Eating Quote by 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

Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by reason of…

— Plutarch

To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify luxury and tickle callous…

— George Cheyne

...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

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

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

Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.

— Benjamin Franklin

“There followed a fascinating discussion on moral eating habits and the obligation, duty, or notion of trying to avoid eating other people or removing…

— Laura K Anderson

“[..] the very open-endedness of human appetite is responsible for both our savagery and civility, since the creature that conceive of eating anything (including,…

— Michael Pollan

“Morally it may be better to not kill any creature for their flesh, but biologically, meat was one of the greatest factors involved in…

— Abhijit Naskar

...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

There is not a single argument nor a single fact that can be offered in favour of flesh eating that cannot be offered, with…

— Herbert M. Shelton