I grew up in India during the 1960s and '70s in a…

“Speak to meat eaters the way you would speak to a wild animal: softly and without any sudden movements.”

— Carol J. Adams

There is one taboo against meat-eating. It divides Hindus into vegetarians and flesh eaters. There is another taboo which is against beef eating. It…

— B. R. Ambedkar

Human overconsumption is a greater problem than human population growth, and meat eating is a big part of that problem.

— Sharon Gannon

Some meat eaters defend meat eating by pointing out that it is natural: in the wild, animals eat one another. The animals that end…

— Sharon Gannon

While self-interest arising from the enjoyment of meat eating is obviously one reason for its entrenchment, and inertia another, a process of language usage…

— Carol J. Adams

“We can eat meat, it tastes good, but it’s very costly considering the land we have to use to produce the plants needed to…

— Sven-Erik Jacobsen

It is true that every being is enjoying life or suffering as a direct result of his or her own past actions. The animals…

— Sharon Gannon

The hardest part of returning to a truly healthy environment may be changing the current totally unsustainable heavy-meat-eating culture of increasing numbers of people…

— Jane Goodall

Food conditions the nature of the mind. Mind guides the thinking. Thinking results in action. Actions lead to commensurate or matching results and effects.…

— Sathya Sai Baba

Meat-eating is condemned by the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Sravakas; if one devours meat out of shamelessness he will always be devoid of sense.

— Gautama Buddha

“Have you seen the state of some of these vegetarians? They look like they’re going to drop down dead any minute. We didn’t fight…

— Karl Wiggins

Elsewhere the paper notes that vegetarians and vegans (including athletes) 'meet and exceed requirements' for protein. And, to render the whole we-should-worry-about-getting-enough-protein-and-therefore-eat-meat idea even…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

When are we left-wingers going to learn that we are losing the cultural and political battle with conservatives because we are fractured into narcissistic…

— Sherman Alexie

I believe if the viewing of slaughter was required to eat meat, most folks would become vegetarians.

— Howard Lyman

“Twenty years ago, the vast majority of persons, as we then wrote, had never tasted a really new-laid egg, and did not know what…

— Lewis Wright