Ethics Quote by Abhijit Naskar

...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state

— Alphonse de Lamartine

...eating animals involves an intentional decision to participate in the suffering and death of nonhumans where there is no plausible moral justification.

— Gary L. Francione

“The unchallenged assumption is that humans may use animals for their own purposes, and they may raise and kill them to satisfy their preference…

— Peter Singer

There is this really intimate connection that people have with the animals they're going to eat. A lot of people who eat meat say…

— Novella Carpenter

Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to moral feeling: By killing, man suppresses in…

— Leo Tolstoy

“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely…

— Leo Tolstoy

“But farm workers kill animals because they can support their families by doing so, whereas we order the killing for reasons that have never…

— B.R. Myers

“Is it wrong to eat meat or to use animals for scientific research?”

— Open University

Cruelty...prefers abstraction. Some have tried to resolved this gap by hunting or butchering an animal themselves, as if those experiences might somehow legitimize the…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Your perception of meat being nice is blurred by the likely fact that you are excluded from participating in, or even witnessing the untimely…

— Mango Wodzak

We are opposed to all cruelty, so as advocates of non-violence, opponents of oppression, people who abhor the cruelty inherent in slaughtering we say…

— Ingrid Newkirk

Eating meat is a leftover of the greatest brutality [killing]; the transition to vegetarianism is the first and most natural consequence of enlightenment.

— Leo Tolstoy