These days, I'm a hypocritical, philosophical vegetarian. Vegetarianism would be the right choice, but I really, really love meat. — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian. We feel better about ourselves and better about the animals, knowing we're not… — Linda McCartney 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
The factory farm is . . . an obvious moral evil so sickening and horrendous. . . All this so we can… — Matthew Scully 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
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
I became a vegetarian at 15. I was always an animal lover and, as a teenager, became increasingly uncomfortable with the idea… — Laura Mennell Copy Share Image
“I've learned so much from my ups and downs as a life long vegan. I'm really excited to share my experiences and… — Ursula Escher Copy Share Image
Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt… — Berkeley Breathed 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
“To be a vegetarian is to disagree — to disagree with the course of things today. Starvation, world hunger, cruelty, waste, wars… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“From another visitor to Yasnaya Polyana we learn that Tolstoy and his two daughters are vegetarians. The young countesses do not object… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
No vegetarian has been able to achieve a single Nobel prize. It is a clear-cut condemnation of vegetarianism. Why do all the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I think of veganism humbly and holistically. It's about taking personal responsibility in a world so full of needless suffering. It's challenging… — Michael Greger Copy Share Image
“I made the choice to be vegan because I will not eat (or wear, or use) anything that could have an emotional… — Rai Aren Copy Share Image
Hindus and Westerners alike see in the meat-eating taboos of India a triumph of morals over appetite. This is a dangerous misrepresentation… — Marvin Harris Copy Share Image
“These folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they will not depart we… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
If you declare that you are naturally designed for such a diet, then first kill for yourself what you want to eat.… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“Only a couple of weeks in the country and I was getting dangerously close to becoming what all chefs loathed—a vegetarian.” — Louise Miller Copy Share Image
Vegetarianism is a conscious effort, a deliberate effort, to get out of the heaviness that keeps you tethered to the earth so… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
But ...meat eating in any form, in any manner, and in any place is unconditionally and once and for all prohibited ...Meat… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Animals are nicer than humans and they're conscious beings. If you stick your grandmother in an oven, she will probably be tasty.… — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
When people ask me why I don't eat meat or any other animal products, I say, 'Because they are unhealthy and they… — Casey Affleck Copy Share Image
Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I played around with vegetarianism back in the '70s. One thing, my physiology just got to have animal protein. I get hypoglycemic,… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Basically we should stop doing those things that are destructive to the environment, other creatures, and ourselves and figure out new ways… — Moby Copy Share Image
If there would come a voice from God saying, 'I'm against vegetarianism!' I would say, 'Well, I am for it!' This is… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
In order to satisfy one human stomach, so many lives are taken away. We must promote vegetarianism. It is extremely important. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
To be a vegetarian is to disagree - to disagree with the course of things today... starvation, cruelty - we must make… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
There is not a single argument nor a single fact that can be offered in favour of flesh eating that cannot be… — Herbert M. Shelton Copy Share Image
I am not a vegetarian. For some time, I tried to be a semi-vegetarian, eating only fish, birds, and no red meat,… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Various philosophers and religious leaders tried to convince their disciples and followers that animals are nothing more than machines without a soul,… — Isaac Bashevis Singer 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
Vegetarianism functioned as a purification. When you eat animals you are more under the law of necessity. You are heavy, you gravitate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anyone familiar with the numerous accounts of the Buddha's extraordinary compassion and reverence for living beings - for example his insistence that… — Philip Kapleau 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
I think the mother of all arguments against eating meat now is the climate change argument. Methane is a much more powerful… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
