"As long as humans continue to be the ruthless destroyer of other beings, we will never know health or peace. For as long as people massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, those who sow the seed of murder and pain will never reap joy or love." Pythagoras
"Men dig their graves with their own teeth, and die more by those instruments than by all weapons of their enemies." Pythagoras
"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 they had been born into the world to enjoy." Plutarch (Greek biographer 100 C.E.)
"What do they know - all these scholars, all these philosophers, all the leaders of the world? They have convinced themselves that man, the worst transgressor of all the species, is the crown of creation. All other creatures were created merely to provide him with food, pelts, to be tormented, exterminated. In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka."
Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1978 Nobel Prize Winner
"A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk's bill, no sharp talon, no roughness of teeth, no such strength of stomach or heat of digestion, as can be sufficient to convert or alter such heavy and fleshy fare. But if you will contend that you were born to an inclination to such food as you have now a mind to eat, do you then yourself kill what you would eat. But do it yourself, without the help of a chopping-knife, mallet or axe, as wolves, bears, and lions do, who kill and eat at once. Rend an ox with thy teeth, worry a hog with thy mouth, tear a lamb or a hare in pieces, and fall on and eat it alive as they do. But if thou had rather stay until what thou eat is to become dead, and if thou art loath to force a soul out of its body, why then dost thou against nature eat an animate thing? There is nobody that is willing to eat even a lifeless and a dead thing even as it is; so they boil it, and roast it, and alter it by fire and medicines, as it were, changing and quenching the slaughtered gore with thousands of sweet sauces, that the palate being thereby deceived may admit of such uncouth fare." Plutarch
"Can you really ask for what reason Pythagoras had for abstaining from flesh? I, for my part, marvel at which man was possessed, who was the first to pollute his mouth with gore, and to allow his lips to touch the flesh of murdered beings. How could his eyes endure the spectacle of the flayed and dismembered limbs? How was his taste not sickened by contact with festering wounds, with the pollution of corrupted blood and juices?" Plutarch
"Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventures, and for hides and furs is a phenomenon which is at once disgusting and distressing. There is no justification in indulging in such acts of brutality." � His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama
"Wherefore I say to all those who desire to be disciples, keep your hands from bloodshed and let no flesh meat enter your mouths, for the Lord is just and bountiful; who ordains that man shall live by the fruits and seeds of the earth alone." Jesus, Gospel of the Nazirenes, Chapter 38, Verse 4
"Animals and humans suffer and die alike. If you had to kill your own calf before you ate it, most likely you would not be able to do it. To hear the calf scream, to see the blood spill, to see the baby being taken away from its momma, and to see the look of death in the animal's eye would turn your stomach. So you get the man at the packing house to do the killing for you." Dick Gregory ("The Shadow That Scares Me")
"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than blacks were made for whites or women made for men." Alice Walker (Author of "The Color Purple")
"When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he wantonly destroys one of the works of God we call him a sportsman." Alice Walker
"As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out." Alice Walker
"It is a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done." Harriet Beecher Stowe (Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin", 1811-1896)
"People ask me how I look so young, I tell them I look my age. It is other people who look older, what do you expect from people who eat corpses?" George Bernard Shaw (British playwright; 1856-1950)
"Animals are my friends. And I do not eat my friends." George Bernard Shaw
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." Gandhi (1869-1948)
"It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion towards our fellow creatures." Gandhi
"I do not regard flesh food as necessary for us. I hold flesh food to be unsuited to our species. To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body. The more helpless the creature, the more it is entitled to protection from humans form the cruelty of humans." Gandhi
Dave Scott, considered the world's greatest tri-athlete, holds a degree in exercise physiology. In his words, it's a 'ridiculous fallacy' to think that athletes need animal protein. He is joined in his views by such Olympians as Edwin Moses, the gold medalist who went eight years without losing the 400-meter hurdle competition, and Murray Rose, who, at age 17, won three gold medals in the Olympic swim competition. This year, I was glad to see Olympic champion Carl Lewis crown his career with his best long jump in two years to win a record-tying ninth gold medal. Lewis, of course, is a longtime vegan whose dietary changes developed out of his moral and religious convictions. Several years ago Leroy Burrell and Carl Lewis traded titles back and forth when they were being hailed as the fastest sprinters in the world - and both were vegetarians. Whether you are a world-class athlete, a weekend athlete, or simply a recreational exerciser, we know that you can meet your performance objectives, and improve your health by eating a plant-based diet that meets your energy needs. Even at my present age of 93, I found that switching to a plant-based diet improved my health dramatically." Dr. Benjamin Spock (World's foremost pediatrician; author of "Baby and Child Care")
"Veganism acknowledges the intrinsic legitimacy of all life. It recognizes no hierarchy of acceptable suffering among sentient creatures. It is no more acceptable to kill creatures with primitive nervous systems than those with highly developed nervous systems. The value of life to its possessor is the same, whether it's the life of a clam, a crayfish, a carp, a cow, a chicken, or a child." Stanley Sapon, Ph.D. (www.VeganValues.org)
"A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral." Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
"I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men." Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
"People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times." Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991)
"As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures, there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together." Isaac Bashevis Singer
"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 (1879-1955)
"If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow man." St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226)
"You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity." Ralph Waldo Emerson (Philosopher/writer of "Nature"; 1803-1882)
"My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt." Anna Sewell (Author of "Black Beauty"; 1820-1878
"One day, I reached out to eat something and it ran away. Obviously, it didn't want to be eaten." (Musician Dave Allen)
"My refusing to eat meat occasioned inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension." Benjamin Franklin (Politician, writer, scientist; 1706-1790)
"The only way we can guarantee our continued survival on earth is to recognize the importance of other non human life forms and stop pretending we're on top of some pyramid of domination over other beings." Rod Coronado (Activist who served five years in prison for destroying mink research lab at MSU)
"A disciple of the Buddha should have a mind of compassion and cultivate the practice of liberating sentient beings. He must reflect thus: throughout the eons of time, all male sentient beings have been my father, all female sentient beings my mother. I was born of them, if I slaughter them, I would be slaughtering my parents as well as eating flesh that was once my own. This is so because all elemental earth, water, fire and air-the four constituents of all life-have previously been part of my body, part of my substance. I must therefore always cultivate the practice of liberating sentient beings and enjoin others to do likewise-as sentient beings are forever reborn, again and again, lifetime after lifetime. If a Bodhisattva sees an animal on the verge of being killed, he must devise a way to rescue and protect it, helping it to escape suffering and death. The disciple should always teach the Bodhisattva precepts to rescue and deliver sentient beings." From the Brahma Net Sutra
About vivisection:
"Those who won't hesitate to vivisect, won't hesitate to lie about it as well." GB Shaw
"I would not want to promote research on animals. Fortunately, only my back is twisted, not my mind." Linn Pulis (Polio victim)
"The reason why I am against animal research is because it doesn't work. It has no scientific value. One cannot extrapolate the results of animal research to human beings, and every good scientist knows that." Robert Mendelsohn, M.D., (Late Professor of Pediatrics at the U. of Illinois, College of Medicine)
"It is difficult to entertain a warm feeling for a 'medical man' who straps dogs to a table, cuts their vocal cords, and spends an interesting day or week slowly vivisecting or dismembering them." Clare Booth Luce (American writer of "The Women" and former ambassador to Italy; 1902-1987)
"My own conviction is that the study of human physiology by way of experiments on animals is the most grotesque and fantastic error ever committed in the whole range of human intellectual activity." Dr. GF Walker in "Medical World" Dec 8, 1933)
"Atrocities are no less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called 'medical research'." George Bernard Shaw
"The question was, can we give up animal experiments without halting medical progress? My answer is not only can one [give up vivisection] but that one must give up animal experiments not to halt medical progress. Today's rebellion against vivisection is no longer based on animal welfare. We have to speak of a scientific rebellion.out of consideration for human beings." Pietro Croce, MD (College of American Pathologists)
"There will come a time when the world will look back to modern vivisection in the name of Science, as they do now to burning people at the stake in the name of religion." Henry J. Bigelow, MD
"I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race. The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further." Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit for their cruelty." Leo Tolstoy
"I abhor vivisection. It should at least be curbed. Better, it should be abolished. The whole thing is evil. Charles Mayo, MD (Founder of Mayo Clinic; 1865-1939)
"It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures." Eleanor Roosevelt (Writer, diplomat, First Lady; 1884-1962)
About law-breaking and radical, revolutionary activism:
"If we are trespassing, then so were the American soldiers who broke down the gates of Hitler's death camps. If we are thieves, then so were the members of The Underground Railroad who freed the slaves from the South. And if we are vandals, then so were those who destroyed forever the gas chambers of Buchanwald and Auschwitz." Animal Liberation Front
"Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." Elie Wiesel (concentration camp survivor)
"I am anti evil, anti oppression, anti lynching. You can't be anti those things unless you are also anti the oppressor and the lyncher. You can't be anti slavery and pro slavemaster." Malcolm X (1925-1965)
"Revolutions are never fought by turning the other cheek. Revolutions are never based upon love your enemy and pray for those who spitefully use you. And revolutions are never waged singing, 'We Shall Overcome.' Revolutions are based upon bloodshed. Revolutions are never compromising. Revolutions are never based upon negotiations. Revolutions are never based upon any kind of tokenism whatsoever." Malcolm X
"Who ever heard of angry revolutionists all harmonizing 'We Shall Overcome Some Day' while tripping and swaying along arm-in-arm with the very people they were supposed to be angrily revolting against? Who ever heard of angry revolutionists swinging their bare feet together with their oppressor in lily pad park pools, with gospels and guitars and 'I Have a Dream' speeches?" Malcolm X
"I am only effective as long as there is a shadow on white America of the black man standing behind me with a Molotov cocktail." Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
"I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to rouse the conscience of the community over its injustice is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law." MLK
"There are some things so dear, some things so precious, some things so eternally true, that they are worth dying for. And I submit to you if a person has not discovered something that he is willing to die for then that person isn't fit to live." MLK
"Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it polite?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a point when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor polite, nor popular, but one must take it because his conscience tells him that it is right." MLK
"If he doesn't put you in jail, wonderful, nobody within his sense likes to go to jail. But if he puts you in jail, you go in that jail and transform it from a dungeon of shame to a haven of freedom." MLK
"We cannot in all good conscience obey your unjust laws and abide by the unjust system, because non cooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good" MLK
"I'll be the self-determined damned before the blessed lump of clay. I'll be the self-reliant idiot before the learned led astray. I'll be the unruly over-reactor before the smiling unaffected. I'll be the laughing stock revolutionary before the dignified slave." Culture (vegan band)
"I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as the truth and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think or speak or write with moderation. No! No! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her baby from the fire into which he has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present! I am in earnest. I will not equivocate. I will not excuse. I will not retreat a single inch. And I will be heard. The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal to hasten the resurrection of the dead. It is pretended that I am retarding the cause of emancipation by the coarseness of my invective, and the precipitancy of my measures. The charge is not true. On this question, my influence, humble as it is, is felt at this moment to a considerable extent, and shall be felt in coming years - not perniciously, but beneficially - not as a curse, but as a blessing; and posterity will bear testimony that I was right!" William Lloyd Garrison (Slave abolitionist; 1805--1879)
"There can be no doubt as to which side is right and which side is wrong, for compassionate defense of life is a force of good and sadistic mass destruction of life is a force for evil." Paul Watson
"The victim is nothing to the vandal. The vandal doesn't care what any ONE victim thinks, any more than what the next victim thinks. The victims are interchangeable." Unknown
"Night of justice, knight of justice. Liberation's crusade has begun. Your laws will have no meaning past the setting of the sun. Demons feeding off of the innocents' pain. Generations of oppression, one generation will break this chain." Earth Crisis (Vegan band)
"What sick, ridiculous puppets we are. What a gross little stage we dance on. What fun we have. Dancing. F-c-i-g. Not a care in the world. Not knowing that we are nothing. We are not what was intended." Kevin Spacey as Jonathon Doe in SEVEN
I never really liked meat. I was a child that had to be forced to eat
my meat. Whatever you ate before that you loved like turkey slices
they've got a substitute now that's not hard to find.
