Vegetarian Health Quotes - Page 6

• May all that have life be delivered from suffering.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Animal, Suffering

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• The standard four food groups are based on American agricultural lobbies. Why do we have a milk group? Because we have a National Dairy Council. Why do we have a meat group? Because we have an extremely powerful meat lobby.

  Marion Nestle

  Funny Inspirational, Powerful, Four

  "Feeding Frenzy" by Laura Shapiro, www.newsweek.com. May 26, 1991.

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• In every respect, vegans appear to enjoy equal or better health in comparison to both vegetarians and non-vegetarians.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Vegetarianism, Vegan, Enjoy

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• To give a child animal products is a form of child abuse.

  Neal Barnard

  Children, Animal, Giving

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• I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes. After all, man can live without meat. It is only some carnivorous animals that have to subsist on flesh. Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventures, and for hides and furs is a phenomenon which is at once disgusting and distressing. There is no justification in indulging in such acts of brutality . . . Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to a man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not to die, so do other creatures.

  Dalai Lama

  Sports, Pain, Adventure

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• Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that

  George Bernard Shaw

  Animal, Vegetarian Diet, Vegetarianism

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• I have been a vegetarian for about 10 years. And it really was due to the reading that I did. And they explain so that you understand why it's important for the planet's survival along with compassion for animals. It certainly made it much easier for me. I lost weight really fast. My mother died from cancer so this is all very personal to me. And I just would like the planet to be a better place. And I think you'll find a vegetarian diet to be really incredible these days

  Linda Blair

  Mother, Cancer, Reading

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• The trans fatty acids (found in animal products and cooked oils) are a factor in breast cancer.

  Edward Martin

  Cancer, Animal, Fatty Acids

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• Your choice of diet can influence your long term health prospects more than any other action you might take.

  C. Everett Koop

  Vegetarianism, Long, Choices

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• Basically we should stop doing those things that are destructive to the environment, other creatures, and ourselves and figure out new ways of existing.

  Moby

  Vegetarianism, Way, Vegan

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• A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk's bill, no sharp talon, no roughness of teeth, no such strength of stomach or heat of digestion, as can be sufficient to convert or alter such heavy and fleshy fare.

  Plutarch

  Vegetarianism, Teeth, Body

  Plutarch (1909). “Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, comprising all the works collected under the title of "Morals", translated from the Greek by several hands, corr. and rev. by William W. Goodwin”

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• I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes. After all, man can live without meat.

  Dalai Lama

  Men, Animal, Vegetarian Diet

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• It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Fate, Animal, Vegetarianism

  Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

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• Unless we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is - whether its victim is human or animal - we cannot expect things to be much better in the world.

  Rachel Carson

  Animal, Vegetarianism, World

  "Rachel Carson: Legacy and Challenge", ed. Lisa H. Sideris and Kathleen Dean Moore Albany: State University of New York Press, (p. 102), 2008.

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• Years ago on the set of Gunsmoke I read the book The Holy Science. Since then I have not eaten meat.

  Dennis Weaver

  Book, Years, Meat

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• An important fact to remember is that all natural diets, including purely vegetarian diets without a hint of dairy products, contain amounts of calcium that are above the treshold for meeting your nutritional needs....In fact,calcium deficiency caused by an insufficient amount if calcium in the diet is not known to occur in humans.

  John A. McDougall

  Vegetarian Diet, Important, Needs

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• The really great thing about my shoe store is that there's not one dead animal in it.

  Stella McCartney

  Animal, Shoes, Vegetarian

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• We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?

  George Bernard Shaw

  Vegetarian Diet, Vegetarianism, World

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• If you could see or feel the suffering you wouldn't think twice. Give back life. Don't eat meat.

  Kim Basinger

  Thinking, Vegetarianism, Giving

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• We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

  William Ralph Inge

  Cousin, Animal, Rights

  Outspoken Essays: Second Series "The Idea of Progress" (1922)

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• I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings.

  Cesar Chavez

  Inspiring, Dog, Food

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