Vegetarian health Quotes · Page 2

Your choice of diet can influence your long term health prospects more than any other action you might take.

— C. Everett Koop

I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to…

— Mahatma Gandhi

It does take a little work to be a vegetarian but it's so worth it, oh it's so worth it!

— Tippi Hedren

We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.

— Rachel Carson

My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity.

— Benjamin Franklin

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Martin Luther King taught us all nonviolence. I was told to extend nonviolence to the mother and her calf.

— Dick Gregory

People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's not as bad as mass animal death in a factory.

— Richard Gere

The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our…

— Thomas More

Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury…

— George Bernard Shaw

We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain…

— George Bernard Shaw

The standard four food groups are based on American agricultural lobbies. Why do we have a milk group? Because we have a…

— Marion Nestle

I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened…

— George Bernard Shaw

It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

There's so many vegetarian foods now that are available at the market . The same with drive-throughs. Now, a lot of them…

— Kevin Nealon

Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to moral feeling: By killing, man…

— Leo Tolstoy

“You're thinking I'm one of those wise-ass California vegetarians who is going to tell you that eating a few strips of bacon…

— Scott Adams

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

I have been a vegetarian for about 10 years. And it really was due to the reading that I did. And they…

— Linda Blair

Vegetarianism that is me. I don't eat meat. It's been over 10 years. Actually it's been 11 and a half years and…

— Traci Bingham

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

Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story.

— Mary Tyler Moore

I grew up in cattle country-that's why I became a vegetarian. Meat stinks, for the animals, the environment, and your health.

— K. D. Lang

The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.

— Plato

I've been vegan for about 10 and a half years. It's been all good. I'm obviously much healthier

— Woody Harrelson

My best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet.

— Carl Lewis

One day the world will look upon research upon animals as it now looks upon research on human beings.

— Leonardo da Vinci

If you step back and look at the data, the optimum amount of red meat you eat should be zero.

— Walter Willett

If you visit the killing floor of a slaughterhouse, it will brand your soul for life.

— Howard Lyman

In every respect, vegans appear to enjoy equal or better health in comparison to both vegetarians and non-vegetarians.

— T. Colin Campbell

If you could see or feel the suffering you wouldn't think twice. Give back life. Don't eat meat.

— Kim Basinger

The really great thing about my shoe store is that there's not one dead animal in it.

— Stella McCartney

What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can…

— Jeremy Bentham

If a kid ever realized what was involved in factory farming, they would never touch meat again.

— James Cromwell

Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind.

— Albert Einstein

Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics.

— Peter Singer

Men hunt I think maybe because they have something wrong with their own equipment and they need something else to shoot.

— Pamela Anderson

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

Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.

— John Denver