I also became a vegetarian when I was 14 because I realized eating animals was cruel. — Julia Hill Copy Share Image
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid. — Isaiah Copy Share Image
“The justifications for eating animals and for not eating them are often identical: we are not them.” — Johnathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“why wouldn’t I eat a dog I’d never met? Or more to the point, what justification might I have for sparing dogs… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I'll never stop eating animals, I'm sure, but I do think that for the benefit of everyone, the time has come to… — Mark Bittman Copy Share Image
When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Killing or eating animals is an act of beasts. Stirs within the devil. Sorry. It spurs evil. Thus is truth - at… — Fakeer Ishavardas Copy Share Image
“There is something about eating animals that tends to polarize: never eat them or never sincerely question eating them; become an activist… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Feeding plants to animals then eating the animals is like filtering water through a sewer then drinking it. — Bruce Friedrich Copy Share Image
If I'm training I'm cutting weight for a competition. I'm hard. I'm pretty much eating animal protein and that's it. No rice,… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, the controversy around PETA may have less to do with the organization than with those of us who stand in judgment… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Whatever my own practice may be, I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race, in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Way back in the 1970s, I was eating a steak, and I looked down, and for the first time it suddenly looked… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
Almost always when I told someone I was writing a book about "eating animals", they assumed, even without knowing anything about my… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Have you ever known an alcoholic, a cigarette smoker, or a heroin user to be rational when it came to alcohol, cigarettes,… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I don't hold animals superior or even equal to humans. The whole case for behaving decently to animals rests on the fact… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
“The people come to understand that wealth is not the fruit of labour but the result of organised, protected robbery. Rich people… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
As soon as I realized that I didn't need meat to survive or to be in good health, I began to see… — Cloris Leachman Copy Share Image
“All vegans and vegetarians have heard it: “But what about the plants? What about their feelings? They feel pain, too. Don’t you… — Mikko Alanne Copy Share Image
The wrongfulness, the immorality of eating animal food has been recognized by all mankind during all the conscious life of humanity. Why,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If a man can control his body and mind and thereby refrains from eating animal flesh and wearing animal products, I say… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
'Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“Given that eating animals is in absolutely no way necessary for my family — unlike some in the world, we have easy… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I love people and animals so my mission is to get people healthier by not eating animals or animal products. — Tabitha Brown Copy Share Image
The dangers of eating animal products occur after the age of reproduction. If people developed cardiovascular disease that was fatal by the… — Neal Barnard Copy Share Image
Some people feel that humans have a right to eat other animals but not to trash the earth. They may choose veganism… — Karen Dawn Copy Share Image
Cruelty...prefers abstraction. Some have tried to resolved this gap by hunting or butchering an animal themselves, as if those experiences might somehow… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
If we are not given the option to live without violence, we are given the choice to center our meals around harvest… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore, or even just shruggingly accept things like… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Aspects that we consider normal today could very well be repugnant in the future - eating animals, for one thing, or abundant… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Ninety-nine percent of all land animals eaten or used to produce milk and eggs in the United States are factory farmed. So… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Food matters and animals matter and eating animals matters even more. The question of eating animals is ultimately driven by our intuitions… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Even as a child, I felt very guilty about eating animals and never knew that there was something to do about it.… — Mayim Bialik Copy Share Image
It's very interesting to blur the line between eating human beings and eating animals, because I do think people should think more… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
I just realized that if it's really compassion that drives you, maybe it's not enough just to stop eating animals but you… — Patrik Baboumian Copy Share Image
Vegetarians have been around for a very long time - Pythagoreans forbade eating animals more than 2,500 years ago - but even… — Tristram Stuart Copy Share Image
