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title: "1 Meat Eaters Quotes By Helen and Scott Nearing"
description: "1 Meat Eaters quotes by Helen and Scott Nearing. Plus more from Helen and Scott Nearing and more Meat Eaters sayings from other authors."
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> [Vegetarians, dropping meat, tend to fill up with too much starch. This leaves them no more healthy than meat-eaters, with constipation, indigestion, colds, catarrhs, coughs and chest complaints to plague them. Eating sparingly of breads, cakes, crackers, cookies, macaroni, spaghetti,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-and-scott-nearing/vegetarians-dropping-meat-tend-to-fill-up-with-too-much-starch-this/)

Helen and Scott Nearing

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## More by Helen and Scott Nearing

> [Life is enriched by aspiration and effort, rather than by acquisition and accumulation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-and-scott-nearing/life-is-enriched-by-aspiration-and-effort-rather-than-by-acquisition/)

Helen and Scott Nearing

> [Vegetarians, dropping meat, tend to fill up with too much starch. This leaves them no more healthy than meat-eaters, with constipation, indigestion, colds, catarrhs,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-and-scott-nearing/vegetarians-dropping-meat-tend-to-fill-up-with-too-much-starch-this/)

Helen and Scott Nearing

> [I became a vegetarian because I was persuaded that life is as valid for other creatures as it is for humans. I do not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-and-scott-nearing/i-became-a-vegetarian-because-i-was-persuaded-that-life-is-as-valid/)

Helen and Scott Nearing

> [Flesh-eating by humans is unnecessary, irrational, anatomically unsound, unhealthy, unhygienic, uneconomic, unaesthetic, unkind and unethical. May I elaborate?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-and-scott-nearing/flesh-eating-by-humans-is-unnecessary-irrational-anatomically-unsound/)

Helen and Scott Nearing

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