Character Quote by Gary L. Francione

Vegetarianism should not be anything moral or religious. It is a question of aesthetics: one's sensitivity, one's respect, one's reverence for life.

— Rajneesh

The distinction between meat and other animal products is total nonsense. Vegetarianism is a morally incoherent position. If you regard animals as members of…

— Anonymous

Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes…

— Bill Griffith

As far as being a vegetarian, it's a moral thing, a health thing, a conscious thing - a combination of all. I think it's…

— Gza

“There are some animal advocates who say that to maintain that veganism is the moral baseline is objectionable because it is “judgmental,” or constitutes…

— GaryLFrancione

The kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat eating as if it's a way to care about…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I think vegetarianism is a crucial ethical choice for an individual and a society.

— Bernhard Goetz

By the way, I'm not a vegetarian. I have a lot of respect for people who are vegetarian for religious or ethical reasons.

— Eric Schlosser

I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Our treatment of animals, in every department, is deeply and systematically immoral. Becoming a vegetarian is only the most minimal ethical response to the…

— Colin McGinn

I know lots and lots and lots of vegetarians who think it's perfectly all right to kill animals for food to eat, but don't…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

There is, however, a moral basis for the vegetarian diet for which the indeterminate value of an animal's life takes on irrelevance. And that…

— Howard Lyman