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“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

“The mass of the population before the modern era rarely ate meat as the mass of the peasantry rarely do in underdeveloped countries today.…

— Malcolm Hamilton

“Dr. Jens Kjeldsen-Kragh, M.D., of the Institute of Immunology and Rheumatology at the National Rheumatism Hospital of Oslo, conducted a study about the usefulness…

— H.K. Bakhru

“a pig produces about four times as much solid waste as an average person, a typical CAFO [Concentrated Animal Feed Operation] of 5000 pigs…

— Anonymous

“Milk was used in various forms during the summer months; in winter beer or water was used. Bread, cakes, potatoes, and sea food were…

— William Petty

“For specific causes of death, compared with regular meat eaters, low meat eaters had ~30–45% lower mortality from pancreatic cancer, respiratory disease, and all…

— Paul Appleby

“The high level of meat and saturated fat consumption in the USA and other high-income countries exceeds nutritional needs and contributes to high rates…

— Polly Walker

“the ~25% lower mortality from all other causes (a catch-all category in which the most common cause of death is old age) in low…

— Paul Appleby

“A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk’s bill, no sharp talon, no roughness of…

— Plutarch

“Although protein deficiency is widespread in poverty-stricken communities and in some nonindustrialized countries, most people in industrialized countries face the opposite problem—protein excess. The…

— Melissa Bernstein

“The results suggest that consumption of total meat is significantly associated with a 9% to 28% increased risk of stroke.”

— Kyuwoong Kim

“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

“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

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

— Carol J. Adams

“There is general agreement that red meat consumption increases the risk of colon or colorectal cancer. This was the only food association with cancer…

— Gary E. Fraser