VEGETARIANISM QUOTES IV

quotations about vegetarianism

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

RABINDRANATH TAGORE

Glimpses of Bengal Letters

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Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food.

ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Kitchen Confidential


Vegetarianism is not only optimally healthy for your body, but your environment and the planet's animals. It allows you to live more harmoniously with the world around you, which improves mental and emotional health accordingly.

WINGS OF SUCCESS

The Advantages of Being a Vegetarian


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

attributed, The Perfectly Contented Meat-eater's Guide to Vegetarianism

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Thousands of people who say they "love" animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been utterly deprived of everything that could make their lives worth living and who endured the awful suffering and the terror of the abattoirs.

JANE GOODALL

The Ten Trusts


We were all brainwashed to believe that the only source of protein was meat and cheese.

SUZANNE HAVALA

101 Reasons why I'm a Vegetarian


The repugnance I have come to feel about eating such animals is an extension of what I would feel about eating my pet cat rather than the product of some calculation of quanta of suffering.

THOMAS WELLS

"The Incoherence of Peter Singer's Utilitarian Argument for Vegetarianism", ABC Online, October 25, 2016


Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.

FRAN LEBOWITZ

attributed, Food and Drink: A Book of Quotations

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Those who eat flesh are but eating grains and vegetables at second hand; for the animal receives from these things the nutrition that produces growth. The life that was in the grains and the vegetables passes into the eater. We receive it by eating the flesh of the animal. How much better to get it direct by eating the food that God provided for our use!

ELLEN WHITE

Health and Happiness


Despite the fact that an Indonesian island chicken has probably had a much more natural life than one raised on a battery farm in England, people who wouldn't think twice about buying something oven-ready become much more upset about a chicken that they've been on a boat with, so there is probably buried in the Western psyche a deep taboo about eating anything you've been introduced to socially.

DOUGLAS ADAMS

Last Chance to See

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I'm a postmodern vegetarian -- I eat meat ironically.

BILL BAILEY

Part Troll


When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian is ill (which fortunately very seldom happens), everyone assures him that he is going to die, and that they told him so, and that it serves him right. They implore him to take at least a little gravy, so as to give himself a chance of lasting out the night.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Saturday Review, May 21, 1898

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I tell vegetarians, "Hey, vegetables are living things too. They're just easier to catch."

KEVIN BRENNAN

attributed, The Mammoth Book of Comic Quotes


I advance no exaggerated or fanciful claim for Vegetarianism. It is not, as some have asserted, a "panacea" for human ills; it is something much more rational -- an essential part of the modern humanitarian movement, which can make no true progress without it. Vegetarianism is the diet of the future, as flesh-food is the diet of the past.

HENRY S. SALT

"The Humanities of Diet", Ethical Vegetarianism

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The meat-free lobby has been rebranding quietly for a while. Certainly, all but the most entrenched dinosaurs have forsworn the prejudice that all vegans and vegetarians are a feeble cohort of joyless neurotics, trussed up in hemp. Today, vegetarians especially are a mainstream minority: they've smartened up their menus and their look. Indeed, perhaps you would even consider going out with one.

PHOEBE LOCKHURST

"Vegetarian London: the best new dishes", Evening Standard, April 5, 2017


The meat industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars lying to the public about their product. But no amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat. The facts are absolutely clear: Eating meat is bad for human health, catastrophic for the environment, and a living nightmare for animals.

CHRISSIE HYNDE

attributed, Meaty Vegan Blog


Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox.

ISAAC LEIB PERETZ

Taanis Gedanken


Sooner or later, we'll all be on the menu.

ROD SERLING

"To Serve Man", The Twilight Zone


If we each had to butcher our own meat, there would be a great increase in the number of vegetarians.

ERNEST HOWARD CROSBY

Tolstoy and His Message


Vegetables contain more nutriment than an equal amount of dead flesh. This will sound a surprising and incredible statement to many people, because they have been brought up to believe that they cannot exist unless they defile themselves with flesh, and this delusion is so widely spread that it is difficult to awaken the average man from it.

C. W. LEADBEATER

Vegetarianism and Occultism

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