Meat eating and a compassionate religion do not go hand in…

Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no…

— Ray Bradbury

For science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary.…

— Albert Einstein

“The main finding was that vegan and lacto-ovo vegetarian diets were associated with a nearly one-half reduction in risk of type 2 diabetes compared…

— Serena Tonstad

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

“Non-meat eaters, especially vegans, have a lower prevalence of hypertension and lower systolic and diastolic blood pressures than meat eaters, largely because of differences…

— Paul Appleby

“It's the reason we say "pork" and "beef" instead of "pig" and "cow." Dissection and surgical instruction, like meat-eating, require a carefully maintained set…

— Mary Roach

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

— Carol J. Adams

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

“Michael Pollan likens consumer choices to pulling single threads out of a garment. We pull a thread from the garment when we refuse to…

— Jane Goodall

“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

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

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

— Sharon Gannon