With meat you consume an animal's fear and curse at the…

A sound of cornered-animal fear and hate and surrender and defiance . . . like the last sound the treed and shot and falling…

— Ken Kesey

“If the fact that brutes abstract not be made the distinguishing property of that sort of animal, I fear a great many of those…

— Bishop Berkeley

“There are five pounds of undigested red meat in the average American’s gut. The digestive system was not built for this and can’t cope…

— Timothy Pyke

Whatever I decide will not work. It's what people want that will work. So no one decided whether you become a vegetarian or anything…

— Jacque Fresco

“May our evergrowing desire for endless developments and extra comforts shall not force Nature Mama's ever protective hands into throttling our necks to death.”

— RESHMA CHEKNATH UMESH

“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