Appetite Quote by Marvin Harris

There is one taboo against meat-eating. It divides Hindus into vegetarians and flesh eaters. There is another taboo which is against beef eating. It…

— B. R. Ambedkar

Since I first went to India twenty some years ago, there's been a palpable change. There's now pizza everywhere, meat is much more popular…

— Neal Barnard

I grew up in India during the 1960s and '70s in a meat-eating Hindu family. Only my mother and my grandparents were vegetarians. The…

— Amitava Kumar

Eating meat is a leftover of the greatest brutality [killing]; the transition to vegetarianism is the first and most natural consequence of enlightenment.

— Leo Tolstoy

India's obsession with food and its cultural importance in nourishing not just the body, but community and spirituality too, goes some way to explaining…

— Melissa Leong

Most people don’t question the practice of eating meat. Many of these people care about animals and the environment, some deeply. But for some…

— Brian Greene

Meat-fetishiser that I was, I used to find willed vegetarianism inexplicable. It was one thing to be a vegetarian because of religious and caste…

— Neel Mukherjee

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 most important part of vegetarianism is the real shift in consciousness that takes place. There is a true correlation between our food choices…

— Peter Burwash

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

“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

The idea of vegetarianism is of immense value; it is based on great reverence for life.

— Rajneesh