Sharon Gannon Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

• It is a fact that the ecological devastation of the planet can be traced to the consumption of meat and dairy, which contributes to water, soil, and air pollution as well as global warming and the mass extinction of many species of plant and animal forms.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Air, Mass Extinction

• All breathing beings are spiritual; this includes everyone who breathes, whether they are animals or humans, carnivores or vegetarians.

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  Spiritual, Animal, Breathing

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

• Through the practices of yoga, we discover that concern for the happiness and well being of others, including animals, must be an essential part of our own quest for happiness and well being. The fork can be a powerful weapon of mass destruction or a tool to create peace on Earth.

  Sharon Gannon

  Success, Powerful, Yoga

• Most of the food crops raised in the world today are fed to livestock destined for slaughter for us to eat, and most of the water used is used to raise the food crops that are fed to those animals. It has been estimated that, because of the extraordinary amount of grain it takes to raise food animals, if we reduced the amount of meat we eat by only ten percent, that would free up enough grain to feed all the starving humans in the world. So when we choose to eat meat instead of vegetables, we are choosing to take food away from others who are hungry.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Vegetables, Water

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

• In fact, we would know ourselves that we are not meant to be meat eaters, and we would not have allowed ourselves to become conditioned to meat eating in the first place, if the effects of meat eating were felt right away. But since heart disease, cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis, etc. usually take many years to develop, we are able to separate them from their cause (or contributing factors) and go on happily eating an animal-based diet.

  Sharon Gannon

  Cancer, Heart, Animal

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

• In fact, numerous scientific laboratory tests and field observations have led to the conclusion that animals are conscious, intelligent, emotional beings. They are not machines and truly feel physical pain when it is inflicted upon them. They are capable of experiencing a wide range of emotions, including loneliness, embarrassment, sadness, longing, depression, anxiety, panic, and fear, as well as joy, relief, surprise, happiness, contentment, and peace.

  Sharon Gannon

  Pain, Loneliness, Sadness

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

• By working to alleviate the suffering of animals you are working at the cause level of human suffering.

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  Animal, Suffering, Levels

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

• Eating meat and dairy products is the SAD (Standard American Diet) diet. The SAD diet can only make you sad. It causes heart disease, cancer, diabetes and makes you fat. Raising animals for food destroys the environment... And those animals are not happy. They are enslaved and live humiliating, fearful lives of abuse and tremendous suffering. Veganism turns sadness into joy.

  Sharon Gannon

  Cancer, Sadness, Heart

  "Choose Joy, Eat Vegan". Mantra Yoga + Health Magazine, August 7, 2014.

• Large factory trawlers indiscriminately scrape and haul up everything from the ocean floor, along with everyone unfortunate enough to get caught in the nets. Roughly one-third of what is dragged in is not profitable fish, but other sea animals, including turtles, whales, dolphins, seals, and seabirds. These beings are referred to by the fishing industry as "by-catch." Severely traumatized and wounded, these animals are subsequently thrown back into the ocean, dead or dying.

  Sharon Gannon

  Ocean, Animal, Turtles

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

• Raising crops to feed animals for human consumption requires a lot of land. It takes eight or nine cows a year to feed one average meat eater; each cow eats one acre of green plants, soybeans and corn per year; so it takes eight or nine acres of plants a year to feed one meat eater, compared with only half an acre to feed one vegetarian.

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  Animal, Eight, Average

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

• We enslave, torture and then slaughter animals to eat them, then when we eventually become sick from that we enslave, torture and kill more animals in laboratories in the hopes of creating drugs to enable us to continue with our animal-abusive lifestyle! Few of us look to the future (i.e., to our parents and grandparents), see the effects of an omnivorous lifestyle, and opt out of it before it makes us sick.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Creating, Sick

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

• We are so unconscious about our actions that we don't even realize the immense suffering we are causing to animals, the planet, and ourselves.

