Experience Quote by Masha Gessen

“To here in Siberia, we were brought without tickets, stuffed into cattle cars like livestock. We were given water and at two-day intervals, warm…

— Melānija Vanaga

I became a vegetarian after I became aware of factory farming and slaughterhouses and the torture and inhumane handling of all these animals.

— Kevin Nealon

“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

“Many a survivor of a plane crash who is or was against cannibalism and had never eaten human flesh once found themselves in a…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When I was 9 or 10 years old, my dad took me over to a neighboring farm to help get stuff for the meal.…

— Sarah Silverman

I became a vegetarian, and I carried around a suitcase full of vitamins and special drinks everywhere I went.

— Cat Stevens

“One traveler to the Congo came on a deserted town where a fifteen-foot boa constrictor was dining on smallpox victims’ flesh, and on another…

— Adam Hochschild

“Eating organs, in 1943, could degrade one’s social standing. Americans preferred bland preparations of muscle meat partly because for as long as they could…

— Mary Roach

In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do..

— Cesar Chavez

“Yosef Tversky, the son of a rabbi, despised religion and loved Russian literature, and found a great deal of amusement in what came out…

— Michael Lewis

“The good news is that you just need a bit of compassion to become vegetarian, and this is something widely found in the human…

— Armand Chauvel

My mother saved hundreds of animals in her life. Wherever she encountered and injured or needy or abandoned animal, she brought it home.

— Cheryl Strayed