Meat Consumption Quotes

• A reduction in meat consumption is the most powerful single act that you can take to halt the destruction of our environment and preserve our natural resources.

  John Robbins

  Powerful, Vegetarian, Vegan

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• A man can live and 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.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Food, Health, Animal

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1911). “The novels and other works of Lyof N. Tolstoï”

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• Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use... It's time we looked into holding the meat producers and fast-food outlets legally accountable.

  Neal Barnard

  Hands, Use, Animal Rights

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• Elsewhere the paper notes that vegetarians and vegans (including athletes) 'meet and exceed requirements' for protein. And, to render the whole we-should-worry-about-getting-enough-protein-and-therefore-eat-meat idea even more useless, other data suggests that excess animal protein intake is linked with osteoporosis, kidney disease, calcium stones in the urinary tract, and some cancers. Despite some persistent confusion, it is clear that vegetarians and vegans tend to have more optimal protein consumption than omnivores.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Cancer, Food, Athlete

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, March 4, 2010..

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• A human can be healthy without killing animals for food.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Food, Animal, Vegetarianism

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• A reduction of meat consumption by only 10% would result in about 12 million more tons of grain for human consumption. This additional grain could feed all of the humans across the world who starve to death each year- about 60 million people!

  Marc Bekoff

  Years, People, World

  Marc Bekoff (2007). “Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect”, p.119, Shambhala Publications

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• Meat consumption shouldn't be normal.

  Gene Baur

  Meat, Normal, Consumption

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• The current treatment of animals in the livestock trade definitely renders the consumption of meat as halachically unacceptable as the product of illegitimate means. ... As it is halachically prohibited to harm oneself and as healthy, nutritious vegetarian alternatives are easily available, meat consumption has become halachically unjustifiable.

  David Rosen

  Mean, Animal, Healthy

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