Vegetarian health Quotes · Page 2

Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.

— John Denver

I've been vegan for about 10 and a half years. It's been all good. I'm obviously much healthier

— Woody Harrelson

The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.

— Plato

I grew up in cattle country-that's why I became a vegetarian. Meat stinks, for the animals, the environment, and your health.

— K. D. Lang

If you could see or feel the suffering you wouldn't think twice. Give back life. Don't eat meat.

— Kim Basinger

In every respect, vegans appear to enjoy equal or better health in comparison to both vegetarians and non-vegetarians.

— T. Colin Campbell

If you visit the killing floor of a slaughterhouse, it will brand your soul for life.

— Howard Lyman

If you step back and look at the data, the optimum amount of red meat you eat should be zero.

— Walter Willett

There's so many vegetarian foods now that are available at the market . The same with drive-throughs. Now, a lot of them…

— Kevin Nealon

It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened…

— George Bernard Shaw

I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for…

— Mahatma Gandhi

It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes.…

— Dalai Lama

Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury…

— George Bernard Shaw

The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our…

— Thomas More

I think there will come a time when civilized people will look back in horror on our generation and the ones that…

— Dennis Weaver

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

— Leo Tolstoy

Today it is considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form of life as being the serious demand of a…

— Albert Schweitzer

In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be, but now we cannot stand the thought…

— H. G. Wells

All red meat contains saturated fat. There is no such thing as truly lean meat. Trimming away the edge ring of fat…

— Michael Klaper

Nothing's changed my life more. I feel better about myself as a person, being conscious and responsible for my actions and I…

— Alicia Silverstone

One day the world will look upon research upon animals as it now looks upon research on human beings.

— Leonardo da Vinci

My best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet.

— Carl Lewis

People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's not as bad as mass animal death in a factory.

— Richard Gere

Martin Luther King taught us all nonviolence. I was told to extend nonviolence to the mother and her calf.

— Dick Gregory

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity.

— Benjamin Franklin

We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.

— Rachel Carson

Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story.

— Mary Tyler Moore

I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

— George Bernard Shaw

I sometimes think, would I drink the milk from the breast of a woman I don't know? No. So I think, why…

— Devon Aoki

Some say vegetarianism is an alternative diet, but it is the original diet, the plan designed by God.

— James Marcus

Once people start introducing animal products into their diet, that's when the mischief starts.

— T. Colin Campbell

The trans fatty acids (found in animal products and cooked oils) are a factor in breast cancer.

— Edward Martin

It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.

— Albert Schweitzer

It does take a little work to be a vegetarian but it's so worth it, oh it's so worth it!

— Tippi Hedren

I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Your choice of diet can influence your long term health prospects more than any other action you might take.

— C. Everett Koop

I don't eat meat, fish, or eggs. I was never a big meat-eater, but I've got more energy now.

— Shania Twain