The
beef industry has contributed to more American deaths
than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters,
and all automobile accidents combined. If beef is
your idea of "real food for real people" you'd better
live real close to a real good hospital.
-- Neal Barnard, M.D.
If
you could see or feel the suffering you wouldn't think
twice. Give back life. Don't eat meat.
-- Kim Basinger
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The
American fast food diet and the meat eating
habits of the wealthy around the world support
a world food system that diverts food resources
from the hungry. A diet higher in whole grains
and legumes and lower in beef and other meat
is not just healthier for ourselves but also
contributes to changing the world system that
feeds some people and leaves others hungry.
-- Dr.Walden
Bello
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I
have been a vegetarian for about 10 years. And it
really was due to the reading that I did. And they
explain so that you understand why it's important
for the planet's survival along with compassion for
animals. It certainly made it much easier for me.
I lost weight really fast. My mother died from cancer
so this is all very personal to me. And I just would
like the planet to be a better place. And I think
you'll find a vegetarian diet to be really incredible
these days.
-- Linda Blair
To
become vegetarian is to step into the stream which
leads to nirvana.
-- Buddha
If
any kid ever realized what was involved in factory
farming they would never touch meat again.I was so
moved by the intelligence,sense of fun and personalities
of the animals I worked with on Babe that by the end
of the film I was a vegetarian.
-- James Cromwell
We
don't need to eat anyone who would run, swim, or fly
away if he could.
~James Cromwell
Truely
man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds
theirs. We live by the death of others: we are burial
places! I have from an early age abjured the use of
meat, and the time will come when men such as I will
look on the murder of animals as they now look on
the murder of men.
~Leonardo da Vinci
"I
have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and
the time will come when men such as I look upon the
murder of animals as they now look upon the murder
of men." -- Leonardo da Vinci
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Many
things made me become a vegetarian, among them,
the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.
-- John
Denver |
Nothing
will benefit human health and increase chances
for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution
to a vegetarian diet.
-- Albert
Einstein |
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About
2,000 pounds of grains must be supplied to livestock
in order to produce enough meat and other livestock
products to support a person for a year, whereas 400
pounds of grain eaten directly will support a person
for a year. Thus, a given quantity of grain eaten
directly will feed 5 times as many people as it will
if it is eaten indirectly by humans in the form of
livestock products....
-- M.E. Ensminger, PH.D.
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My
refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency,
and I was frequently chided for my singularity,
but, with this lighter repast, I made the greater
progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker
comprehension.
-- Ben
Franklin |
Flesh
eating is unprovoked murder.
-- Ben
Franklin
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 ordinarily to live. I hold flesh-food
to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying
the lower animal world - if we are superior to
it.
-- Mohandas
Gandhi |
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Vegetarianism
is harmless enough, though it's apt to give a person
wind and self-righteousness.
~Robert
Hutchinson
A
dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized
as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and
hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food.
-- John Harvey Kellogg, M.D.
When
we eat vegetarian foods, we needn't worry about what
kind of disease our food died from; this makes a joyful
meal!
-- John Harvey Kellogg, M.D.
We
all love animals. Why do we call some "pets" and others
"dinner?"
~ k.d. lang
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Our
food system takes abundant grain,which people
can't afford,and shrinks it into meat,which better-off
people will pay for.
-- Frances
Moore Lappe |
I
understand, of course, that grain-fed meat is not
the cause of the world hunger problem-and eating some
of it doesn't directly take food out of the mouths
of starving people-but it is, to me, a symbol and
a symptom of the basic irrationality of a food system
that's divorced from human needs. Therefore, using
less meat can be an important way to take responsibility.
Making conscious choices about what we eat, based
on what the earth can sustain and what our bodies
need, can help remind us that our whole society must
begin to balance sustainable production with human
need.
-- Frances
Moore Lappe
We
stopped eating meat many years ago. During the course
of a Sunday lunch we happened to look out of the kitchen
window at our young lambs playing happily in the fields.
Glancing down at our plates, we suddenly realised
we were eating the leg of an animal who had until
recently been playing in a field herself. We looked
at each other and said: "Wait a minute, we love these
sheep-they're such gentle creatures. So why are we
eating them?" It was the last time we ever did.
-- Paul
and Linda McCartney
If
slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be
vegetarian. We feel better about ourselves and better
about the animals, knowing we're not contributing
to their pain.
