“Speak to meat eaters the way you would speak to a wild animal: softly and without any sudden movements.” — Carol J. Adams Copy Share Image
Human overconsumption is a greater problem than human population growth, and meat eating is a big part of that problem. — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
Meat-eating is condemned by the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Sravakas; if one devours meat out of shamelessness he will always be devoid of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
There is one taboo against meat-eating. It divides Hindus into vegetarians and flesh eaters. There is another taboo which is against beef… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
“Non-meat eaters, especially vegans, have a lower prevalence of hypertension and lower systolic and diastolic blood pressures than meat eaters, largely because… — Paul Appleby Copy Share Image
“the ~25% lower mortality from all other causes (a catch-all category in which the most common cause of death is old age)… — Paul Appleby Copy Share Image
“With meat you consume an animal's fear and curse at the time it gets slaughtered. Beware the silent curse of the unspeaking.” — RESHMA CHEKNATH UMESH Copy Share Image
“Twenty years ago, the vast majority of persons, as we then wrote, had never tasted a really new-laid egg, and did not… — Lewis Wright Copy Share Image
“It's the reason we say "pork" and "beef" instead of "pig" and "cow." Dissection and surgical instruction, like meat-eating, require a carefully… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“Milk was used in various forms during the summer months; in winter beer or water was used. Bread, cakes, potatoes, and sea… — William Petty Copy Share Image
But when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We live in a culture that has institutionalized the oppression of animals on at least two levels: in formal structures such as… — Carol J. Adams Copy Share Image
Food conditions the nature of the mind. Mind guides the thinking. Thinking results in action. Actions lead to commensurate or matching results… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
“The high level of meat and saturated fat consumption in the USA and other high-income countries exceeds nutritional needs and contributes to… — Polly Walker Copy Share Image
You take this meat eating. Many people have to kill the animals because of your non-vegetarianism. You are responsible for the death… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
The hardest part of returning to a truly healthy environment may be changing the current totally unsustainable heavy-meat-eating culture of increasing numbers… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
It is true that every being is enjoying life or suffering as a direct result of his or her own past actions.… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
Some meat eaters defend meat eating by pointing out that it is natural: in the wild, animals eat one another. The animals… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
“For specific causes of death, compared with regular meat eaters, low meat eaters had ~30–45% lower mortality from pancreatic cancer, respiratory disease,… — Paul Appleby Copy Share Image
To avoid causing terror to living beings, let the disciple refrain from eating meat... the food of the wise is that which… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Although protein deficiency is widespread in poverty-stricken communities and in some nonindustrialized countries, most people in industrialized countries face the opposite problem—protein… — Melissa Bernstein Copy Share Image
“Did you know... ...that it is entirely possible to disagree with BOTH self-proclaimed nationalists and anti-nationals, BOTH right-wing and left-wing hardcores, BOTH… — Dr. Deepak S. Hiwale aka 'Dr Dee Copy Share Image
While self-interest arising from the enjoyment of meat eating is obviously one reason for its entrenchment, and inertia another, a process of… — Carol J. Adams Copy Share Image
If you like eating meat but want to eat ethically, this is the book for you. From the hard-headed, clear-eyed, and sympathetic… — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
“Bread, however, is their chief food. It is cheap; they like it; it comes into the house ready cooked, it is always… — Maud Pember Reeves Copy Share Image
“The main finding was that vegan and lacto-ovo vegetarian diets were associated with a nearly one-half reduction in risk of type 2… — Serena Tonstad Copy Share Image
“Michael Pollan likens consumer choices to pulling single threads out of a garment. We pull a thread from the garment when we… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk’s bill, no sharp talon, no… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“The results suggest that consumption of total meat is significantly associated with a 9% to 28% increased risk of stroke.” — Kyuwoong Kim Copy Share Image
I grew up in India during the 1960s and '70s in a meat-eating Hindu family. Only my mother and my grandparents were… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
But ...meat eating in any form, in any manner, and in any place is unconditionally and once and for all prohibited ...Meat… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
Meat is a mighty contributor to climate change and other environmental problems. The amount of meat we're eating is one of the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“We can eat meat, it tastes good, but it’s very costly considering the land we have to use to produce the plants… — Sven-Erik Jacobsen Copy Share Image
By eating meat we share responsibility for causing climate change, the destruction of our forests, and the poisoning of our air and… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“The China Study was conducted over the course of decades by researchers at Cornell and Oxford University. Over six-hundred thousand people in… — Jesse Jacoby Copy Share Image
Not that I'm against meat eating. But I think we're eating too much. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
![“To avoid causing terror to living beings, let the disciple refrain from eating meat... the food of the wise is that which is consumed by the sadhus [holymen]; it does not consist of meat... There may be some foolish people in the future who will say that I permitted meat-eating and that I partook…” quote by Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/688/gautama-buddha-163_consumed_to-avoid-causing-terror-to-living-beings_1575051.jpg)