-Masta Killer
They've been trying to test on animals for the past 50 years. Nobody's
come up with a cure,"he says. "If you want to test on somebody, test on
me."
-Montell Williams
I gave up meat when I was twelve. & One day I was cutting up a chicken
for my mom, and I hit a tumor with the knife. There was [pus] and blood
all over the place. That was enough for me.
-Josh Hartnett
I think and speak clearer since I cut the dairy out. I can breathe
better and perform at a better rate, and my voice is clearer. I can
explore different things with my voice that I couldn't do because of my
meat and dairy ingestion. I am proud and blessed to be a vegetarian,
everything became clear.
-Common
I turned vegetarian after 9/11. A friend of mine came back from New
York and said that he couldn't stand the smell of burnt flesh. It
immediately reminded me of a barbecue.
-Alyssa Milano
The medical argument for animal testing doesn't stand up. Even if it
did, I don't think we should kill other species. We think we're so much
better; I'm not sure we are. I tell people, We've beaten into
submission every animal on the face of the Earth, so we are the clear
winners of whatever battle is going on between the species. Couldn't we
be generous? I really do think it's time to get nice. No need to keep
beating up on them. I think we've got to show that we're kind.
-Paul McCartney
{Our 7-year-old daughter} Maggie is our all-natural girl. Anything to
do with nature and anything that breathes and walks and moves, she
wants it. And she informed us the other day that she's gonna be a
vegetarian. She just woke up one morning and said, 'I'm gonna be a
vegetarian,' and she has been one ever since,".
-Faith Hill
Every time we go by KFC, my kids ask me to honk and they yell 'Boo' out
the window.
-Pamela Anderson
I'm on a vegan diet, I do yoga every day, I work out, I'm totally
spiritual ...
-Avril Lavigne
I wouldn't eat a chicken if it dropped dead in front of me holding up a
sign that said, Eat Me.
-Ricky Williams
According to the group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals,
fish have feelings too. Whenever my sons go fishing they always tell
me, "Dad it doesn't hurt a fish to get hooked." Well I watch and I see
and I believe it's painful for the fish.
-Donald Trump
Someone from Manolo Blahnik went into my shop and said: 'These shoes
are not vegetarian.' That's the highest compliment, because you just
can't tell that they are, and they are." "My mum taught me to have a
soul.
-Stella McCartney
I sometimes think, would I drink the milk from the breast of a woman I
don't know? No. So I think, why would I drink it from a cow.
-Devon Aoki
My wife actually got worried about my drinking so much regular milk,
you know, so she got me into rice milk and now soy milk, which I
greatly enjoy. A soy mocha's a fine thing.
-Willie Nelson
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
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
You know, we all oppose animal cruelty. But sometimes we forget that
animals on farms suffer and feel pain like all other animals. They,
too, deserve to be protected from harm and cruelty.
-Charlotte Ross
I was watching an HBO special on eating habits and different cultures,
and they showed in China how people eat cats, and I'm really fond of
cats, and I happened to be sitting on the couch with my cat, and once I
saw that, it just put everything in perspective. If I wouldn't eat my
cat what's the difference [between] eating a cat or a cow? If certain
animals are considered lesser than, so are certain people and that's
not really fair. And the root of that is to consider life on equal
terms across the board.
-Ben Kenney
I think it's really disgusting that designers use fur, and it's
disgusting that people wear fur. It has to stop. It's so unnecessary in
today's world, with the technology we have. I'm wearing fabulous
"ultrasuede" tonight. This is totally the look of leather. There's a
way to get it without death involved. We should be part of the
solution, not part of the problem.
-Marc Bouwer
I don't eat any animals or anything that has to do with animals. No
fish or egg or dairy because I personally don't feel it's a good
practice to eat anything that might run away from you.
-Russell Simmons
The really great thing about my shop is that there's not one dead
animal in it. ... Manolo's got a load of fabric shoes as well! We use
plastic, fabric, rubber- anything but leather. I almost feel like I've
been put here to show everyone that it's unnecessary.
-Stella McCartney
I'd like to see animals removed from the entertainment business.
Chimpanzees and apes won't perform unless you beat them. Circuses keep
elephants in chains 90 percent of the time. Elephants need freedom of
movement. In circuses, they live in cramped quarters, which is not the
life intended for them by nature. Some are beaten daily, forced to do
ridiculous tricks and robbed of every shred of dignity.
-Bob Barker
I became very critical of zoos and circuses and keeping animals in
captivity. I wish it was against the law.
-Christopher Walken
I'd like to see animals removed from the entertainment business.
Chimpanzees and apes won't perform unless you beat them. Circuses keep
elephants in chains 90 percent of the time. Elephants need freedom of
movement. In circuses, they live in cramped quarters, which is not the
life intended for them by nature. Some are beaten daily, forced to do
ridiculous tricks and robbed of every shred of dignity.
-Bob Barker
I take vitamins daily, but just the bare essentials not what you'd call
supplements. I try to stick to a vegan diet heavy on fruit, vegetables,
tofu, and other soy products.
-Clint Eastwood
Animals are being exploited in such an unbelievable way; it's not
acceptable. PETA is trying to get your attention, and they're
successful at it. ... If you talk to people who grew up on a farm,
they'll tell you that they had an experience where they were taking
care of a cow, and one day their parents took it away and killed it.
It's a torturous experience for them, and that's when they became hard.
People are taught to be grown-up or whatever, and that's dumb. That
bond they had with that cow or chicken was real.
-Alicia Silverstone
Maybe the world would be better if people didn't hate so much and kill
animals.
-Craig Nicholls of the Vines
I've been vegan for about 10 and a half years. It's been all good. I'm
obviously much healthier
-Woody Harrelson
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
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
Vegetarianism that is me. I don't eat meat. It's been over 10 years.
Actually it's been 11 and a half years and I feel good and I feel like
I look good and I have energy& and you have to look at what you're
putting in your body. I eat vegetables and I eat grain and I take care
of myself and I don't think I look that bad, do I?
-Tracy Bingham
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
It does take a little work to be a vegetarian but it's so worth it, oh
it's so worth it!
-Tippi Hedren
KillerI used to wear real fur, but, like many others, I had a change of heart
when I learned what actually happens to the animals.
-Martha Stewart
Nothing's changed my life more. I feel better about myself as a person,
being conscious and responsible for my actions and I lost weight and my
skin cleared up and I got bright eyes and I just became stronger and
healthier and happier. Can't think of anything better in the world to
be but be vegan.
-Alicia Silverstone
I think there's something odd about eating another living anything.
-Shania Twain
I was sitting here eating my plate of chicken salad, and suddenly I
looked down and saw all the meat on my plate and just wasn't hungry
anymore. So i've decided I'm not going to eat meat.
-Shiri Appleby
The person I love would never wear fur. Fur just makes me think of
shallow women who have no conscience. The fur industry belongs to a
time when people were selfish beyond belief. If you were some ancient
tribal cheiftain, and there was not a department store nearby 350 years
ago, I'd understand. But now, we have synthetic fibers,and it's not
necessary. The elitism of fur makes me wanna puke.
-Gavin Rossdale
I don't eat meat, fish, or eggs. I was never a big meat-eater, but I've
got more energy now," says Shania, who hasn't eaten an animal since she
married longtime vegetarian (and record producer) Mutt Lange.
-Shania Twain
I quit eating red meat a long time ago. I'm a vegetarian, but not by a
moral issue or any kind of stand.
-Dwight Yoakam
I have witnessed and tended to calves in rodeos who became paralyzed
and whose tracheas were totally or partially severed. Slamming them to
the ground has caused rupture of several internal organs leading to a
slow and agonizing death.
-Dr. E.J. Finocchino
Many years ago, I was in a Broadway show and I had to wear a fox fur
around my shoulders. One day my hand touched one of the fox's legs. It
seemed to be in two pieces. Then it dawned on me.... her leg had
probally been snapped in two by the steel trap that had caught it.
-Bea Arthur
I admit to having worn suede and leather pants myself for a while, but
you just never feel clean, and it's degenerate, anyway, to wear animal
skins.... So I went back to bluejeans after my degenerate period.
-Andy Warhol
The 1950's American dream of owning a mink coat is as dead as the 60
mink killed to make that coat.
-Trish Donnally
It's sad. That's a living creature. We don't have the right to take
thier life away for fashion.
-Carmen Electra
We don't live the lives of Eskimos. We don't need to kill animals for
fashion.
-Charlize Theron
I'm a big health food freak and a vegetarian devotee.
-Chelsea Clinton
Not that I say,"Oh, I'm not going to associate with certain people.,"
but I have my world,and I only want to be around people who I feel
stimulated by. I have to be honest I do have a new quest: I want to
meet more vegetarians, people who are more like minded. There's
something real neat about that feeling. It makes you feel so settled to
know there's somebody else sitting right there,being so passionate
about what i'm passionate about. I don't want to be around selfish
people. I try to keep myself surrounded by deep people who will move
me.
-Alicia Silverstone
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
The fact is that there is enough food in the world for everyone. But
tragically, much of the world's food and land resources are tied up in
producing beef and other livestock--food for the well off--while
millions of children and adults suffer from malnutrition and
starvation.
