A human can be healthy without killing animals for food.
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.
Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people,' you'd better live real close to a real good hospital.
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying himself with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.
Man is the only animal that can be bored.
Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind.
Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal.
The first man . . . ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived. How could his eyes endure the slaughter when throats were slit and hides flayed and limbs torn from limb? How could his nose endure the stench? How was it that the pollution did not turn away his taste, which made contact with the sores of others and sucked juices and serums from mortal wounds?
Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering of billions of animals that live miserable lives and (quite often) die in horrific ways isn't motivating, what would be? If being the number one contributor to the most serious threat facing the planet (global warming) isn't enough, what is? And if you are tempted to put off these questions of conscience, to say not now, then when?
I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.
Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.
I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
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