Animal Quote by Plutarch

Flesh-eating by humans is unnecessary, irrational, anatomically unsound, unhealthy, unhygienic, uneconomic, unaesthetic, unkind and unethical. May I elaborate?

— 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

Eating is perhaps the most direct way we acknowledge or deny the sacredness of the earth.

— Gary Paul Nabhan

When human body itself is made of flesh, where is the need to consume the flesh of birds and animals? You should partake of…

— Sathya Sai Baba

Just as we are what we eat physically, we are also what we consume spiritually.

— Craig Groeschel

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 manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do.

— Rabindranath Tagore

“[..] 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

While eating, our attention should not be focused just on the taste. Imagine our chosen deity or guru is present within us and that…

— Mata Amritanandamayi

Makes sense, the earth is quick to consume the flesh of things that ain't natural.

— Neal Shusterman

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

... the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body…

— Michael Pollan