-Dr.Walden Bello
When you see the golden arches you are probally on your way to the
pearly gates.
-William Castelli,M.D.
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
There exists a substantial body of competent and reliable scientific
evidence that eating eggs increases the risk of heart attacks or heart
disease....This evidence is systematic,consistent,strong,and congruent.
-Ernest G. Barnes
An important fact to remember is that all natural diets, including
purely vegetarian diets without a hint of dairy products, contain
amounts of calcium that are above the treshold for meeting your
nutritional needs....In fact,calcium deficiency caused by an
insufficient amount if calcium in the diet is not known to occur in
humans.
-John McDougall
I know hundreds of people who have spent years and thousands of dollars
on tests looking for ulcers or spastic bowels. I tell them to lay off
all dairy products for two weeks. The results are usually so striking
that it changes thier lives.
-David Jacobs
I would expect an extremely high percentage of the chickens would test
positive. Our poultry industry clients wouldn't like that.
-Brian Shelton Pathogen Control
The oath I took as an inspector said if I ever saw anything wrong I was
supposted to report it. But today I can't report anything.Today, if you
blow your whistle, you're in trouble with the inspection service. I
feel the oath I took is violated every day I work.
-William Freeman
There is strong medical evidence that complete freedom from eating
animal flesh or cow's milk products is a gateway to optimal nutritional
health.
-Dr.Klaper
I was raised on a dairy farm and ate plenty of meat and eggs until
about twenty years ago. I started doing nutritional research, and a
decade or so after that my family made some major dietary changes. I'm
just paying attention to what the data are telling me.The scientific
evidence came first.
-T. Colin Campbell
Whether industralized societies...can cure themselves of their meat
addictions may ultimately be a greater factor in world health than all
the docters,health insurance policies,and drugs put together.
-The China-Oxford-Cornell Project on Nutrition
Vegetarians have the best diet. They have the lowest rates of coronary
disease of any group in the country....Some people scoff at
vegetarians, but they have a fraction of our heart attack rate and they
have only 40 percent of our cancer rate. They outlive other men by
about six years now.
-Dr.William Castelli
If you step back and look at the data, the optimum amount of red meat
you eat should be zero.
-Dr.Walter Willet
The standard four food groups are based on American agricultural
lobbies. Why do we have a milk group? Because we have a National Dairy
Council. Why do we have a meat group? Because we have an extremely
powerful meat lobby.
-Marion Nestle
The person who is afraid to alter his living habits,and especially his
eating and drinking habits, because he is afraid that other persons may
regard him as queer,eccentric,or fanatic forgets that the ownership of
his body,the responsibility for its well-being,belongs to him, not
them.
-Dr.Paul Brunton
Yes, sometimes unusual things happen after a switch to a vegetarian
diet. I've seen a number of cases in which the poor people broke out in
violent attacks of good health, followed by bouts of physical exercise
and sweet thoughts.
-Anonymous
Excessive animal protein is at the core of many chronic diseases.
-Dr.Campbell
Kids nowadays...tend to go overboard on protein --- something I believe
to be totally unnecsssary...I state in my formula for basic good
eating: Eat about one gram of protein for every two pounds of body
weight.
-Arnold Schwarzenegger
Vegetarians always ask about getting enough protein. But I don't know
any nutrition expert who can plan a diet of natural foods resulting in
a protein deficiency, so long as you're not deficient in calories. You
need only 5 or 6 percent of total calories in protein... and it is
pratically impossible to get below 9 percent in ordinary diets.
-Nathan Pritikin
The transition of world agriculture from food grain to feed grains
represents an...evil whose consequences may be far greater and longer
lasting than any past examples of violence inflicted by men against
thier fellow human beings.
-Jeremy Rifkin
To be a vegetarian is to disagree---to disagree with the course of
things today. Starvation,world hunger,cruelty,waste,wars---we must make
a statement against these things. Vegetarianism is my statment. And I
think it's a strong one.
-Isaac Bashevis Singer
Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventure, and for hides
and furs is a phenomena which is at once disgusting and distressing.
There is no justification in indulging is such acts of brutality.
-The XLV Dalai Lama
There are viable (and usually better) alternatives to the use of
animals for food, sport, clothing, & experimentation. I beg you to
discontinue any actions that might cause or condone animal torture,
abuse, or destruction.
-Moby
If you look at the course of western history you'll see that we're
slowly granting basic rights to everyone. A long time ago only kings
had rights. Then rights were extended to property-owning white men.
Then all men. Then women. Then children. Then the mentally retarded.
Now we're agonizing over the extension of basic rights to homosexuals
and animals. We need to finally accept that all sentient creatures are
deserving of basic rights. I define basic rights as this --the ability
to pursue life without having someone else's will involuntarily forced
upon you. Or, as the framers of the constitution put it, the ability to
have "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness". By what criteria can
you justify denying basic rights to any living thing? Realize that by
whatever criteria you employ someone could deny basic rights to you if
they objected to your species, sexual preferences, color, religion,
ideology etc. Would you eat your housecat, or force a mentally retarded
child to ingest oven cleaner? If not, then why is it ok to eat cows and
test products on sentient animals? I believe that to knowingly commit
actions that cause or condone suffering is reprehensible in the
extreme.I call upon you to be compassionate and treat others as you
want to be treated. If you don't want to be beaten, imprisoned,
mutilated, killed or tortured then you shouldn't condone such behavior
towards anyone, be they human or not.
-Moby
Everything revolves around the fork.
-Howard Lyman
Most Americans don't have any idea how well the Department of
Agriculture protects the grower at the expense of the consumer. When a
chemical is banned from use, a farmer or livestock operator who has the
chemical in stock has a choice: either to lose money by disposing of
the product, or to use it and take the risk of getting caught breaking
the law. How severe is that risk? Well, if you use a banned product in
your cattle feed, you have to face the prospect that the government is
going to inspect one out of every 250,000 carcasses. They will test
this carcass not for all banned substances, but just for a small
fraction of them. And even if they detect some residue of a banned
substance, and even if they're able to trace the carcass to the ranch
that produced it, the guilty rancher is likely at most to receive a
stern letter with a strongly worded warning. I never met a rancher who
suffered in any way from breaking any regulation meant to protect the
safety of our meat. The whole procedure is, in short, a charade.
-Howard Lyman
When we kill animals to eat them they end up killing us because their
flesh...was never intended for human beings, who are naturally
herbivores."
-William C. Roberts, M.D
The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of
85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and
am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak would
finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with
a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of
vegetarianism.
-George Bernard Shaw
Animals are becoming more diseased and it will not be long until animal
food will be discarded by many besides Seventh-day Adventists. Foods
that are healthful and life sustaining are to be prepared, so that men
and women will not need to eat meat.
-Ellen White
I tremble for my species when I reflect that God is just.
-Thomas Jefferson
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.
-Matthew 5:7
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the
torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
-Froude
To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human
being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of
the human body.
-Mohandas Gandhi
To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in
the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the
latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man
who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly
butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to
refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the
unpardonable crime.
-Romain Rolland
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
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
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 More
Gambling, eating meat, wine-bibbing, adultery, hunting, thieving,
debauchery - these seven things in this world lead to the hells.
-Sanskrit Shloka
You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the
rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car.
-Harvey Diamond
Basically we should stop doing those things that are destructive to the
environment, other creatures, and ourselves and figure out new ways of
existing.
-Moby
Your choice of diet can influence your long term health prospects more
than any other action you might take.
-Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop
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
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
The closer you can live to being a vegetarian the better.
-Gary Player
Therefore a person fully absorbed in the bodily concept of life is
surely killing himself by not making spiritual progress. Such a person
is called pasu-ghna. Especially excluded from spiritual life are the
animal hunters, who are not interested in hearing and chanting the holy
name of the Lord. Such hunters are always unhappy, both in this life
and in the next. It is therefore said that a hunter should neither die
nor live because for such persons both living and dying are
troublesome.
-A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
If you don't like my opinions leave. But just remember, the animals
can't leave the cages that hold them. They are captive and suffering.
As you cozy into your bed tonight, try to imagine the pain and the
suffering that they endure day after day and night after night. Next
time you get some soap in your eyes, try to imagine that pain for 3 or
4 days at a time. Next time you have a stomach ache, try to imagine
liquid plumber being poured down your throat till you puke so much
blood that you bleed to death. Next time you bump your head, try to
imagine being a monkey and getting a steel plate smashed into your
skull at 50 miles per hour. Then, only then should you feel compelled
to tell me that I'm wrong about my opinions. For all these things have
happened in the name of science. They continue in abundance till this
day.
-Ricki Rockett
The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply
rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we
must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another, even
the lowliest creature; to do so is to renounce our manhood and shoulder
a guilt which nothing justifies.
-Albert Schweitzer
Based on my experience in Los Angeles, my advice to the public is not
to eat meat.
-Gregorio Natavidad-meat inspector
I don't eat chicken anymore. I won't eat it. I won't allow it in my
house.
-Rodney Leonard -U.S. Poultry inspection
I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian
diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut
people open and put them on cholesterol-lowering drugs for the rest of
their lives.
-Dean Ornish, MD
It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is
first acclaimed. It was once considered foolish to suppose that black
men were really human beings and ought to be treated as such. What was
once foolish has now become a recognized truth. Today it is considered
as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form of life as
being the serious demand of a rational ethic. But the time is coming
when people will be amazed that the human race existed so long before
it recognized that thoughtless injury to life is incompatible with real
ethics. Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to
everything that has life.
-Albert Schweitzer
Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our
technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics.
-Peter Singer
Do we, as humans, having an ability to reason and to communicate
abstract ideas verbally and in writing, and to form ethical and moral
judgments using the accumulated knowledge of the ages, have the right
to take the lives of other sentient organisms, particularly when we are
not forced to do so by hunger or dietary need, but rather do so for the
somewhat frivolous reason that we like the taste of meat? In essence,
should'nt we know better?
-Peter Cheeke
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
Animals can't really voice their opinion. We feel as though we can be
on of the spokespeople on their behalf.
-River Phoniex
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
Men hunt I think maybe because they have something wrong with thier own
equipment and they need something else to shoot.
-Pamela Anderson
I've always been very bonded to animals -- more so than most people.
(laughs) I don't think that they can defend themselves, so we have to
help them.
-Jennie Garth
There can be no justification for causing suffering to animals simply
to serve man's pleasure or simply to enhance man's lifestyle."
-The Dean of York
The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our
job is to salvage Mother Nature...We are facing a formidable enemy in
this field. It is the hunters...and to convince them to leave their
guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.
