Vegetarian Health Quotes - Page 4

• The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.

  Thomas More

  Life, Death, Animal

  Thomas More (2016). “More: Utopia”, p.58, Cambridge University Press

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• If you visit the killing floor of a slaughterhouse, it will brand your soul for life.

  Howard Lyman

  Compassion, Soul, Vegan

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• It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sight, Vegetarian Diet, Vegetarianism

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1839). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.86

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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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• If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food, because ...its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling - killing.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life, Death, Animal

  Leo Tolstoy, J. M. Packham (2015). “Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers”, p.42, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The human body has no more need for cows' milk than it does for dogs' milk, horses' milk, or giraffes' milk.

  Michael Klaper

  Dog, Horse, Health

  "Meatonomics: How the Rigged Economics of Meat and Dairy Make You Consume Too Much–and How to Eat Better, Live Longer, and Spend Smarter". Book by David Robinson Simon, September 2013.

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• We all love animals. Why do we call some 'pets' and others 'dinner?'

  K. D. Lang

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Pet

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• We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Pain, Passion, Animal

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• I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live, I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Vegan Food, Flesh, Stage

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.151, Rajpal & Sons

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• Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Ethics, Vegetarian

  Jim Mason, Peter Singer (1980). “Animal Factories”, Crown

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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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• How can you eat anything with eyes?

  Will Keith Kellogg

  Food, Health, Eye

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

  Leo Tolstoy

  Food, Animal, Meat Consumption

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Fur used to turn heads, now it turns stomachs.

  Rue McClanahan

  Fur, Vegetarian, Vegan

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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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