Fishing is a pleasure of retirement, yet the angler has the power to let the fish live or die. — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“Hell, a pig had most humans beat, smarter than small children, and we didn't eat those but maybe we should.” — Kelly J. Cogswell Copy Share Image
I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Now there is apparently a causal link between heroin addiction and vegetarianism. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Ethical vegetarians eat only plant-based food in order to show compassion toward animals and other humans and to benefit the planet.” — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a… — Francis of Assisi 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
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
I nearly always find, when I ask a vegetarian if he is a socialist, or a socialist if he is a vegetarian,… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
“Vegetarianism is always the product of scarcity, of religion, or of ideology, including nutritional fads and fashions.” — Jeffrey Steingarten Copy Share Image
When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power,… — River Phoenix Copy Share Image
“My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chided for my singularity, but, with this lighter repast, I… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The American fast food diet and the meat eating habits of the wealthy around the world support a world food system that… — Walden Bello Copy Share Image
“For all the types of pain that can lead to suffering there is a solution. Through opening our hearts with compassion to… — Sebastian Pole Copy Share Image
The first man . . . ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“There is convincing evidence that vegetarians have lower rates of coronary heart disease, largely explained by low LDL cholesterol, probable lower rales… — Gary E. Fraser Copy Share Image
Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass them, don't… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
It is all very well for 2% of the population to live in a monastic state of meatlessness while everyone else gorges… — Tristram Stuart Copy Share Image
...Ethics has not only to do with mankind but with the animal creation as well. This is witnessed in the purpose of… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“Some animal rights activists are demanding vegetarianism, even veganism now, or nothing. But since only 4 or 5 percent of Americans claim… — Steven Wise Copy Share Image
“People said things to me like "They're just animals. They're here for our use." I had a visceral reaction to that phrase,… — Elizabeth Kim Copy Share Image
“Scientific studies and government records suggest that virtually all (upwards of 95 percent of) chickens become infected with E. coli (an indicator… — Jonathan Safran Foer 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
When a human kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice. Man prays for mercy, but is… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“The plea for ethical veganism, which rejects the treatment of birds and other animals as a food source or other commodity, is… — Karen Davis Copy Share Image
“the most colourful characters of the historical advocates of vegetarianism was George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950). When Shaw decided to eliminate meat from… — Vesanto Melina Copy Share Image
We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do. There are… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I think vegetarianism is a crucial ethical choice for an individual and a society. — Bernhard Goetz Copy Share Image
When it's all said and done we will lose a piece to a carnivorous vegetarian — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
Some say vegetarianism is an alternative diet, but it is the original diet, the plan designed by God. — James Marcus Copy Share Image
in eating ecology love murder vegan vegetarianism flesh eating is unprovoked murder. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The salvation of birds and beasts, oneself included - this is the object of Shakyamuni's religious austerities. — Ikkyu Copy Share Image
Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger. — John Denver Copy Share Image
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