-Jacques Cousteau
Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is--whether
its victim is human or animal--we cannot expect things to be much
better in this world... We cannot have peace among men whose hearts
delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or
even tolerates such moronic delight in killing we set back the progress
of humanity.
-Rachel Carson
I despise and abhor the pleas on behalf of that infamous practice,
vivisection... I would rather submit to the worst of deaths, so far as
pain goes, than have a single dog or cat tortured to death on the
pretense of sparing me a twinge or two.
-Robert Browning (poet)
I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They
lived next to each other in separate cages for several months before I
used one as a heart donor. When we put him to sleep in his cage in
preparation for the operation, he chattered and cried incessantly. We
attached no significance to this, but it must have made a great
impression on his companion, for when we removed the body to the
operating room, the other chimp wept bitterly and was inconsolable for
days. The incident made a deep impression on me. I vowed never again to
experiment with such sensitive creatures."
-Christian Barnard
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is
concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and
organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of
pain and fear.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
When I was 12, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was
laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill
this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.
-Marv Levy
The person who kills for fun is announcing that, could he get away with
it, he'd kill you for fun. Your...life may be of no consequence to
anyone else but is invaluable to you because it's the only one you've
got. Exactly the same is true of each individual deer, hare, rabbit,
fox, fish, pheasant and butterfly. Humans should enjoy their own lives,
not taking others'. "
-Brigid Brophy
There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with
a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
-Isaac Bashevis Singer
Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric
story.
-Mary Tyler Moore
Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we
have no right to do it. A woman gains status when she refuses to see
anything killed to be put on her back. Then she's truly beautiful.
-Doris Day
Fur used to turn heads, now it turns stomachs.
-Rue McClanahan
Human beings are the only animals of which I am throughly and cravenly
afraid.
-George Bernard Shaw
Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with
animals' suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't
vote.
-Paul Harvey
You ask people why they have deer heads on the wall. They always say,
Because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother's
attractive, but I have photographs of her.
-Ellen DeGeneres
Animals are God's creatures, not human property, nor utilities, nor
resources, nor commodities, but precious beings in God's sight.
...Christians whose eyes are fixed on the awfulness of crucifixion are
in a special position to understand the awfulness of innocent
suffering. The Cross of Christ is God's absolute identification with
the weak, the powerless, and the vulnerable, but most of all with
unprotected, undefended, innocent suffering.
-Rev. Andrew Linzey
How can you eat anything with eyes?
-Will Kellogg
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
Compassion is the foundation of everything positive, everything good.
If you carry the power of compassion to the marketplace and the dinner
table, you can make your life really count.
-Rue McClanahan
Animals are my friends-and I don't eat my friends.
-George Bernard Shaw
As custodians of the planet it is our responsibility to deal with all
species with kindness, love and compassion. That these animals suffer
through human cruelty is beyond understanding. Please help to stop this
madness.
-Richard Gere
I know what it feels like to be hurt, and I don't want to cause that
pain to any other person or creature. But somehow, in society, we numb
ourselves in order to make money or to feel better about ourselves,
such as with cosmetics or food. We say to ourselves, I'm going to use
this animal. I'm going to say it doesn't have much worth so that I can
allow myself to do these cruel things. And that just isn't fair.
-Alicia Silverstone
I don't have any understanding of a human being who doesn't respect the
beauty of life and that goes for all creatures that have
thoughts,feelings and needs.
-Alicia Silverstone
My respect and empathy towards animals includes sea dwellers too from
dolphins to fish to lobsters. So, of course, I wouldn't dream of eating
them.
-Alexandra Paul
I haven't bought any leather articles for a very long time. My ideal is
to be able to avoid all animal products, in food as well as clothing.
-Martina Navratilova
If you could see or feel the suffering you wouldn't think twice. Give
back life. Don't eat meat.
-Kim Basinger
I grew up in cattle country-that's why I became a vegetarian. Meat
stinks, for the animals, the environment, and your health.
-K.D. Lang
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
There were no Slaughterhouses in the Garden of Eden.
-Unknown
You're thinking I'm one of those wise-ass California vegetarians who is
going to tell you that eating a few strips of bacon is bad for your
health. I'm not. I say its a free country and you should be able to
kill yourself at any rate you choose, as long as your cold dead body is
not blocking my driveway.
-Scott Adams
I have reached zero tolerance for the cruelty against our animal
brothers. If we are to nuture our culture, let's begin with the animals
who have been nothing but our beasts of burden for so long.
-Riki Rockett
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
Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and
are called medical research.
-George Bernard Shaw
I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that
are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it
inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it,
and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking
further.
-Mark Twain
What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is
not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?
-Jeremy Bentham
Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the distinguishing vices of low and
base minds. Wherever it is found, it is a certain mark of ignorance and
meanness; a mark which all the external advantages of wealth,
splendour, and nobility, cannot obliterate. It is consistent neither
with learning nor true civility.
-William Jones
This is the sum of duty: do naught to others which if done to thee,
would cause thee pain.
-Mahabharata
If man is not to stifle his human feelings, he must practice kindness
towards animals, for he who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in
his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment
of animals.
-Immanuel Kant
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the
way its animals are treated.
-Mohandas Gandhi
He who harms animals has not understood or renounced deeds of sin ...
Those whose minds are at peace and who are free from passions do not
desire to live at the expense of others.
-Acharanga Sutra
People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a
justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we
should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since
this has also been done since the earliest of times.
-Isaac Singer
I abhor vivisection. It should at least be curbed. Better, it should be
abolished. I know of no achievement through vivisection, no scientific
discovery, that could not have been obtained without such barbarism and
cruelty. The whole thing is evil.
-Charles Mayo (founder of the Mayo Clinic)
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 D. Barnard, M.D
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
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
Can you really ask what reason Pythagoras had for abstaining from
flesh? For my part I rather wonder both by what accident and in what
state of soul or mind the first man did so, touched his mouth to gore
and brought his lips to the flesh of a dead creature, he who set forth
tables of dead, stale bodies and ventured to call food and nourishment
the parts that had little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived.
How could his eyes endure the slaughter when throats were slit and
hides flayed and limbs torn from limb? How could his nose endure the
stench? How was it that the pollution did not turn away his taste,
which made contact with the sores of others and sucked juices and
serums from mortal wounds? It is certainly not lions and wolves that we
eat out of self-defense; on the contrary, we ignore these and slaughter
harmless,tame creatures without stings or teeth to harm us, creatures
that, I swear, Nature appears to have produced for the sake of their
beauty and grace. But nothing abashed us, not the flower-like like
tinting of the flesh, not the persuasiveness of the harmonious voice,
not the cleanliness of their habits or the unusual intelligence that
may be found in the poor wretches. No, for the sake of a little flesh
we deprive them of sun, of light, of the duration of life to which they
are entitled by birth and being.
-Plutarch
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
I spoke often in Congress against the war in Vietnam. And commented on
congress persons hiding from the reality of war by saying 'many eat the
meat but few go to the slaughterhouse'. I said it so often I became a
vegetarian.
-Rep. Andrew Jacobs
For many years the media have been afraid of the Goliath power of the meat industry. (But David is coming!)
-Pegeen Fitzgerald
Some people are still going to want to eat meat.. we do agree though
that vegetarianism is a healthier diet.
-David Stroud of the American Meat Institute
We should live in harmony with Earth not conquer it.. or the animals.
The other members of the National Football League say I'm in the
minority.. but they are. A majority of the world is vegetarian.
-Former Steelers football Player Glenn Scolnick
I do not believe that any of the suffering I have caused to laboratory
animals has helped humanity in the slightest.
-Richard Ryder
It is a surprisingly close progression from hunting animals to hunting
and torturing people.. catching and lynching blacks or smoking out Jews
during the Holocaust.
-Aviva Cantor
More and more we realize that the vegetarian diet is a good idea.
-Dr. Edward Martin
Thousands of animals(now billions) are butchered every day without a
shadow of remorse. It cries vengeance upon all the human race.
-Romain Rolland
Since visiting the abatoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat.
-Vincent Van Gogh
Arson and cruelty to animals are 2 of 3 childhood warning signs
regarding the potential to be a serial killer.(To no longer objectify
living beings by ceasing hunting and fishing takes one l step further
away from the murder of humans.)
-John Douglas
May all that have life be delivered from suffering.
-Buddha
I went snorkeling and noticed how gently the fish welcomed us into
their world.. as compared to the violence with which we welcomed them
into ours. I became a vegetarian.
-Syndee Brinkman
Martin Luther King taught us all nonviolence. I was told to extend
nonviolence to the mother and her calf.
-Dick Gregory
Whenever we cause suffering or death to any other being, we cause
suffering to the Great Life Force.
-Shik Po Chih
He is a heavy eater of beef. Me thinks it doth harm to his wit.
-Shakespeare in "Twelfth Night"
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
I would not want to get to know a pig very well if I intended to eat
him.
-Pat Leigh
The awful cruelty and terror to which tens of thousands of animals
killed for human food are subjected in traveling long distances by ship
and rail and road to the slaughterhouses of the world. God disapproves
of all cruelty.. whether to man or beast. The occupation of
slaughtering animals is brutalising to those who are required to do the
work.... I believe this matter is well worthy of the serious
consideration of Christian leaders.
-Mrs. Booth and General Bramwell Booth of the Salvation Army
40 years ago on the set of Gunsmoke I read the book The Holy Science.
Since then I have not eaten meat.
-Dennis Weaver
Cruelty to animals can become violence to humans.
-Ali MacGraw
Hunters are to the arms industry what smokers are to the tobacco
industry. Smokers get a nicotine rush. Hunters get an adrenalin rush
from killing a living being.
-Jim R
Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them the higher food
yield as a solution to world hunger.
-John Denver
The world's environment can no longer handle beef.
-Jeremy Rifkin of Beyond Beef
Oprah has power because Oprah is believable. People do not believe the
beef industry. Shouldn't we be more concerned about the first amendment
rather than protecting powerful agribusiness?
-Morton Downey
Once I was fishing and caught the hook in the fish's eye. That was the
last time I ate a killed creature.
-Janet Barkas
One day the world will look upon research upon animals as it now looks
upon research on human beings.
-Leonardo Da Vinci
We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred
trust to us from our heavenly Father. They are dumb and cannot speak
for themselves.
-Harriet Beecher Stowe
One is dearest to God who has no enemies among the living beings, who
is nonviolent to all creatures.
-Bhagavad Gita
To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.
-Buddha
Meat is dirty. I wouldn't touch a hot dog without a condom on it.
-Bill Maher
I'm picky when it comes to food-as long as there's no meat in it.
