Vegetarian Health Quotes - Page 3

• It is significant to note that those who live on vegetarian food are less prone to diseases, whereas non-vegetarians are subject to more diseases. Why? Because animal food is incompatible with the needs of the human body.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Animal, Needs, Body

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• A woman gains status when she refuses to see anything killed to be put on her back. Then she’s truly beautiful.

  Doris Day

  Beautiful, Animal, Vegetarianism

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• Excessive animal protein is at the core of many chronic diseases.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Funny Inspirational, Animal, Disease

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• There's so many vegetarian foods now that are available at the market . The same with drive-throughs. Now, a lot of them serve veggie burgers just like the restaurants are doing. So, it's really very easy.

  Kevin Nealon

  Vegetarianism, Vegan Food, Burgers

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• My best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet.

  Carl Lewis

  Years, Track, Competition

  Introduction to "Very Vegetarian" by Jannequin Bennett, 2001.

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• 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.

  Linda McCartney

  Wall, Pain, Feel Better

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• Nobody really needs a mink coat... Except the mink.

  Glenda Jackson

  Needs, Coats, Vegetarian

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• If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

  Albert Einstein

  Zoos, Cat, Animal

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• We are the living graves of murdered beasts.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Animal, Vegetarian Diet, Vegetarianism

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• Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Ethics, Vegetarian

  Jim Mason, Peter Singer (1980). “Animal Factories”, Crown

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• 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

  Life, Death, Animal

  Leo Tolstoy, J. M. Packham (2015). “Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers”, p.42, Lulu Press, Inc

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• 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

  Country, Animal, Meat

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• In all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses.

  H. G. Wells

  Animal, Vegetarianism, World

  H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.1995, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Sight, Vegetarian Diet, Vegetarianism

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1839). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.86

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• The human body has no more need for cows' milk than it does for dogs' milk, horses' milk, or giraffes' milk.

  Michael Klaper

  Dog, Horse, Health

  "Meatonomics: How the Rigged Economics of Meat and Dairy Make You Consume Too Much–and How to Eat Better, Live Longer, and Spend Smarter". Book by David Robinson Simon, September 2013.

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• We all love animals. Why do we call some 'pets' and others 'dinner?'

  K. D. Lang

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Pet

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• 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

  Vegetarianism, People, Meat

  "The vegetarians". Book by Rynn Berry, p. 64, 1979.

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• 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

  Funny, Witty, Baby

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• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Vegan Food, Flesh, Stage

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.151, Rajpal & Sons

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• If you step back and look at the data, the optimum amount of red meat you eat should be zero.

  Walter Willett

  Zero, Vegetarianism, Data

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• 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

  Pain, Passion, Animal

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• The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.

  Thomas More

  Life, Death, Animal

  Thomas More (2016). “More: Utopia”, p.58, Cambridge University Press

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• The thinking (person) 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.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Nature, Philosophical, Animal

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• I think there's something odd about eating another living anything.

  Shania Twain

  Funny Inspirational, Thinking, Vegetarianism

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  If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.

  Paul McCartney

  Wall, Food, Health

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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