Vegan Quotes - Page 12

• Cheap meat is the problem. The answer is to replace meat recipes with vegan meals.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Meat, Meals, Answers

  "Here’s a Recipe for Roast Chicken Everyone Should Find Objectionable" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2012.

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• Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives to dissection in schools, the modern ways to test medicines without killing rabbits and beagles, the many forms of entertainment involving purely human performers.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  School, Medicine, Choices

  "Every Week There is More Reason to Feel Empathy for Animals" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2009.

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• Stop being a vegan and start enjoying what you eat.

  Jamie Oliver

  Enjoy

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

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• Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

  George Orwell

  Mean, Two, Mind

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 2, ch. 9 (1949)

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• Being vegan is not a matter of "lifestyle." It is a matter of fundamental moral obligation. Is being vegan a matter of "choice"? Only insofar as we are able to choose to ignore our moral obligations not to exploit the vulnerable.

  Gary L. Francione

  Choices, Fundamentals, Matter

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• Starvation does not occur because of a world food shortage. If everyone ate a vegetarian, or better still, a vegan diet there would be enough food for everyone. The only sane way forward is to grow food for humans rather than to feed it to farmed animals.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Animal, Way Forward, Doe

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• Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Food, Cooking, Enemy

  Anthony Bourdain (2013). “Kitchen Confidential”, p.78, A&C Black

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• But all the vitamins, amino acids, protein etc. needed to get stronger can be found in abundance in plant foods. Anything that is a fruit, nut, grain or seed is vegan and there are thousands of those.

  Robert Cheeke

  Nuts, Stronger, Fruit

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• The wrongfulness, the immorality of eating animal food has been recognized by all mankind during all the conscious life of humanity. Why, then have people generally not come to acknowledge this law? The answer is that the moral progress of humanity is always slow; but that the sign of true, not casual Progress, is in uninterruptedness and its continual acceleration. And one cannot doubt that vegetarianism has been progressing in this manner

  Leo Tolstoy

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Law

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• Beyond my desire to boycott the torture factories, I am also way happier when I eat a plant-based diet, and I feel about a thousand times more energetic.

  Olivia Wilde

  Animal, Desire, Way

  "Olivia Wilde Named PETA's Sexiest Vegetarian of 2010", www.mtv.com. July 01, 2010.

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• I don't. I look my age; and I am my age. It is the other people who look older than they are. What can you expect from people who eat corpses and drink spirits?

  George Bernard Shaw

  People, Age, Looks

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• I've found that a person does not need protein from meat to be a successful athlete. In fact, my best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet.

  Carl Lewis

  Athlete, Successful, Years

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• How can you say you're trying to spiritually evolve, without even a thought about what happens to the animals whose lives are sacrificed in the name of gluttony?

  Oprah Winfrey

  Animal, Names, Trying

  "Oprah's vegan diet has power to inspire fans" by Heather Moore, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2008.

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• I'm really not an angry vegan, but human beings are f***ing rude.

  Russell Simmons

  Rude, Humans, Angry

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• There is something about veganism that is not easy, but the difficulty is not inherent in veganism, but in our culture.

  Will Tuttle

  Culture, Vegetarian, Easy

  Will Tuttle (2016). “World Peace Diet (Tenth Anniversary Edition): Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony”, p.207

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• The most fertile districts of the habitable globe are now actually cultivated by men for animals, at a delay and waste of aliment absolutely incapable of calculation

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Animal, Men, Delay

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1821). “Queen Mab, a philosophical poem, with notes. [reputed to have been given by the author to W. Francis. Wanting the title-leaf, dedication and part of the last leaf].”, p.173

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• A dinner! How horrible! I am to be made the pretext for killing all those wretched animals and birds, and fish! Thank you for nothing. Now if it were to be a fast instead of a feast; say a solemn three days' abstention from corpses in my honour, I could at least pretend to believe that it was disinterested. Blood sacrifices are not in my line

  George Bernard Shaw

  Believe, Sacrifice, Animal

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• I'll remind you one more time, I've treated a lot of vegans for heart disease.

  Caldwell Esselstyn

  Heart, Disease, More Time

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• In the final analysis, despite our diversity, there is only one type of vegan -- a person who is committed to and practices a reverence and respect for all life.

  Joanne Stepaniak

  Practice, Diversity, Finals

  Joanne Stepaniak (2000). “Being Vegan”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• This is a message to all those out there who think that you need animal products to be fit and strong. Almost two years after becoming vegan I am stronger than ever before and I am still improving day by day.

  Patrik Baboumian

  Strong, Animal, Thinking

  "555kg yoke-carry for 10m in the middle of Berlin". Youtube video, www.youtube.com. September 1, 2013.

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• When we turn away from the reality of what we do to animals for our gustatory pleasure, we play a game of pretend, like the child who covers her eyes and thinks you can't see her. And yet, there she remains. Closing our eyes doesn't make violence disappear; it only closes our minds and hearts and enables the violence to continue.

  Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

  Children, Heart, Eye

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• Eating meat is a leftover of the greatest brutality [killing]; the transition to vegetarianism is the first and most natural consequence of enlightenment.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Vegetarianism, Enlightenment, Meat

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• I think what I'd really like to see would be a mass consciousness-raising movement so that we would all become vegetarian.

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, Would Be, Movement

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• If you are interested in preventing animal suffering, the first thing you should give up is eggs and milk, because the animals who produce those foods lead the most unhappy lives. You would do better to eat meat and stop eating eggs and dairy products.

  Cesar Chavez

  Giving Up, Happy Life, Animal

  "The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals". Book by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, October 31, 2003.

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• The idolatry of food cuts across class lines. This can be seen in the public's toleration of a level of cruelty in meat production that it would tolerate nowhere else. If someone inflicts pain on an animal for visual, aural, or sexual gratification, we consider him a monster, and the law makes at least a token effort at punishment. If someone's goal is to put the "product" in his mouth?

  Brian Reynolds Myers

  Pain, Cutting, Animal

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