-Orlando Bloom
People who wear fur coats and get paint on them? F--- 'em. It may not
"Men dig their graves with their own teeth, and die more by those instruments than by all weapons of their enemies." Pythagoras
"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 they had been born into the world to enjoy." Plutarch (Greek biographer 100 C.E.)
"What do they know - all these scholars, all these philosophers, all the leaders of the world? They have convinced themselves that man, the worst transgressor of all the species, is the crown of creation. All other creatures were created merely to provide him with food, pelts, to be tormented, exterminated. In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka."
Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1978 Nobel Prize Winner
"A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk's bill, no sharp talon, no roughness of teeth, no such strength of stomach or heat of digestion, as can be sufficient to convert or alter such heavy and fleshy fare. But if you will contend that you were born to an inclination to such food as you have now a mind to eat, do you then yourself kill what you would eat. But do it yourself, without the help of a chopping-knife, mallet or axe, as wolves, bears, and lions do, who kill and eat at once. Rend an ox with thy teeth, worry a hog with thy mouth, tear a lamb or a hare in pieces, and fall on and eat it alive as they do. But if thou had rather stay until what thou eat is to become dead, and if thou art loath to force a soul out of its body, why then dost thou against nature eat an animate thing? There is nobody that is willing to eat even a lifeless and a dead thing even as it is; so they boil it, and roast it, and alter it by fire and medicines, as it were, changing and quenching the slaughtered gore with thousands of sweet sauces, that the palate being thereby deceived may admit of such uncouth fare." Plutarch
"Can you really ask for what reason Pythagoras had for abstaining from flesh? I, for my part, marvel at which man was possessed, who was the first to pollute his mouth with gore, and to allow his lips to touch the flesh of murdered beings. How could his eyes endure the spectacle of the flayed and dismembered limbs? How was his taste not sickened by contact with festering wounds, with the pollution of corrupted blood and juices?" Plutarch
"Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventures, and for hides and furs is a phenomenon which is at once disgusting and distressing. There is no justification in indulging in such acts of brutality." � His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama
"Wherefore I say to all those who desire to be disciples, keep your hands from bloodshed and let no flesh meat enter your mouths, for the Lord is just and bountiful; who ordains that man shall live by the fruits and seeds of the earth alone." Jesus, Gospel of the Nazirenes, Chapter 38, Verse 4
"Animals and humans suffer and die alike. If you had to kill your own calf before you ate it, most likely you would not be able to do it. To hear the calf scream, to see the blood spill, to see the baby being taken away from its momma, and to see the look of death in the animal's eye would turn your stomach. So you get the man at the packing house to do the killing for you." Dick Gregory ("The Shadow That Scares Me")
"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than blacks were made for whites or women made for men." Alice Walker (Author of "The Color Purple")
"When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he wantonly destroys one of the works of God we call him a sportsman." Alice Walker
"As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out." Alice Walker
"It is a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done." Harriet Beecher Stowe (Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin", 1811-1896)
"People ask me how I look so young, I tell them I look my age. It is other people who look older, what do you expect from people who eat corpses?" George Bernard Shaw (British playwright; 1856-1950)
"Animals are my friends. And I do not eat my friends." George Bernard Shaw
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." Gandhi (1869-1948)
"It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion towards our fellow creatures." Gandhi
"I do not regard flesh food as necessary for us. I hold flesh food to be unsuited to our species. To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body. The more helpless the creature, the more it is entitled to protection from humans form the cruelty of humans." Gandhi
Dave Scott, considered the world's greatest tri-athlete, holds a degree in exercise physiology. In his words, it's a 'ridiculous fallacy' to think that athletes need animal protein. He is joined in his views by such Olympians as Edwin Moses, the gold medalist who went eight years without losing the 400-meter hurdle competition, and Murray Rose, who, at age 17, won three gold medals in the Olympic swim competition. This year, I was glad to see Olympic champion Carl Lewis crown his career with his best long jump in two years to win a record-tying ninth gold medal. Lewis, of course, is a longtime vegan whose dietary changes developed out of his moral and religious convictions. Several years ago Leroy Burrell and Carl Lewis traded titles back and forth when they were being hailed as the fastest sprinters in the world - and both were vegetarians. Whether you are a world-class athlete, a weekend athlete, or simply a recreational exerciser, we know that you can meet your performance objectives, and improve your health by eating a plant-based diet that meets your energy needs. Even at my present age of 93, I found that switching to a plant-based diet improved my health dramatically." Dr. Benjamin Spock (World's foremost pediatrician; author of "Baby and Child Care")
"Veganism acknowledges the intrinsic legitimacy of all life. It recognizes no hierarchy of acceptable suffering among sentient creatures. It is no more acceptable to kill creatures with primitive nervous systems than those with highly developed nervous systems. The value of life to its possessor is the same, whether it's the life of a clam, a crayfish, a carp, a cow, a chicken, or a child." Stanley Sapon, Ph.D. (www.VeganValues.org)
"A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral." Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
"I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men." Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
"People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times." Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991)
"As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures, there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together." Isaac Bashevis Singer
"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 (1879-1955)
"If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow man." St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226)
"You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity." Ralph Waldo Emerson (Philosopher/writer of "Nature"; 1803-1882)
"My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt." Anna Sewell (Author of "Black Beauty"; 1820-1878
"One day, I reached out to eat something and it ran away. Obviously, it didn't want to be eaten." (Musician Dave Allen)
"My refusing to eat meat occasioned inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension." Benjamin Franklin (Politician, writer, scientist; 1706-1790)
"The only way we can guarantee our continued survival on earth is to recognize the importance of other non human life forms and stop pretending we're on top of some pyramid of domination over other beings." Rod Coronado (Activist who served five years in prison for destroying mink research lab at MSU)
"A disciple of the Buddha should have a mind of compassion and cultivate the practice of liberating sentient beings. He must reflect thus: throughout the eons of time, all male sentient beings have been my father, all female sentient beings my mother. I was born of them, if I slaughter them, I would be slaughtering my parents as well as eating flesh that was once my own. This is so because all elemental earth, water, fire and air-the four constituents of all life-have previously been part of my body, part of my substance. I must therefore always cultivate the practice of liberating sentient beings and enjoin others to do likewise-as sentient beings are forever reborn, again and again, lifetime after lifetime. If a Bodhisattva sees an animal on the verge of being killed, he must devise a way to rescue and protect it, helping it to escape suffering and death. The disciple should always teach the Bodhisattva precepts to rescue and deliver sentient beings." From the Brahma Net Sutra
About vivisection:
"Those who won't hesitate to vivisect, won't hesitate to lie about it as well." GB Shaw
"I would not want to promote research on animals. Fortunately, only my back is twisted, not my mind." Linn Pulis (Polio victim)
"The reason why I am against animal research is because it doesn't work. It has no scientific value. One cannot extrapolate the results of animal research to human beings, and every good scientist knows that." Robert Mendelsohn, M.D., (Late Professor of Pediatrics at the U. of Illinois, College of Medicine)
"It is difficult to entertain a warm feeling for a 'medical man' who straps dogs to a table, cuts their vocal cords, and spends an interesting day or week slowly vivisecting or dismembering them." Clare Booth Luce (American writer of "The Women" and former ambassador to Italy; 1902-1987)
"My own conviction is that the study of human physiology by way of experiments on animals is the most grotesque and fantastic error ever committed in the whole range of human intellectual activity." Dr. GF Walker in "Medical World" Dec 8, 1933)
"Atrocities are no less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called 'medical research'." George Bernard Shaw
"The question was, can we give up animal experiments without halting medical progress? My answer is not only can one [give up vivisection] but that one must give up animal experiments not to halt medical progress. Today's rebellion against vivisection is no longer based on animal welfare. We have to speak of a scientific rebellion.out of consideration for human beings." Pietro Croce, MD (College of American Pathologists)
"There will come a time when the world will look back to modern vivisection in the name of Science, as they do now to burning people at the stake in the name of religion." Henry J. Bigelow, MD
"I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race. The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further." Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit for their cruelty." Leo Tolstoy
"I abhor vivisection. It should at least be curbed. Better, it should be abolished. The whole thing is evil. Charles Mayo, MD (Founder of Mayo Clinic; 1865-1939)
"It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures." Eleanor Roosevelt (Writer, diplomat, First Lady; 1884-1962)
About law-breaking and radical, revolutionary activism:
"If we are trespassing, then so were the American soldiers who broke down the gates of Hitler's death camps. If we are thieves, then so were the members of The Underground Railroad who freed the slaves from the South. And if we are vandals, then so were those who destroyed forever the gas chambers of Buchanwald and Auschwitz." Animal Liberation Front
"Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." Elie Wiesel (concentration camp survivor)
"I am anti evil, anti oppression, anti lynching. You can't be anti those things unless you are also anti the oppressor and the lyncher. You can't be anti slavery and pro slavemaster." Malcolm X (1925-1965)
"Revolutions are never fought by turning the other cheek. Revolutions are never based upon love your enemy and pray for those who spitefully use you. And revolutions are never waged singing, 'We Shall Overcome.' Revolutions are based upon bloodshed. Revolutions are never compromising. Revolutions are never based upon negotiations. Revolutions are never based upon any kind of tokenism whatsoever." Malcolm X
"Who ever heard of angry revolutionists all harmonizing 'We Shall Overcome Some Day' while tripping and swaying along arm-in-arm with the very people they were supposed to be angrily revolting against? Who ever heard of angry revolutionists swinging their bare feet together with their oppressor in lily pad park pools, with gospels and guitars and 'I Have a Dream' speeches?" Malcolm X
"I am only effective as long as there is a shadow on white America of the black man standing behind me with a Molotov cocktail." Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
"I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to rouse the conscience of the community over its injustice is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law." MLK
"There are some things so dear, some things so precious, some things so eternally true, that they are worth dying for. And I submit to you if a person has not discovered something that he is willing to die for then that person isn't fit to live." MLK
"Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it polite?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a point when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor polite, nor popular, but one must take it because his conscience tells him that it is right." MLK
"If he doesn't put you in jail, wonderful, nobody within his sense likes to go to jail. But if he puts you in jail, you go in that jail and transform it from a dungeon of shame to a haven of freedom." MLK
"We cannot in all good conscience obey your unjust laws and abide by the unjust system, because non cooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good" MLK
"I'll be the self-determined damned before the blessed lump of clay. I'll be the self-reliant idiot before the learned led astray. I'll be the unruly over-reactor before the smiling unaffected. I'll be the laughing stock revolutionary before the dignified slave." Culture (vegan band)
"I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as the truth and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think or speak or write with moderation. No! No! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her baby from the fire into which he has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present! I am in earnest. I will not equivocate. I will not excuse. I will not retreat a single inch. And I will be heard. The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal to hasten the resurrection of the dead. It is pretended that I am retarding the cause of emancipation by the coarseness of my invective, and the precipitancy of my measures. The charge is not true. On this question, my influence, humble as it is, is felt at this moment to a considerable extent, and shall be felt in coming years - not perniciously, but beneficially - not as a curse, but as a blessing; and posterity will bear testimony that I was right!" William Lloyd Garrison (Slave abolitionist; 1805--1879)
"There can be no doubt as to which side is right and which side is wrong, for compassionate defense of life is a force of good and sadistic mass destruction of life is a force for evil." Paul Watson
"The victim is nothing to the vandal. The vandal doesn't care what any ONE victim thinks, any more than what the next victim thinks. The victims are interchangeable." Unknown
"Night of justice, knight of justice. Liberation's crusade has begun. Your laws will have no meaning past the setting of the sun. Demons feeding off of the innocents' pain. Generations of oppression, one generation will break this chain." Earth Crisis (Vegan band)
"What sick, ridiculous puppets we are. What a gross little stage we dance on. What fun we have. Dancing. F-c-i-g. Not a care in the world. Not knowing that we are nothing. We are not what was intended." Kevin Spacey as Jonathon Doe in SEVEN
I never really liked meat. I was a child that had to be forced to eat
my meat. Whatever you ate before that you loved like turkey slices
they've got a substitute now that's not hard to find.
