“I treat vegetarianism as a phase that might any second end without warning.” — Amit Chaudhuri Copy Share Image
Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it. — Doris Day Copy Share Image
Please stop killing animals. They do not belong to you. They belong to the earth and to the future. — Angelique Curran Copy Share Image
Discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“The repugnance to animal food is not the effect of experience, but it is instinct.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The human body has no more need for cows' milk than it does for dogs' milk, horses' milk, or giraffes' milk. — Michael Klaper Copy Share Image
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness. — Robert Hutchinson Copy Share Image
I wouldn't touch a hot dog unless you put a condom on it! You realize that the job of a hot dog… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Among the noblest in the land - Though man may count himself the least - That man I honor and revere, Who… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Plant life instead of animal food is the keystone of regeneration. Jesus used bread instead of flesh and wine in place of… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
I have lived temperately, eating little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In every country in the world, killing human beings is condemned. The Buddhist precept of non-killing extends even further, to include all… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
There used to be a time - it isn't so much the case now - that vegetarianism was some kind of religion,… — Yotam Ottolenghi Copy Share Image
I became a vegetarian because I was persuaded that life is as valid for other creatures as it is for humans. I… — Helen and Scott Nearing Copy Share Image
I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“But this practice [vegetarianism], in which youthful love of austerity finds charm, calls for attentions more complicated than those of culinary refinement… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
To be nonviolent to human beings and to be a killer or enemy of the poor animals is Satan's philosophy. In this… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Copy Share Image
The biblical case for vegetarianism does not rest on the view that killing may never be allowable in the eyes of God,… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
Vegetarians, dropping meat, tend to fill up with too much starch. This leaves them no more healthy than meat-eaters, with constipation, indigestion,… — Helen and Scott Nearing Copy Share Image
Pythagoras was the first to introduce vegetarianism to the West. It is of profound depth for man to learn how to live… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I think there will come a time when civilized people will look back in horror on our generation and the ones that… — Dennis Weaver Copy Share Image
Until we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is - whether its victim is human or animal - we cannot… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard… — George Bernard Shaw 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
It is the other way round: food cannot make you spiritual, but if you are spiritual your food habits will change. Eating… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“As discussed earlier, humans who lack the reflective self-awareness of normal adults, such as those with particular forms of amnesia or very… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
“It is difficult to ascertain what role these articles play in marginalizing the vegetarian experience when there are so many more pressing… — Sunaura Taylor 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
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
... man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows. I… — Mahatma Gandhi 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
My take is that the optimal approach to food, for health and ethical reasons, may be vegetarianism. — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
A woman gains status when she refuses to see anything killed to be put on her back. Then she’s truly beautiful. — Doris Day Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
See all living beings as your father or mother, and love them as if you were their child — Atisa Copy Share Image
Your choice of diet can influence your long term health prospects more than any other action you might take. — C. Everett Koop Copy Share Image
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