Vegetarian Health Quotes

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.

A. Whitney Brown

Funny, Sarcastic, Hate

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If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.

Paul McCartney

Wall, Food, Health

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

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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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Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

Thomas Jefferson

Animal, Rights, Vegetarian Diet

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People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Animal, Vegetarianism, Practice

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The people of the future will say, 'meat-eaters!' in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.

Dennis Weaver

Vegetarianism, People, Meat

"The vegetarians". Book by Rynn Berry, p. 64, 1979.

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Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

George Bernard Shaw

Friendship, Food, Animal

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As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.

Pythagoras

Health, Animal, Men

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You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car.

Harvey Diamond

Funny, Witty, Baby

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A human can be healthy without killing animals for food.

Leo Tolstoy

Food, Animal, Meat Consumption

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You're thinking I'm one of those wise-ass California vegetarians who is going to tell you that eating a few strips of bacon is bad for your health. I'm not. I say its a free country and you should be able to kill yourself at any rate you choose, as long as your cold dead body is not blocking my driveway.

Scott Adams

Funny, Wise, Country

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How can you eat anything with eyes?

Will Keith Kellogg

Food, Health, Eye

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Some say vegetarianism is an alternative diet, but it is the original diet, the plan designed by God.

James Marcus

Vegetarianism, Alternatives, Plans

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Fur used to turn heads, now it turns stomachs.

Rue McClanahan

Fur, Vegetarian, Vegan

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Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it.

Doris Day

Animal, Vegetarianism, Coats

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Kids nowadays...tend to go overboard [on] protein - something I believe to be totally unnecsssary...[I state in] my formula for basic good eating: Eat about one gram of protein for every two pounds of body weight.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Believe, Kids, Body Weight

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My perspective of veganism was most affected by learning that the veal calf is a by-product of dairying, and that in essence there is a slice of veal in every glass of what I had thought was an innocuous white liquid - milk.

Rynn Berry

Glasses, Vegetarianism, Essence

"The Vegan Sourcebook". Book by Joanne Stepaniak (p. 40), 1998.

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One day the world will look upon research upon animals as it now looks upon research on human beings.

Leonardo da Vinci

Animal, One Day, Looks

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Martin Luther King taught us all nonviolence. I was told to extend nonviolence to the mother and her calf.

Dick Gregory

Mother, Kings, Taught Us

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All red meat contains saturated fat. There is no such thing as truly lean meat. Trimming away the edge ring of fat around a steak really does not lower the fat content significantly. People who have red meat (trimmed or untrimmed) as a regular feature of their diets suffer in far greater numbers from heart attacks and strokes.

Michael Klaper

Heart, Vegetarianism, Numbers

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Awareness is bad for the meat business. Conscience is bad for the meat business. Sensitivity to life is bad for the meat business. DENIAL, however, the meat business finds indispensable.

John Robbins

Vegetarianism, Meat, Denial

John Robbins (2011). “Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness, and the Future of Life on Earth”, p.92, H J Kramer

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As soon as I realized that I didn't need meat to survive or to be in good health, I began to see how forlorn it all is. If only we had a different mentality about the drama of the cowboy and the range and all the rest of it. It's a very romantic notion, an entrenched part of American culture, but I've seen, for example, pigs waiting to be slaughtered, and their hysteria and panic was something I shall never forget.

Cloris Leachman

Drama, Cowboy, Pigs

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Once people start introducing animal products into their diet, that's when the mischief starts.

T. Colin Campbell

Animal, People, Introducing

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No human being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.

Henry David Thoreau

Life, Learning, Knowledge

Henry David Thoreau, Linda Corrente (1984). “Henry David Thoreau's Walden”, Barrons Educational Series Incorporated

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I'm stopped. I'll never eat another burger.

Oprah Winfrey

Funny Inspirational, Burgers, Vegetarian

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