Flesh Quote by Gary L. Francione

“Even if plants were sentient, veganism would still be a moral imperative given that it takes many pounds of plants to produce one pound of flesh.”

Gary L. Francione

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Flesh Given Ifs Imperatives Moral Plant Pounds Produce Stills Veganism

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It costs us so little to go vegan. It costs animals so much if we don't.

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The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the…

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If Jesus is the Son of God in human flesh, He's one of a kind of the 13 billions of people who have ever lived.

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I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

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I separated the joints, the arm joints, the leg joints, and had to do two boilings. I think I used four boxes of Soilex…

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If you like I'll be furious flesh elemental, or- changing to tones that the sunset arouses- if you like- I'll be extraordinary gentle, not…

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Flesh forgets. Bone remembers.

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For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh.

Gautama Buddha