Change Quote by 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

Hindus and Westerners alike see in the meat-eating taboos of India a triumph of morals over appetite. This is a dangerous misrepresentation of cultural…

— Marvin Harris

India introduced Britain to vegetarianism - see Tristram Stuart's excellent first book on this - and it is possible, indeed all too easy, to…

— Neel Mukherjee

India is mostly vegetarian, and I think that will be crucial to changing the world. I think the United States is lost.

— Bernhard Goetz

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

Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind.

— Albert Einstein

There used to be a time - it isn't so much the case now - that vegetarianism was some kind of religion, and either…

— Yotam Ottolenghi

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

It is astounding how evolved and progressed India has become. It is holding on to its extraordinary rich culture and becoming global and Western…

— Kenneth Cole

Indian food has been huge in the UK forever and ever, but that's because it has a historical rooting. America, I think is really…

— Aarti Sequeira

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

I became a vegetarian 55 years ago, and I think it's one of the more important behavioral changes I ever took. The more I…

— John Elkington