-Masta Killer
They've been trying to test on animals for the past 50 years. Nobody's
come up with a cure,"he says. "If you want to test on somebody, test on
me."
-Montell Williams
I gave up meat when I was twelve. & One day I was cutting up a chicken
for my mom, and I hit a tumor with the knife. There was [pus] and blood
all over the place. That was enough for me.
-Josh Hartnett
I think and speak clearer since I cut the dairy out. I can breathe
better and perform at a better rate, and my voice is clearer. I can
explore different things with my voice that I couldn't do because of my
meat and dairy ingestion. I am proud and blessed to be a vegetarian,
everything became clear.
-Common
I turned vegetarian after 9/11. A friend of mine came back from New
York and said that he couldn't stand the smell of burnt flesh. It
immediately reminded me of a barbecue.
-Alyssa Milano
The medical argument for animal testing doesn't stand up. Even if it
did, I don't think we should kill other species. We think we're so much
better; I'm not sure we are. I tell people, We've beaten into
submission every animal on the face of the Earth, so we are the clear
winners of whatever battle is going on between the species. Couldn't we
be generous? I really do think it's time to get nice. No need to keep
beating up on them. I think we've got to show that we're kind.
-Paul McCartney
{Our 7-year-old daughter} Maggie is our all-natural girl. Anything to
do with nature and anything that breathes and walks and moves, she
wants it. And she informed us the other day that she's gonna be a
vegetarian. She just woke up one morning and said, 'I'm gonna be a
vegetarian,' and she has been one ever since,".
-Faith Hill
Every time we go by KFC, my kids ask me to honk and they yell 'Boo' out
the window.
-Pamela Anderson
I'm on a vegan diet, I do yoga every day, I work out, I'm totally
spiritual ...
-Avril Lavigne
I wouldn't eat a chicken if it dropped dead in front of me holding up a
sign that said, Eat Me.
-Ricky Williams
According to the group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals,
fish have feelings too. Whenever my sons go fishing they always tell
me, "Dad it doesn't hurt a fish to get hooked." Well I watch and I see
and I believe it's painful for the fish.
-Donald Trump
Someone from Manolo Blahnik went into my shop and said: 'These shoes
are not vegetarian.' That's the highest compliment, because you just
can't tell that they are, and they are." "My mum taught me to have a
soul.
-Stella McCartney
I sometimes think, would I drink the milk from the breast of a woman I
don't know? No. So I think, why would I drink it from a cow.
-Devon Aoki
My wife actually got worried about my drinking so much regular milk,
you know, so she got me into rice milk and now soy milk, which I
greatly enjoy. A soy mocha's a fine thing.
-Willie Nelson
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
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
You know, we all oppose animal cruelty. But sometimes we forget that
animals on farms suffer and feel pain like all other animals. They,
too, deserve to be protected from harm and cruelty.
-Charlotte Ross
I was watching an HBO special on eating habits and different cultures,
and they showed in China how people eat cats, and I'm really fond of
cats, and I happened to be sitting on the couch with my cat, and once I
saw that, it just put everything in perspective. If I wouldn't eat my
cat what's the difference [between] eating a cat or a cow? If certain
animals are considered lesser than, so are certain people and that's
not really fair. And the root of that is to consider life on equal
terms across the board.
-Ben Kenney
I think it's really disgusting that designers use fur, and it's
disgusting that people wear fur. It has to stop. It's so unnecessary in
today's world, with the technology we have. I'm wearing fabulous
"ultrasuede" tonight. This is totally the look of leather. There's a
way to get it without death involved. We should be part of the
solution, not part of the problem.
-Marc Bouwer
I don't eat any animals or anything that has to do with animals. No
fish or egg or dairy because I personally don't feel it's a good
practice to eat anything that might run away from you.
-Russell Simmons
The really great thing about my shop is that there's not one dead
animal in it. ... Manolo's got a load of fabric shoes as well! We use
plastic, fabric, rubber- anything but leather. I almost feel like I've
been put here to show everyone that it's unnecessary.
-Stella McCartney
I'd like to see animals removed from the entertainment business.
Chimpanzees and apes won't perform unless you beat them. Circuses keep
elephants in chains 90 percent of the time. Elephants need freedom of
movement. In circuses, they live in cramped quarters, which is not the
life intended for them by nature. Some are beaten daily, forced to do
ridiculous tricks and robbed of every shred of dignity.
-Bob Barker
I became very critical of zoos and circuses and keeping animals in
captivity. I wish it was against the law.
-Christopher Walken
I'd like to see animals removed from the entertainment business.
Chimpanzees and apes won't perform unless you beat them. Circuses keep
elephants in chains 90 percent of the time. Elephants need freedom of
movement. In circuses, they live in cramped quarters, which is not the
life intended for them by nature. Some are beaten daily, forced to do
ridiculous tricks and robbed of every shred of dignity.
-Bob Barker
I take vitamins daily, but just the bare essentials not what you'd call
supplements. I try to stick to a vegan diet heavy on fruit, vegetables,
tofu, and other soy products.
-Clint Eastwood
Animals are being exploited in such an unbelievable way; it's not
acceptable. PETA is trying to get your attention, and they're
successful at it. ... If you talk to people who grew up on a farm,
they'll tell you that they had an experience where they were taking
care of a cow, and one day their parents took it away and killed it.
It's a torturous experience for them, and that's when they became hard.
People are taught to be grown-up or whatever, and that's dumb. That
bond they had with that cow or chicken was real.
-Alicia Silverstone
Maybe the world would be better if people didn't hate so much and kill
animals.
-Craig Nicholls of the Vines
I've been vegan for about 10 and a half years. It's been all good. I'm
obviously much healthier
-Woody Harrelson
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
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
Vegetarianism that is me. I don't eat meat. It's been over 10 years.
Actually it's been 11 and a half years and I feel good and I feel like
I look good and I have energy& and you have to look at what you're
putting in your body. I eat vegetables and I eat grain and I take care
of myself and I don't think I look that bad, do I?
-Tracy Bingham
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
It does take a little work to be a vegetarian but it's so worth it, oh
it's so worth it!
-Tippi Hedren
KillerI used to wear real fur, but, like many others, I had a change of heart
when I learned what actually happens to the animals.
-Martha Stewart
Nothing's changed my life more. I feel better about myself as a person,
being conscious and responsible for my actions and I lost weight and my
skin cleared up and I got bright eyes and I just became stronger and
healthier and happier. Can't think of anything better in the world to
be but be vegan.
-Alicia Silverstone
I think there's something odd about eating another living anything.
-Shania Twain
I was sitting here eating my plate of chicken salad, and suddenly I
looked down and saw all the meat on my plate and just wasn't hungry
anymore. So i've decided I'm not going to eat meat.
-Shiri Appleby
The person I love would never wear fur. Fur just makes me think of
shallow women who have no conscience. The fur industry belongs to a
time when people were selfish beyond belief. If you were some ancient
tribal cheiftain, and there was not a department store nearby 350 years
ago, I'd understand. But now, we have synthetic fibers,and it's not
necessary. The elitism of fur makes me wanna puke.
-Gavin Rossdale
I don't eat meat, fish, or eggs. I was never a big meat-eater, but I've
got more energy now," says Shania, who hasn't eaten an animal since she
married longtime vegetarian (and record producer) Mutt Lange.
-Shania Twain
I quit eating red meat a long time ago. I'm a vegetarian, but not by a
moral issue or any kind of stand.
-Dwight Yoakam
I have witnessed and tended to calves in rodeos who became paralyzed
and whose tracheas were totally or partially severed. Slamming them to
the ground has caused rupture of several internal organs leading to a
slow and agonizing death.
-Dr. E.J. Finocchino
Many years ago, I was in a Broadway show and I had to wear a fox fur
around my shoulders. One day my hand touched one of the fox's legs. It
seemed to be in two pieces. Then it dawned on me.... her leg had
probally been snapped in two by the steel trap that had caught it.
-Bea Arthur
I admit to having worn suede and leather pants myself for a while, but
you just never feel clean, and it's degenerate, anyway, to wear animal
skins.... So I went back to bluejeans after my degenerate period.
-Andy Warhol
The 1950's American dream of owning a mink coat is as dead as the 60
mink killed to make that coat.
-Trish Donnally
It's sad. That's a living creature. We don't have the right to take
thier life away for fashion.
-Carmen Electra
We don't live the lives of Eskimos. We don't need to kill animals for
fashion.
-Charlize Theron
I'm a big health food freak and a vegetarian devotee.
-Chelsea Clinton
Not that I say,"Oh, I'm not going to associate with certain people.,"
but I have my world,and I only want to be around people who I feel
stimulated by. I have to be honest I do have a new quest: I want to
meet more vegetarians, people who are more like minded. There's
something real neat about that feeling. It makes you feel so settled to
know there's somebody else sitting right there,being so passionate
about what i'm passionate about. I don't want to be around selfish
people. I try to keep myself surrounded by deep people who will move
me.
-Alicia Silverstone
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
The fact is that there is enough food in the world for everyone. But
tragically, much of the world's food and land resources are tied up in
producing beef and other livestock--food for the well off--while
millions of children and adults suffer from malnutrition and
starvation.