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  Animal, Suffering, Our Actions

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

• It is a testament to the effectiveness of advertising campaigns funded by the animal-user industries that a diet that is bad for us and harmful to the planet is thought of as "normal" and a diet that promotes health, happiness, and well-being is thought of as alternative, abnormal, or faddish. In fact, these days it is relatively easy to find vegetarian options in many restaurants and supermarkets, though you may have to ask.

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  Animal, Effectiveness, Alternatives

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

• We are the only animals who steal and drink the milk from other species.

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  Animal, Milk, Drink

  "Ask Sharon Gannon about Yoga & Veganism: Holy Cow!". ORIGIN MAgazine Interveiw, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• Farm animals, like dairy cows - who by nature are vegans - are routinely force-fed fish to increase their weight and milk production.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Weight, Cows

• Most of the plants grown to be fed to farm animals are heavily saturated with pesticides and herbicides and have been genetically modified, all of which contributes to the pollution and destruction of our environment, which harms us all.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Pesticides, Environment

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

• Farms, whether small or large, are places where slaves are kept. The animals are fattened up to be eaten, or exploited for their ability to make honey or milk, or for their fur, wool or body parts; they are kept as breeders to produce more animals who can in turn be exploited and ultimately sold, slaughtered, and eaten.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Wool, Fur

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

• Today's fishing industry supplies land farms with fish as well. Over fifty percent of the fish caught is fed to livestock on factory farms and "regular" farms. It is an ingredient in the enriched "feed meal" fed to livestock. Farm animals, like cows, who by nature are vegans, are routinely force-fed fish as well as the flesh, blood, and manure of other animals. It may take sixteen pounds of grain to make one pound of beef, but it also takes one hundred pounds of fish to make that one pound of beef.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Blood, Fishing

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

• When I see a person wearing a fur coat, I see not only the coat but the animals who were cruelly abused, killed and skinned to make that coat, and also I see the person wearing that coat being reborn as a poor fox crazily circulating in a tiny cage waiting to be skinned. And I see the poor dairy cow who has been raped and exploited, and in the same picture, I see the new future dairy cow taking her place, in the form of that person putting milk in her coffee, today.

  Sharon Gannon

  Coffee, Animal, Waiting

• On average, most people consume between 100 - 120 grams of protein per day. Not only is that unhealthy, it's extremely dangerous, as the majority of the protein consumed is animal based.

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  Animal, Average, People

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

• If we want to consider the sanctity of life in deciding what to eat, the choice is clear. Eating a plant based diet causes less harm, to ourselves, to the other animals, to the planet.

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  Animal, Choices, Want

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

• Some people may argue that if the animals are treated humanely prior to being slaughtered, this justifies their confinement and slaughter. Is it ethical to rob beings of their freedom but give them a comfortable prison and provide them with food until they become fat enough to be slaughtered? Any way you look at it, farms are places where animals are kept in preparation to be slaughtered and ultimately eaten as food.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, People, Giving

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

• The raising of animals for food and all that it entails is the single most destructive force impacting our planet's fragile ecosystems. Our planet simply cannot sustain the greed of billions of human beings who are eating other animals.

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  Animal, Ecosystems, Greed

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

• Some meat eaters defend meat eating by pointing out that it is natural: in the wild, animals eat one another. The animals that end up on our breakfast, lunch, and dinner plates, however, aren't those who normally eat other animals. The animals we exploit for food are not the lions and tigers and bears of the world. For the most part, we eat the gentle vegan animals. However, on today's farms, we actually force them to become meat eaters by making them eat feed containing the rendered remains of other animals, which they would never eat in the wild.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Meat Eating, Lunch

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

• I passionately feel that as long as we view ourselves as superior and other animals as exploitable our consciousness will remain stuck in a level of ignorance that will disallow a full realization of the truth underlying reality.

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  Ignorance, Reality, Animal

  "Chanting Compassion with David Life & Sharon Gannon". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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