Neal Barnard

If we studied human beings which can include human genes, human blood samples, and human behavior, then you can leave the animals…

— Neal Barnard

If some people think, "Why am I eating a dead bird soaked in poop?" I think if some people get disgusted by…

— Neal Barnard

Medicine is often conservative and slow to incorporate something that wasn't there before and that we're afraid people are going to laugh…

— Neal Barnard

It's much better to say, "If the herd is running, I'm running with those guys." And humans have herd mentality.

— Neal Barnard

The thinnest people on the planet are those who eat the most carbohydrates.

— Neal Barnard

People do lose weight on an Atkins diet. The reason they lose weight is because of calorie reduction. If a person's caloric…

— Neal Barnard

Overall, our population is in the worst shape it's ever been. Children are in terrible shape. We have absolutely unprecedented numbers of…

— Neal Barnard

Dogs have a sense of smell much greater than ours and they're much faster than we are. We have fairly dull senses,…

— Neal Barnard

The Stone Age gave us arrow heads and eventually knives, and that allowed us to kill animals in ways you couldn't before,…

— Neal Barnard

I thought - being a musician doesn't help your medical credibility really. Although I started to rethink that when I learned that…

— Neal Barnard

It doesn't do a lot of good for your health to move from red meat to white meat, but it gets you…

— Neal Barnard

I think we have to do everything that's useful. We're doctors. Our job is to tell the truth. And it doesn't have…

— Neal Barnard

I was aware of what animals go through because I had driven animals to slaughter and I'd killed animals. And I was…

— Neal Barnard

A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do.

— Neal Barnard

I have been following a vegan diet now since the 1980s, and find it not only healthier, but also much more attractive…

— Neal Barnard

If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people,' you'd better live real close to a real good hospital.

— Neal Barnard

If a dog happens to catch a rabbit or another animal, it can very easily remove the hide. If a cat catches…

— Neal Barnard

Since I first went to India twenty some years ago, there's been a palpable change. There's now pizza everywhere, meat is much…

— Neal Barnard

Chimpanzees will eat a little bit of meat. But, they never eat dairy products, and no other animal would do that.

— Neal Barnard

Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw…

— Neal Barnard

While it's certainly true that many people think that dairy doesn't have a cost to the animal, it's because they never went…

— Neal Barnard

Another advantage of avoiding sodas is that you will avoid the caffeine that is in many of them. Caffeine is a weak…

— Neal Barnard

“The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile…

— Neal Barnard

In my own life, I decided to leave meat off my plate in medical school, but was a bit slow to realise…

— Neal Barnard

The important thing is that while heroin and cocaine and tobacco and every drug and junk food cause dopamine release, there are…

— Neal Barnard