-Dr.Walden Bello
When you see the golden arches you are probally on your way to the
pearly gates.
-William Castelli,M.D.
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
There exists a substantial body of competent and reliable scientific
evidence that eating eggs increases the risk of heart attacks or heart
disease....This evidence is systematic,consistent,strong,and congruent.
-Ernest G. Barnes
An important fact to remember is that all natural diets, including
purely vegetarian diets without a hint of dairy products, contain
amounts of calcium that are above the treshold for meeting your
nutritional needs....In fact,calcium deficiency caused by an
insufficient amount if calcium in the diet is not known to occur in
humans.
-John McDougall
I know hundreds of people who have spent years and thousands of dollars
on tests looking for ulcers or spastic bowels. I tell them to lay off
all dairy products for two weeks. The results are usually so striking
that it changes thier lives.
-David Jacobs
I would expect an extremely high percentage of the chickens would test
positive. Our poultry industry clients wouldn't like that.
-Brian Shelton Pathogen Control
The oath I took as an inspector said if I ever saw anything wrong I was
supposted to report it. But today I can't report anything.Today, if you
blow your whistle, you're in trouble with the inspection service. I
feel the oath I took is violated every day I work.
-William Freeman
There is strong medical evidence that complete freedom from eating
animal flesh or cow's milk products is a gateway to optimal nutritional
health.
-Dr.Klaper
I was raised on a dairy farm and ate plenty of meat and eggs until
about twenty years ago. I started doing nutritional research, and a
decade or so after that my family made some major dietary changes. I'm
just paying attention to what the data are telling me.The scientific
evidence came first.
-T. Colin Campbell
Whether industralized societies...can cure themselves of their meat
addictions may ultimately be a greater factor in world health than all
the docters,health insurance policies,and drugs put together.
-The China-Oxford-Cornell Project on Nutrition
Vegetarians have the best diet. They have the lowest rates of coronary
disease of any group in the country....Some people scoff at
vegetarians, but they have a fraction of our heart attack rate and they
have only 40 percent of our cancer rate. They outlive other men by
about six years now.
-Dr.William Castelli
If you step back and look at the data, the optimum amount of red meat
you eat should be zero.
-Dr.Walter Willet
The standard four food groups are based on American agricultural
lobbies. Why do we have a milk group? Because we have a National Dairy
Council. Why do we have a meat group? Because we have an extremely
powerful meat lobby.
-Marion Nestle
The person who is afraid to alter his living habits,and especially his
eating and drinking habits, because he is afraid that other persons may
regard him as queer,eccentric,or fanatic forgets that the ownership of
his body,the responsibility for its well-being,belongs to him, not
them.
-Dr.Paul Brunton
Yes, sometimes unusual things happen after a switch to a vegetarian
diet. I've seen a number of cases in which the poor people broke out in
violent attacks of good health, followed by bouts of physical exercise
and sweet thoughts.
-Anonymous
Excessive animal protein is at the core of many chronic diseases.
-Dr.Campbell
Kids nowadays...tend to go overboard on protein --- something I believe
to be totally unnecsssary...I state in my formula for basic good
eating: Eat about one gram of protein for every two pounds of body
weight.
-Arnold Schwarzenegger
Vegetarians always ask about getting enough protein. But I don't know
any nutrition expert who can plan a diet of natural foods resulting in
a protein deficiency, so long as you're not deficient in calories. You
need only 5 or 6 percent of total calories in protein... and it is
pratically impossible to get below 9 percent in ordinary diets.
-Nathan Pritikin
The transition of world agriculture from food grain to feed grains
represents an...evil whose consequences may be far greater and longer
lasting than any past examples of violence inflicted by men against
thier fellow human beings.
-Jeremy Rifkin
To be a vegetarian is to disagree---to disagree with the course of
things today. Starvation,world hunger,cruelty,waste,wars---we must make
a statement against these things. Vegetarianism is my statment. And I
think it's a strong one.
-Isaac Bashevis Singer
Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventure, and for hides
and furs is a phenomena which is at once disgusting and distressing.
There is no justification in indulging is such acts of brutality.
-The XLV Dalai Lama
There are viable (and usually better) alternatives to the use of
animals for food, sport, clothing, & experimentation. I beg you to
discontinue any actions that might cause or condone animal torture,
abuse, or destruction.
-Moby
If you look at the course of western history you'll see that we're
slowly granting basic rights to everyone. A long time ago only kings
had rights. Then rights were extended to property-owning white men.
Then all men. Then women. Then children. Then the mentally retarded.
Now we're agonizing over the extension of basic rights to homosexuals
and animals. We need to finally accept that all sentient creatures are
deserving of basic rights. I define basic rights as this --the ability
to pursue life without having someone else's will involuntarily forced
upon you. Or, as the framers of the constitution put it, the ability to
have "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness". By what criteria can
you justify denying basic rights to any living thing? Realize that by
whatever criteria you employ someone could deny basic rights to you if
they objected to your species, sexual preferences, color, religion,
ideology etc. Would you eat your housecat, or force a mentally retarded
child to ingest oven cleaner? If not, then why is it ok to eat cows and
test products on sentient animals? I believe that to knowingly commit
actions that cause or condone suffering is reprehensible in the
extreme.I call upon you to be compassionate and treat others as you
want to be treated. If you don't want to be beaten, imprisoned,
mutilated, killed or tortured then you shouldn't condone such behavior
towards anyone, be they human or not.
-Moby
Everything revolves around the fork.
-Howard Lyman
Most Americans don't have any idea how well the Department of
Agriculture protects the grower at the expense of the consumer. When a
chemical is banned from use, a farmer or livestock operator who has the
chemical in stock has a choice: either to lose money by disposing of
the product, or to use it and take the risk of getting caught breaking
the law. How severe is that risk? Well, if you use a banned product in
your cattle feed, you have to face the prospect that the government is
going to inspect one out of every 250,000 carcasses. They will test
this carcass not for all banned substances, but just for a small
fraction of them. And even if they detect some residue of a banned
substance, and even if they're able to trace the carcass to the ranch
that produced it, the guilty rancher is likely at most to receive a
stern letter with a strongly worded warning. I never met a rancher who
suffered in any way from breaking any regulation meant to protect the
safety of our meat. The whole procedure is, in short, a charade.
-Howard Lyman
When we kill animals to eat them they end up killing us because their
flesh...was never intended for human beings, who are naturally
herbivores."
-William C. Roberts, M.D
The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of
85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and
am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak would
finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with
a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of
vegetarianism.
-George Bernard Shaw
Animals are becoming more diseased and it will not be long until animal
food will be discarded by many besides Seventh-day Adventists. Foods
that are healthful and life sustaining are to be prepared, so that men
and women will not need to eat meat.
-Ellen White
I tremble for my species when I reflect that God is just.
-Thomas Jefferson
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.
-Matthew 5:7
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the
torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
-Froude
To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human
being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of
the human body.
-Mohandas Gandhi
To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in
the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the
latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man
who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly
butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to
refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the
unpardonable crime.
-Romain Rolland
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
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
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 More
Gambling, eating meat, wine-bibbing, adultery, hunting, thieving,
debauchery - these seven things in this world lead to the hells.
-Sanskrit Shloka
You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the
rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car.
-Harvey Diamond
Basically we should stop doing those things that are destructive to the
environment, other creatures, and ourselves and figure out new ways of
existing.
-Moby
Your choice of diet can influence your long term health prospects more
than any other action you might take.
-Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop
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
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
The closer you can live to being a vegetarian the better.
-Gary Player
Therefore a person fully absorbed in the bodily concept of life is
surely killing himself by not making spiritual progress. Such a person
is called pasu-ghna. Especially excluded from spiritual life are the
animal hunters, who are not interested in hearing and chanting the holy
name of the Lord. Such hunters are always unhappy, both in this life
and in the next. It is therefore said that a hunter should neither die
nor live because for such persons both living and dying are
troublesome.
-A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
If you don't like my opinions leave. But just remember, the animals
can't leave the cages that hold them. They are captive and suffering.
As you cozy into your bed tonight, try to imagine the pain and the
suffering that they endure day after day and night after night. Next
time you get some soap in your eyes, try to imagine that pain for 3 or
4 days at a time. Next time you have a stomach ache, try to imagine
liquid plumber being poured down your throat till you puke so much
blood that you bleed to death. Next time you bump your head, try to
imagine being a monkey and getting a steel plate smashed into your
skull at 50 miles per hour. Then, only then should you feel compelled
to tell me that I'm wrong about my opinions. For all these things have
happened in the name of science. They continue in abundance till this
day.
-Ricki Rockett
The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply
rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we
must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another, even
the lowliest creature; to do so is to renounce our manhood and shoulder
a guilt which nothing justifies.
-Albert Schweitzer
Based on my experience in Los Angeles, my advice to the public is not
to eat meat.
-Gregorio Natavidad-meat inspector
I don't eat chicken anymore. I won't eat it. I won't allow it in my
house.
-Rodney Leonard -U.S. Poultry inspection
I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian
diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut
people open and put them on cholesterol-lowering drugs for the rest of
their lives.
-Dean Ornish, MD
It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is
first acclaimed. It was once considered foolish to suppose that black
men were really human beings and ought to be treated as such. What was
once foolish has now become a recognized truth. Today it is considered
as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form of life as
being the serious demand of a rational ethic. But the time is coming
when people will be amazed that the human race existed so long before
it recognized that thoughtless injury to life is incompatible with real
ethics. Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to
everything that has life.
-Albert Schweitzer
Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our
technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics.
-Peter Singer
Do we, as humans, having an ability to reason and to communicate
abstract ideas verbally and in writing, and to form ethical and moral
judgments using the accumulated knowledge of the ages, have the right
to take the lives of other sentient organisms, particularly when we are
not forced to do so by hunger or dietary need, but rather do so for the
somewhat frivolous reason that we like the taste of meat? In essence,
should'nt we know better?
-Peter Cheeke
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
Animals can't really voice their opinion. We feel as though we can be
on of the spokespeople on their behalf.
-River Phoniex
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
Men hunt I think maybe because they have something wrong with thier own
equipment and they need something else to shoot.
-Pamela Anderson
I've always been very bonded to animals -- more so than most people.
(laughs) I don't think that they can defend themselves, so we have to
help them.
-Jennie Garth
There can be no justification for causing suffering to animals simply
to serve man's pleasure or simply to enhance man's lifestyle."
-The Dean of York
The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our
job is to salvage Mother Nature...We are facing a formidable enemy in
this field. It is the hunters...and to convince them to leave their
guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.