-- Paul
and Linda McCartney
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Intellectually,
human beings and animals may be different, but
it's pretty obvious that animals have a rich
emotional life and that they feel joy and pain.
It's easy to forget the connection between a
hamburger and the cow it came from. But I forced
myself to acknowledge the fact that every time
I ate a hamburger, a cow had ceased to breathe
and moo and walk around.
-- Moby
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"Men
dig their graves with their own teeth and die by those
fated instruments more than the weapons of their enemies.
"
-- Thomas Moffett
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The
Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures
gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which
is the finest sentiment of which our human nature
is capable. --
Thomas
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There's
so many vegetarian foods now that are available at
the market . The same with drive-throughs. Now, a
lot of them serve veggie burgers just like the restaurants
are doing. So, it's really very easy.
-- Kevin Nealon
When
I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I
saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to
take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the
way bullies would take control of younger kids in
the schoolyard.
-- River Phoniex
But
for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we
deprive a soul of the sun and light and of that proportion
of life and time it had been born into the world to
enjoy."
-- Plutarch
"For
as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each
other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and
pain cannot reap joy and love."
-- Pythagoras
As
long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer
of lower living beings he will never know health or
peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will
kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder
and pain cannot reap joy and love."
-- Pythagoras
"While
we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts,
how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?"
-- George
Bernard Shaw
It
is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by
culinary preparation, that it is rendered susceptible
of mastication or digestion; and that the sight of
its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable
loathing and disgust.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley
By
all that is sacred in our hope for the human race,
I conjure those who love happiness and truth to give
a fair trial to the vegetable system!
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Once
people spend time with farm animals in a loving way
... a pig or cow or a little chicken or a turkey,
they might find they relate with them the same way
they relate with dogs and cats. People don't really
think of them that way because they're on the plate.
Why should they be food when other animals are pets?
I would never eat my doggies.
-- Alicia Silverstone
When
a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting
his own hunger for justice. Man prays for mercy, but
is unwilling to extend it to others. Why the should
man expect mercy from God? It is unfair to expect
something that you are not willing to give.
-- Isaac B. Singer
Nothing
more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism,
yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians,
for we feed on babies, though not our own.
~Robert Louis Stevenson
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I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny
of the human race, in its gradual improvement,
to leave off eating animals.
-- Henry
David Thoreau
No
humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood,
will wantonly murder any creature which holds
its life by the same tenure that he does.
-- Henry
David Thoreau
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Vegetarianism
serves as the criterion by which we know that
the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of
humanity is genuine and sincere.
-- Leo
Tolstoy |
If
he be really and seriously seeking to live a good
life, the first thing from which he will abstain will
always be the use of animal food, because ...its use
is simply immoral, as it involves the performance
of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling --
killing.
-- Leo
Tolstoy
A
human can be healthy without killing animals for food.
Therefore if he eats meat he participates in taking
animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
-- Leo
Tolstoy
"Thou
shalt not kill" does not apply to murder of one's
own kind only, but to all living beings; and this
Commandment was inscribed in the human breast long
before it was proclaimed from Sinai.
-- Leo
Tolstoy
I
think there's something odd about eating another living
anything.
--
Shania Twain
"I
know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who is
raised to be eaten, and who never has a chance
to be a real being, is unhealthy. It's like...you're
just eating misery. You're eating a bitter life."
~Alice
Walker |
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I
think there will come a time, and this is down
the road a great many years, when civilized people
will look back in horror on our generation and
the ones that have preceded it: the idea that
we should eat other living things running around
on four legs, that we should raise them just for
the purpose of killing them! The people of the
future will say, meat-eaters in disgust and regard
us in the same way that we regard cannibals and
cannibalism.
-- Dennis
Weaver |
I
became a vegetarian in 1958 and it was very difficult
in those days to really maintain that because there
weren't many options. But, now, it's a growing trend
because the economics are there. See, there's simply
enough people demanding it that it's profitable to
supply vegetarians with those products.
-- Dennis
Weaver
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In
all the round world of Utopia there is no meat.
There used to be, but now we cannot stand the
thought of slaughterhouses. And it is impossible
to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig.I
can still remember as a boy the rejoicings over
the closing of the last slaughterhouse.
-- H
G Wells - A Modern Utopia
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