Firsts Quote by Erasmus Darwin

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

— Abbie Hoffman

“Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten. The law was: EAT OR BE EATEN”

— Jack London

...eating animals involves an intentional decision to participate in the suffering and death of nonhumans where there is no plausible moral justification.

— Gary L. Francione

“Once upon a time the dominant ethic toward domestic animals, rooted in the demands of husbandry and responding to the fundamental problem of life…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

The wrongfulness, the immorality of eating animal food has been recognized by all mankind during all the conscious life of humanity. Why, then have…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Eating is an agricultural act,' as Wendell Berry famously said. It is also an ecological act, and a political act, too. Though much has…

— Michael Pollan

The major Jewish dietary laws rest on a single premise: Eating meat is a moral compromise. There is a difference between eating a hamburger…

— Harold Kushner

Eating is an environmental act.

— Alice Waters

“This compassion, or sympathy with the pains of others, ought also to extend to the brute creation, as far as our necessities will admit;…

— Erasmus Darwin

Eating is an agricultural act.

— Wendell Berry

“The justifications for eating animals and for not eating them are often identical: we are not them.”

— Johnathan Safran Foer

I hold that such a question can never arise except in a society of cannibals.

— Ayn Rand