"While we ourselves
are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions
on this earth?"
-- George
Bernard Shaw
We
are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites.
How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?
--
George Bernard Shaw
It
is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation, that it
is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion; and that the sight of its
bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley
By
all that is sacred in our hope for the human race, I conjure those who love happiness
and truth to give a fair trial to the vegetable system!
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley
 |
“Children who grow up getting
nutrition from plant foods rather than meats have a tremendous health advantage.
They are less likely to develop weight problems, diabetes, high blood pressure
and some forms of cancer”
-- Dr.
Benjamin Spock |
 | Once
people spend time with farm animals in a loving way ... a pig or cow or a little
chicken or a turkey, they might find they relate with them the same way they relate
with dogs and cats. People don't really think of them that way because they're
on the plate. Why should they be food when other animals are pets? I would never
eat my doggies.
-- Alicia
Silverstone |
When
a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.
Man prays for mercy, but is unwilling to extend it to others. Why the should man
expect mercy from God? It is unfair to expect something that you are not willing
to give.
-- Isaac B. Singer
Nothing
more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression
on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
~Robert Louis Stevenson
| I have no doubt
that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement,
to leave off eating animals.
-- Henry
David Thoreau No
humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature
which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.
-- Henry
David Thoreau | 
|
 | Vegetarianism
serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection
on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere.
-- Leo
Tolstoy |
If
he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which
he will abstain will always be the use of animal food, because ...its use is simply
immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral
feeling -- killing.
-- Leo
Tolstoy
A
human can be healthy without killing animals for food. Therefore if he eats meat
he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And
to act so is immoral.
-- Leo
Tolstoy
"Thou
shalt not kill" does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living
beings; and this Commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it
was proclaimed from Sinai.
-- Leo
Tolstoy
As
long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields.
-- Leo
Tolstoy
I
think there's something odd about eating another living anything.
--
Shania Twain
Vegetarian
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