Meat-eating orchids forgive no one just yet.

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

— Sharon Gannon

I grew up in India during the 1960s and '70s in a meat-eating Hindu family. Only my mother and my grandparents were vegetarians. The…

— Amitava Kumar

“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

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