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.

  Sharon Gannon

  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

• It's important to understand that calcium isn't just about what you eat; it's also about what you keep. Acidic animal products mine minerals like potassium, magnesium and calcium from our bodies. In fact, the countries that consume the most dairy have the highest rates of hip fracture and osteoporosis.

  Sharon Gannon

  Country, Animal, Osteoporosis

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

• Because we lack sharp claws, aren't very fast on our feet, and aren't exactly endowed with lightning reflexes, it would be very difficult if not impossible for us to run down an animal, catch it with our bare hands, and tear through its fur and skin in order to eat it. Biologically, we are designed to be frugivorous herbivores eating mainly fruits, seeds, roots, and leaves.

  Sharon Gannon

  Running, Animal, Hands

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

• Is it really that much better to make friends with animals before you kill them than to treat them as nameless, faceless objects before you kill them? From a yogic point of view, one must weigh the karmic consequences of perceiving others as mere objects to be used and the consequences of profiting from the suffering of others.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Views, Suffering Of Others

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

• It is true that every being is enjoying life or suffering as a direct result of his or her own past actions. The animals in the factory farms may have been meat-eating human beings in a previous birth; we don't know, and it is not our place to judge.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Past, Meat Eating

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

• Lions and other carnivorous animals do eat meat, but that doesn't mean we should. They would die if they didn't eat meat. Human beings, in contrast, choose to eat meat; it isn't a physiological necessity.

  Sharon Gannon

  Mean, Animal, Meat

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

• The fact is that eating meat and dairy is bad for your health, the health of the animals eaten, as well as the health of the planet.

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  Animal, Meat, Facts

• Yes, all of life is sacred, including plants; and yes, there is research that demonstrates that plants have feelings - they feel it when their leaves or stems are ripped - and there is scientific evidence that while plants do not have brains and nervous systems like animals, they nevertheless actively work to ensure their survival - they want to live, thrive, reproduce, evolve.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Feelings, Brain

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

• We have been conditioned, taught, and coerced by the agents of our culture (parents, grandparents, advertisers, food critic, etc.) to eat the flesh and drink the milk of other animals. Because of this conditioning, which has occurred over a long period of time (thousands of years), we have developed addictive eating habits and blinded ourselves to the facts of our biological system and its true needs.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Years, Long

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

• Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, use for entertainment or for any exploitative purpose.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Purpose, Use

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

• Knowing the truth about the hell-realms that animals have to endure, it would be wise of us to do our best now not to plant the karmic seeds that would cause us to be reborn as an animal in one of those hell realms.

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  Wise, Animal, Knowing

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

• Lions and other carnivorous animals do a lot of things besides eat meat. They live outdoors, not in houses; they don't wear clothes or drive around in cars; they usually sleep for many hours after eating a meal. Why cite just one of the many things that they do and argue that we should imitate them? This doesn't make much sense.

  Sharon Gannon

  Sleep, Animal, Clothes

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

• As humans, we do get to choose what we eat, and when we choose to eat a plant, we are eating (i.e., harming) just that plant, plus indirectly whatever nutrients that plant consumed over its lifetime (and we are also harming whatever beings may have been living on that plant or who were injured or killed in the harvesting process). But when we eat an animal, we are eating not just that animal, but also indirectly all of the plants and other beings that that animal ate over its lifetime - those plants became the flesh that we eat.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, May, Flesh

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

• The number of human deaths due to hardening of the arteries and other similar diseases suggests that human beings were not meant to eat animals; our bodies are unable to digest the animal fat effectively and it ends up stored in our blood vessels, not to mention our waist lines, buttocks and thighs!

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Blood, Numbers

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

• Welfarists are concerned with the quality of the animals' lives before or even during their slaughter and want animals to be treated, and slaughtered, "humanely." Welfarists don't necessarily feel that it is wrong for humans to use animals for our own purposes.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Quality, Purpose

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

• If yogis are to come to the realization of the interconnectedness of life, then we must free ourselves from the conditioning that has caused us to think it is all right to exclude all the other animals from our own goals of peace, freedom, and happiness.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Thinking, Goal

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

• The ridicule you may endure from others when you speak up for animals can help you to hone your skills, enabling you to become better at articulating your message in an informed, compassionate, and communicative way.

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  Animal, Skills, Enabling

• I'm totally into veganism and animal rights, but I'm not into being an angry and judgmental activist.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Rights, Judgmental

• Eating vegetables, fruits and grains rarely causes total destruction of the plant or tree on which the food grew; after harvesting, seeds remain to be replanted the next season. But this certainly does not happen when an animal is slaughtered - death is final; that animal will not reproduce again!

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Vegetables, Tree

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

• Arctic-dwelling Eskimos have no choice but to eat large amounts of meat and animal fat. But let's get our facts straight: according to the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Eskimos also have the highest incidences of heart disease and osteoporosis in the world and, in general, short life spans. Perhaps that is something to consider when we are faced with the choice of what to eat for dinner and unlike Eskimos most of us do have choices.

  Sharon Gannon

  Short Life, Heart, Animal

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

• It has been an obsession of human beings to create a hierarchy that places the human species on top and lumps all the "other animals" together beneath us. The resulting "speciesism" allows us to look upon animals as less deserving of all manner of rights and considerations than humans. To support this lower status, humans have argued that animals act instinctually; don't have souls; don't feel physical pain like we do; and lack self-consciousness, cognitive intelligence, emotional feelings, morality, and ethics.

  Sharon Gannon

  Pain, Animal, Emotional

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

• The way we treat animals is the root cause of all the human suffering in the world, from poverty, starvation, disease, and war to lack of clean air and water, not to mention all the varied forms of human emotional and spiritual suffering.

  Sharon Gannon

  Spiritual, War, Animal

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

• If we ourselves want to be free and happy then by enslaving and harming animals we will not be able to achieve our goal.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Goal, Want

  "An Interview With World-Renowned Yogini Sharon Gannon". Interview with Alicia Silverstone, thekindlife.com. September 17, 2014.

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