I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the necessity of discharging the duties of a butcher would be so… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Vegetarianism is not implicitly important for the mental progress or the intellectual development, unless it is supposed to be a remedy to… — Franz Bardon Copy Share Image
I understand, of course, that grain-fed meat is not the cause of the world hunger problem-and eating some of it doesn't directly… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
When about 16 Years of Age, I happened to meet with a Book written by one Tryon, recommending a Vegetable Diet. I… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“I remember one bobcat they had in here - now bobcats are an endangered species in this neck of the woods -… — Michael Tobias Copy Share Image
Unless we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is-whether its victim is human or animal-we cannot expect things to be… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“There is no place left for the buffalo to roam. There’s only corn, wheat, and soy. About the only animals that escaped… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Eating meat is a leftover of the greatest brutality [killing]; the transition to vegetarianism is the first and most natural consequence of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Jīvaka, I say that there are three instances in which meat should not be eaten: when it is seen, heard, or suspected… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It is said about Lord Buddha sadaya-hrdaya darsita-pasu-ghatam. He saw the whole human race going to hell by this animal killing. So… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Copy Share Image
Expecting the society to treat you as you treat it is like expecting the lion not to bite you that only because… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We patronize the animals for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We need another and a wiser and a perhaps more mystical concept of animals. — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
Vegans and vegetarians are commonly baited by nonvegetarians with "what if" scenarios that typically have no relevance to or bearing on most… — Joanne Stepaniak Copy Share Image
It seems disingenuous for the intellectual elite of the first world to dwell on the subject of too many babies being born… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Well, then, Otter, of course I don’t like Bundt cake. It has eggs in it. Baby chicken eggs. You don’t see chickens… — TJ Klune Copy Share Image
Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable-the saltwater is also tears; the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature. — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Only a couple of weeks in the country and I was getting dangerously close to becoming what all chefs loathed—a vegetarian.” — Louise Miller Copy Share Image
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