Not that I'm against meat eating. But I think we're eating too much. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Human overconsumption is a greater problem than human population growth, and meat eating is a big part of that problem. — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
Meat-eating is condemned by the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Sravakas; if one devours meat out of shamelessness he will always be devoid of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“With meat you consume an animal's fear and curse at the time it gets slaughtered. Beware the silent curse of the unspeaking.” — RESHMA CHEKNATH UMESH Copy Share Image
Consumers are going to have get used to eating less meat - to paying more for better quality meat and eating significantly… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Speak to meat eaters the way you would speak to a wild animal: softly and without any sudden movements.” — Carol J. Adams Copy Share Image
“The results suggest that consumption of total meat is significantly associated with a 9% to 28% increased risk of stroke.” — Kyuwoong Kim Copy Share Image
The whole underside of our society has always been violence and still is. Churches, laws - everybody seems to think that man… — Sam Peckinpah Copy Share Image
You, (my meat-eating friends), put your health at risk – that’s your business. But animal-based diets put the land, the water, the… — Howard Lyman Copy Share Image
“Milk was used in various forms during the summer months; in winter beer or water was used. Bread, cakes, potatoes, and sea… — William Petty Copy Share Image
“Non-meat eaters, especially vegans, have a lower prevalence of hypertension and lower systolic and diastolic blood pressures than meat eaters, largely because… — Paul Appleby Copy Share Image
The kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat eating as if it's a way to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
There is one taboo against meat-eating. It divides Hindus into vegetarians and flesh eaters. There is another taboo which is against beef… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
I agree insofar as we eat too much meat. We're eating about 200 pounds per person per year. That's about 9 ounces… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“the ~25% lower mortality from all other causes (a catch-all category in which the most common cause of death is old age)… — Paul Appleby Copy Share Image
Some meat eaters defend meat eating by pointing out that it is natural: in the wild, animals eat one another. The animals… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
“For specific causes of death, compared with regular meat eaters, low meat eaters had ~30–45% lower mortality from pancreatic cancer, respiratory disease,… — Paul Appleby Copy Share Image
To avoid causing terror to living beings, let the disciple refrain from eating meat... the food of the wise is that which… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
But when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“For all malignant cancers, both fish eaters and vegetarians and vegans combined had significantly lower mortality than regular meat eaters [HR: 0.76… — Paul Appleby Copy Share Image
The American fast food diet and the meat eating habits of the wealthy around the world support a world food system that… — Walden Bello Copy Share Image
We live in a culture that has institutionalized the oppression of animals on at least two levels: in formal structures such as… — Carol J. Adams Copy Share Image
We take these animals and completely violate who they are. We use them, abuse them, and deprive them all their lives…then we… — River Phoenix Copy Share Image
“Although protein deficiency is widespread in poverty-stricken communities and in some nonindustrialized countries, most people in industrialized countries face the opposite problem—protein… — Melissa Bernstein Copy Share Image
“Dr. Jens Kjeldsen-Kragh, M.D., of the Institute of Immunology and Rheumatology at the National Rheumatism Hospital of Oslo, conducted a study about… — H.K. Bakhru Copy Share Image
“The main finding was that vegan and lacto-ovo vegetarian diets were associated with a nearly one-half reduction in risk of type 2… — Serena Tonstad Copy Share Image
“Michael Pollan likens consumer choices to pulling single threads out of a garment. We pull a thread from the garment when we… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“The China Study was conducted over the course of decades by researchers at Cornell and Oxford University. Over six-hundred thousand people in… — Jesse Jacoby Copy Share Image
“I used to be endlessly troubled by meat-eating people who were uneasy with hunters and hunting. ... How can someone suggest that… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
“A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk’s bill, no sharp talon, no… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Food conditions the nature of the mind. Mind guides the thinking. Thinking results in action. Actions lead to commensurate or matching results… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
“The high level of meat and saturated fat consumption in the USA and other high-income countries exceeds nutritional needs and contributes to… — Polly Walker Copy Share Image
“Twenty years ago, the vast majority of persons, as we then wrote, had never tasted a really new-laid egg, and did not… — Lewis Wright Copy Share Image
You take this meat eating. Many people have to kill the animals because of your non-vegetarianism. You are responsible for the death… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
It is true that every being is enjoying life or suffering as a direct result of his or her own past actions.… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
The hardest part of returning to a truly healthy environment may be changing the current totally unsustainable heavy-meat-eating culture of increasing numbers… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image