Accepted Quote by Jane Goodall

Our ancestors were eating meat over 2.5 million years ago. We mainly ate meat, fish, fruits, vegetables and nuts. We have to assume our…

— Lionel Tiger

Growing up, our meals consisted primarily of vegetables, and then we had small amounts of meat.

— Damaris Phillips

“First, Genesis 1:29–3015 teaches that man and animals were originally vegetarian (before Adam’s sin). How do we know this for sure? Humans weren’t told…

— Ken Ham

“It was simple enough: Plants eat sunlight, herbivores eat plants, carnivores eat herbivores, “and so on,” he wrote, “until we reach an animal which…

— William Stolzenburg

Vegetarians have been around for a very long time - Pythagoreans forbade eating animals more than 2,500 years ago - but even as the…

— Tristram Stuart

While arguments rage about plant- versus meat-based diets, new technologies will soon make them irrelevant. Before long, most of our food will come neither…

— George Monbiot

Out of the thirty thousand types of edible plants thought to exist on Earth, just eleven—corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley,…

— Bill Bryson

As humans, we do get to choose what we eat, and when we choose to eat a plant, we are eating (i.e., harming) just…

— Sharon Gannon

There is no doubt that human evolution has been linked to meat in many fundamental ways. Our digestive tract is not one of obligatory…

— Vaclav Smil

In fact, we would know ourselves that we are not meant to be meat eaters, and we would not have allowed ourselves to become…

— Sharon Gannon

Agriculture probably required a far greater discipline than did any form of food collecting. Seeds had to be planted at certain seasons, some protection…

— Charles Heiser

If we want to consider the sanctity of life in deciding what to eat, the choice is clear. Eating a plant based diet causes…

— Sharon Gannon