Agony Quote by George Cheyne

I cannot find any great difference, on the basis of natural reason and equity only, between feeding on human flesh and feeding on animal…

— George Cheyne

Flesh-eating by humans is unnecessary, irrational, anatomically unsound, unhealthy, unhygienic, uneconomic, unaesthetic, unkind and unethical. May I elaborate?

— Helen and Scott Nearing

Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to moral feeling: By killing, man suppresses in…

— Leo Tolstoy

We are opposed to all cruelty, so as advocates of non-violence, opponents of oppression, people who abhor the cruelty inherent in slaughtering we say…

— Ingrid Newkirk

...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state

— Alphonse de Lamartine

The animals you eat are not those who devour others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your pattern. You…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

Every individual who eats flesh food, whether an animal is killed expressely for him or not, is supporting the trade of slaughtering and contributing…

— Philip Kapleau

I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings…

— Mahatma Gandhi

It has been well said that the food one consumes determines one's thoughts. By eating the flesh of various animals, the qualities of these…

— Sathya Sai Baba

“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

When human body itself is made of flesh, where is the need to consume the flesh of birds and animals? You should partake of…

— Sathya Sai Baba