-Jacques Cousteau
Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is--whether
its victim is human or animal--we cannot expect things to be much
better in this world... We cannot have peace among men whose hearts
delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or
even tolerates such moronic delight in killing we set back the progress
of humanity.
-Rachel Carson
I despise and abhor the pleas on behalf of that infamous practice,
vivisection... I would rather submit to the worst of deaths, so far as
pain goes, than have a single dog or cat tortured to death on the
pretense of sparing me a twinge or two.
-Robert Browning (poet)
I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They
lived next to each other in separate cages for several months before I
used one as a heart donor. When we put him to sleep in his cage in
preparation for the operation, he chattered and cried incessantly. We
attached no significance to this, but it must have made a great
impression on his companion, for when we removed the body to the
operating room, the other chimp wept bitterly and was inconsolable for
days. The incident made a deep impression on me. I vowed never again to
experiment with such sensitive creatures."
-Christian Barnard
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is
concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and
organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of
pain and fear.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
When I was 12, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was
laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill
this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.
-Marv Levy
The person who kills for fun is announcing that, could he get away with
it, he'd kill you for fun. Your...life may be of no consequence to
anyone else but is invaluable to you because it's the only one you've
got. Exactly the same is true of each individual deer, hare, rabbit,
fox, fish, pheasant and butterfly. Humans should enjoy their own lives,
not taking others'. "
-Brigid Brophy
There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with
a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
-Isaac Bashevis Singer
Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric
story.
-Mary Tyler Moore
Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we
have no right to do it. A woman gains status when she refuses to see
anything killed to be put on her back. Then she's truly beautiful.
-Doris Day
Fur used to turn heads, now it turns stomachs.
-Rue McClanahan
Human beings are the only animals of which I am throughly and cravenly
afraid.
-George Bernard Shaw
Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with
animals' suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't
vote.
-Paul Harvey
You ask people why they have deer heads on the wall. They always say,
Because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother's
attractive, but I have photographs of her.
-Ellen DeGeneres
Animals are God's creatures, not human property, nor utilities, nor
resources, nor commodities, but precious beings in God's sight.
...Christians whose eyes are fixed on the awfulness of crucifixion are
in a special position to understand the awfulness of innocent
suffering. The Cross of Christ is God's absolute identification with
the weak, the powerless, and the vulnerable, but most of all with
unprotected, undefended, innocent suffering.
-Rev. Andrew Linzey
How can you eat anything with eyes?
-Will Kellogg
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
Compassion is the foundation of everything positive, everything good.
If you carry the power of compassion to the marketplace and the dinner
table, you can make your life really count.
-Rue McClanahan
Animals are my friends-and I don't eat my friends.
-George Bernard Shaw
As custodians of the planet it is our responsibility to deal with all
species with kindness, love and compassion. That these animals suffer
through human cruelty is beyond understanding. Please help to stop this
madness.
-Richard Gere
I know what it feels like to be hurt, and I don't want to cause that
pain to any other person or creature. But somehow, in society, we numb
ourselves in order to make money or to feel better about ourselves,
such as with cosmetics or food. We say to ourselves, I'm going to use
this animal. I'm going to say it doesn't have much worth so that I can
allow myself to do these cruel things. And that just isn't fair.
-Alicia Silverstone
I don't have any understanding of a human being who doesn't respect the
beauty of life and that goes for all creatures that have
thoughts,feelings and needs.
-Alicia Silverstone
My respect and empathy towards animals includes sea dwellers too from
dolphins to fish to lobsters. So, of course, I wouldn't dream of eating
them.
-Alexandra Paul
I haven't bought any leather articles for a very long time. My ideal is
to be able to avoid all animal products, in food as well as clothing.
-Martina Navratilova
If you could see or feel the suffering you wouldn't think twice. Give
back life. Don't eat meat.
-Kim Basinger
I grew up in cattle country-that's why I became a vegetarian. Meat
stinks, for the animals, the environment, and your health.
-K.D. Lang
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
There were no Slaughterhouses in the Garden of Eden.
-Unknown
You're thinking I'm one of those wise-ass California vegetarians who is
going to tell you that eating a few strips of bacon is bad for your
health. I'm not. I say its a free country and you should be able to
kill yourself at any rate you choose, as long as your cold dead body is
not blocking my driveway.
-Scott Adams
I have reached zero tolerance for the cruelty against our animal
brothers. If we are to nuture our culture, let's begin with the animals
who have been nothing but our beasts of burden for so long.
-Riki Rockett
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
Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and
are called medical research.
-George Bernard Shaw
I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that
are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it
inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it,
and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking
further.
-Mark Twain
What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is
not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?
-Jeremy Bentham
Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the distinguishing vices of low and
base minds. Wherever it is found, it is a certain mark of ignorance and
meanness; a mark which all the external advantages of wealth,
splendour, and nobility, cannot obliterate. It is consistent neither
with learning nor true civility.
-William Jones
This is the sum of duty: do naught to others which if done to thee,
would cause thee pain.
-Mahabharata
If man is not to stifle his human feelings, he must practice kindness
towards animals, for he who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in
his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment
of animals.
-Immanuel Kant
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the
way its animals are treated.
-Mohandas Gandhi
He who harms animals has not understood or renounced deeds of sin ...
Those whose minds are at peace and who are free from passions do not
desire to live at the expense of others.
-Acharanga Sutra
People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a
justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we
should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since
this has also been done since the earliest of times.
-Isaac Singer
I abhor vivisection. It should at least be curbed. Better, it should be
abolished. I know of no achievement through vivisection, no scientific
discovery, that could not have been obtained without such barbarism and
cruelty. The whole thing is evil.
-Charles Mayo (founder of the Mayo Clinic)
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 D. Barnard, M.D
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
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
Can you really ask what reason Pythagoras had for abstaining from
flesh? For my part I rather wonder both by what accident and in what
state of soul or mind the first man did so, touched his mouth to gore
and brought his lips to the flesh of a dead creature, he who set forth
tables of dead, stale bodies and ventured to call food and nourishment
the parts that had little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived.
How could his eyes endure the slaughter when throats were slit and
hides flayed and limbs torn from limb? How could his nose endure the
stench? How was it that the pollution did not turn away his taste,
which made contact with the sores of others and sucked juices and
serums from mortal wounds? It is certainly not lions and wolves that we
eat out of self-defense; on the contrary, we ignore these and slaughter
harmless,tame creatures without stings or teeth to harm us, creatures
that, I swear, Nature appears to have produced for the sake of their
beauty and grace. But nothing abashed us, not the flower-like like
tinting of the flesh, not the persuasiveness of the harmonious voice,
not the cleanliness of their habits or the unusual intelligence that
may be found in the poor wretches. No, for the sake of a little flesh
we deprive them of sun, of light, of the duration of life to which they
are entitled by birth and being.
-Plutarch
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
I spoke often in Congress against the war in Vietnam. And commented on
congress persons hiding from the reality of war by saying 'many eat the
meat but few go to the slaughterhouse'. I said it so often I became a
vegetarian.
-Rep. Andrew Jacobs
For many years the media have been afraid of the Goliath power of the meat industry. (But David is coming!)
-Pegeen Fitzgerald
Some people are still going to want to eat meat.. we do agree though
that vegetarianism is a healthier diet.
-David Stroud of the American Meat Institute
We should live in harmony with Earth not conquer it.. or the animals.
The other members of the National Football League say I'm in the
minority.. but they are. A majority of the world is vegetarian.
-Former Steelers football Player Glenn Scolnick
I do not believe that any of the suffering I have caused to laboratory
animals has helped humanity in the slightest.
-Richard Ryder
It is a surprisingly close progression from hunting animals to hunting
and torturing people.. catching and lynching blacks or smoking out Jews
during the Holocaust.
-Aviva Cantor
More and more we realize that the vegetarian diet is a good idea.
-Dr. Edward Martin
Thousands of animals(now billions) are butchered every day without a
shadow of remorse. It cries vengeance upon all the human race.
-Romain Rolland
Since visiting the abatoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat.
-Vincent Van Gogh
Arson and cruelty to animals are 2 of 3 childhood warning signs
regarding the potential to be a serial killer.(To no longer objectify
living beings by ceasing hunting and fishing takes one l step further
away from the murder of humans.)
-John Douglas
May all that have life be delivered from suffering.
-Buddha
I went snorkeling and noticed how gently the fish welcomed us into
their world.. as compared to the violence with which we welcomed them
into ours. I became a vegetarian.
-Syndee Brinkman
Martin Luther King taught us all nonviolence. I was told to extend
nonviolence to the mother and her calf.
-Dick Gregory
Whenever we cause suffering or death to any other being, we cause
suffering to the Great Life Force.
-Shik Po Chih
He is a heavy eater of beef. Me thinks it doth harm to his wit.
-Shakespeare in "Twelfth Night"
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
I would not want to get to know a pig very well if I intended to eat
him.
-Pat Leigh
The awful cruelty and terror to which tens of thousands of animals
killed for human food are subjected in traveling long distances by ship
and rail and road to the slaughterhouses of the world. God disapproves
of all cruelty.. whether to man or beast. The occupation of
slaughtering animals is brutalising to those who are required to do the
work.... I believe this matter is well worthy of the serious
consideration of Christian leaders.
-Mrs. Booth and General Bramwell Booth of the Salvation Army
40 years ago on the set of Gunsmoke I read the book The Holy Science.
Since then I have not eaten meat.
-Dennis Weaver
Cruelty to animals can become violence to humans.
-Ali MacGraw
Hunters are to the arms industry what smokers are to the tobacco
industry. Smokers get a nicotine rush. Hunters get an adrenalin rush
from killing a living being.
-Jim R
Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them the higher food
yield as a solution to world hunger.
-John Denver
The world's environment can no longer handle beef.
-Jeremy Rifkin of Beyond Beef
Oprah has power because Oprah is believable. People do not believe the
beef industry. Shouldn't we be more concerned about the first amendment
rather than protecting powerful agribusiness?
-Morton Downey
Once I was fishing and caught the hook in the fish's eye. That was the
last time I ate a killed creature.
-Janet Barkas
One day the world will look upon research upon animals as it now looks
upon research on human beings.
-Leonardo Da Vinci
We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred
trust to us from our heavenly Father. They are dumb and cannot speak
for themselves.
-Harriet Beecher Stowe
One is dearest to God who has no enemies among the living beings, who
is nonviolent to all creatures.
-Bhagavad Gita
To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.
-Buddha
Meat is dirty. I wouldn't touch a hot dog without a condom on it.
-Bill Maher
I'm picky when it comes to food-as long as there's no meat in it.
-Orlando Bloom
People who wear fur coats and get paint on them? F--- 'em. It may not