Vegan Quotes - Page 16

• I've always felt that animals are the purest spirits in the world. They don't fake or hide their feelings, and they are the most loyal creatures on Earth. And somehow we humans think we're smarter-what a joke.

  Pink

  Thinking, Animal, Fake

  "P!nk Tells Circus, ‘Pack Your Trunks!’". PETA Interview, www.peta2.com. July 18, 2011.

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• So you are the people tearing down the Brazilian rainforest and breeding cattle.

  Prince Philip

  People, Vegetarian, Breeding

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• I have reached zero tolerance for the cruelty against our animal brothers. If we are to nuture our culture, let's begin with the animals who have been nothing but our beasts of burden for so long.

  Rikki Rockett

  Brother, Zero, Animal

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• GE is the biggest polluter of the Hudson.. years ago they killed all the fish dumping millions of lbs. of pcb's into our waterways. Now let's make them pay for the cleanup.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Years, Pay, Vegetarian

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• Being around all the animals in the film Dr. .Doolittle made me one too.

  Samantha Eggar

  Animal, Drs, Vegetarian

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• I was raised on a dairy farm and ate plenty of meat and eggs until about twenty years ago. I started doing nutritional research, and a decade pr so after that my family made some major dietary changes. I'm just paying attention to what the data are telling me: The scientific evidence came first.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Years, Data, Eggs

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• It does take a little work to be a vegetarian but it's so worth it, oh it's so worth it!

  Tippi Hedren

  Doe, Littles, Vegetarian

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• When we kill animals to eat them they end up killing us because their flesh...was never intended for human beings, who are naturally herbivores.

  William C. Roberts

  Animal, Flesh, Vegetarian

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• Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Cages, Vegetarian, Used

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• Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it wouldn't be the most reasonable way to understand why you shouldn't do it.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Way, Killing, Prove

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

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• American children are the heaviest worldwide, and they are getting heavier at a faster rate than other children around the globe. This spread of obesity foreshadows an explosion in degenerative diseases, such as diabetes, heart disease, and cancer waiting to erupt in our children's future. Together we can stop this tragedy from ever happening.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Children, Cancer, Heart

  Joel Fuhrman, M.D. (2010). “Disease-Proof Your Child: Feeding Kids Right”, p.23, Macmillan

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• For me, it always has to be about health. That's why I'm a vegan. Well, I don't even do that for my health entirely, I do it for animals.

  Emily Deschanel

  Animal, Wells

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• In my experience of vegan food it tends to be a symphony of beige.

  Jay Rayner

  Food, Symphony, Vegan Food

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• The vegan diet is obviously lacking whatever essential nutrient it is that makes people likeable.

  Jim Goad

  People, Essentials, Likeable

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• Basically, the reason I'm vegan is because when I was about 16 or 17 years old, I began to understand that we don't need to contribute to the killing and exploitation of animals to feed our bodies correctly.

  Daniel Johns

  Animal, Years, Needs

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

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• I have not really experienced any significant conflict with anyone in regard to my choice to be vegan, although going out to eat is hard sometimes.

  Daniel Johns

  Choices, Going Out, Sometimes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm always active in trying to educate people when it comes to eating animal products, testing on animals, and the health benefits of being vegan, although I'm probably not the best person to be talking about the latter at the moment.

  Daniel Johns

  Animal, Talking, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be cruelty, but if a lot of people are unkind to animals (especially in the name of profit) the cruelty is condoned and will be defended by otherwise intelligent people.

  Ruth Harrison

  Animal, Intelligent, Names

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• None so blind as those who will not see.

  Matthew Henry

  Blind, American Gods, Stubbornness

  Matthew Henry (2010). “The New Matthew Henry Commentary: The Classic Work with Updated Language”, p.3624, Zondervan

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• None of that is necessary. It's not as if we're in a situation where it is us or them.There's something peculiar about talking about the moral status of animals, when we are killing and eating them for no reason whatsoever.

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Talking, Peculiar

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• What man with a human heart, who has ever cared for domestic animals, could look into their eyes, so full of confidence and affection, and willingly give them over to the butcher's knife? How could he devour their flesh as a sweet morsel?

  Ellen G. White

  Sweet, Eye, Heart

  Ellen G. White (2013). “Ellen G. White Miscellaneous Periodical Articles - Book III of III”, p.305, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Anyone who cares about the Earth - really cares - must stop eating animals.

  Linda McCartney

  Animal, Who Cares, Earth

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• It is true that the reluctance to abstain from animal food, in those who have been long accustomed to its stimulus, is so great in some persons of weak minds, as to be scarcely overcome; but this is far from bringing any argument in its favour

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Animal, Long, Mind

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume”

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• I’m not a true vegan. I dabble in sustainable fish and dawdle in the consumption of eggs. Steak doesn’t speak to me, and tempeh is so-so. I’ll savor a solitary apricot that’s been kissed by
  my baby.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Baby, Eggs, Apricots

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• A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do. But you'll also want to minimize the use of oils generally, because while olive oil and other vegetable oils are better for your heart than chicken fat, they are as fattening as animal fats.

  Neal Barnard

  Heart, Animal, Oil

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