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Did
you know that when you eat a healthier diet, consider
more vegetarian options, and don't waste food, you're
helping end world hunger!
-- Robert
Alan Silverstein
One
of the most powerful ways to make a difference is
to become a vegetarian, which helps save animals,
helps the ecology of the planet and can improve your
health.
-- Robert
Alan Silverstein
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The
beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than
all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and
all automobile accidents combined. If beef is your idea
of "real food for real people" you'd better live real close
to a real good hospital.
-- Neal Barnard, M.D.
If you
could see or feel the suffering you wouldn't think twice.
Give back life. Don't eat meat.
-- Kim Basinger
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The American fast food diet and the meat eating habits
of the wealthy around the world support a world food
system that diverts food resources from the hungry.
A diet higher in whole grains and legumes and lower
in beef and other meat is not just healthier for ourselves
but also contributes to changing the world system
that feeds some people and leaves others hungry.
-- Dr.Walden
Bello
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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
To become
vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.
-- Buddha
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I was so moved by the intelligence,sense of fun and
personalities of the animals I worked with on Babe
that by the end of the film I was a vegetarian.
~ James
Cromwell
If
any kid ever realized what was involved in factory
farming they would never touch meat again.I was so
moved by the intelligence,sense of fun and personalities
of the animals I worked with on Babe that by the end
of the film I was a vegetarian.
~ James
Cromwell
We
don't need to eat anyone who would run, swim, or fly
away if he could.
~ James
Cromwell
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"People
think of animals as if they were vegetables, and that
is not right. We have to change the way people think
about animals. I encourage the Tibetan people and all
people to move toward a vegetarian diet that doesn't
cause suffering."
- The
Dalai Lama |
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Truely
man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds theirs.
We live by the death of others: we are burial places! I
have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the
time will come when men such as I will look on the murder
of animals as they now look on the murder of men.
~Leonardo da Vinci
"I have
from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time
will come when men such as I look upon the murder of animals
as they now look upon the murder of men." -- Leonardo da
Vinci
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Many
things made me become a vegetarian, among them, the
higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.
-- John
Denver |
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Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances
for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution
to a vegetarian diet.
-- Albert
Einstein |
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"You
have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse
is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there
is complicity."
-- Ralph
Waldo Emerson
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About
2,000 pounds of grains must be supplied to livestock in
order to produce enough meat and other livestock products
to support a person for a year, whereas 400 pounds of grain
eaten directly will support a person for a year. Thus, a
given quantity of grain eaten directly will feed 5 times
as many people as it will if it is eaten indirectly by humans
in the form of livestock products....
-- M.E. Ensminger, PH.D.
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My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency,
and I was frequently chided for my singularity, but,
with this lighter repast, I made the greater progress,
for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension.
-- Ben
Franklin |
Flesh
eating is unprovoked murder.
-- Ben
Franklin
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. We err in copying the lower
animal world - if we are superior to it.
-- Mohandas
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Vegetarianism
is harmless enough, though it's apt to give a person wind
and self-righteousness.
~Robert
Hutchinson
A dead
cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion.
The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's
stall passes as food.
-- John Harvey Kellogg, M.D.
When
we eat vegetarian foods, we needn't worry about what kind
of disease our food died from; this makes a joyful meal!
-- John Harvey Kellogg, M.D.
We all
love animals. Why do we call some "pets" and others "dinner?"
~ k.d. lang
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Our
food system takes abundant grain,which people can't
afford,and shrinks it into meat,which better-off people
will pay for.
-- Frances
Moore Lappe |
I understand,
of course, that grain-fed meat is not the cause of the world
hunger problem-and eating some of it doesn't directly take
food out of the mouths of starving people-but it is, to
me, a symbol and a symptom of the basic irrationality of
a food system that's divorced from human needs. Therefore,
using less meat can be an important way to take responsibility.
Making conscious choices about what we eat, based on what
the earth can sustain and what our bodies need, can help
remind us that our whole society must begin to balance sustainable
production with human need.
-- Frances
Moore Lappe
'To
consider yourself an environmentalist and still eat meat
is like saying you're a philanthropist who doesn't give
to charity'
-- Howard Lyman
We
stopped eating meat many years ago. During the course
of a Sunday lunch we happened to look out of the kitchen
window at our young lambs playing happily in the fields.
Glancing down at our plates, we suddenly realised we were
eating the leg of an animal who had until recently been
playing in a field herself. We looked at each other and
said: "Wait a minute, we love these sheep-they're such
gentle creatures. So why are we eating them?" It was the
last time we ever did.
-- Paul
and Linda McCartney
If
slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian.
We feel better about ourselves and better about the animals,
knowing we're not contributing to their pain.
-- Paul
and Linda McCartney
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Intellectually,
human beings and animals may be different, but it's
pretty obvious that animals have a rich emotional
life and that they feel joy and pain. It's easy
to forget the connection between a hamburger and
the cow it came from. But I forced myself to acknowledge
the fact that every time I ate a hamburger, a cow
had ceased to breathe and moo and walk around.
-- Moby
There
are viable (and usually better) alternatives to
the use of animals for food, sport, clothing, &
experimentation. I beg you to discontinue any actions
that might cause or condone animal torture, abuse,
or destruction.
-- Moby
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"Men
dig their graves with their own teeth and die by those
fated instruments more than the weapons of their enemies.
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-- Thomas Moffett
A
human being has been given an intellect to make choices,
and we know there are other food sources that do not require
the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.
-- Mary Tyler Moore
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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
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There's
so many vegetarian foods now that are available at the
market . The same with drive-throughs. Now, a lot of them
serve veggie burgers just like the restaurants are doing.
So, it's really very easy.
-- Kevin Nealon
When
I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw
it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a
weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies
would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard.
-- River Phoniex
But
for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive
a soul of the sun and light and of that proportion of
life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy."
-- Plutarch
"For
as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.
Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot
reap joy and love."
-- Pythagoras
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. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain
cannot reap joy and love."
-- Pythagoras
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"It
seems disingenuous for the intellectual elite of
the first world to dwell on the subject of too many
babies being born in the second- and third-world
nations while virtually ignoring the over-population
of cattle and the realities of a food chain that
robs the poor of sustenance to feed the rich a steady
diet of grain-fed meat."
-- Jeremy
Rifkin
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"While
we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how
can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?"
-- George
Bernard Shaw
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
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
By all
that is sacred in our hope for the human race, I conjure
those who love happiness and truth to give a fair trial
to the vegetable system!
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“Children
who grow up getting nutrition from plant foods rather
than meats have a tremendous health advantage. They
are less likely to develop weight problems, diabetes,
high blood pressure and some forms of cancer”
-- Dr.
Benjamin Spock
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Once
people spend time with farm animals in a loving way
... a pig or cow or a little chicken or a turkey, they
might find they relate with them the same way they relate
with dogs and cats. People don't really think of them
that way because they're on the plate. Why should they
be food when other animals are pets? I would never eat
my doggies.
-- Alicia
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When
a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting
his own hunger for justice. Man prays for mercy, but is
unwilling to extend it to others. Why the should man expect
mercy from God? It is unfair to expect something that you
are not willing to give.
-- Isaac B. Singer
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.
~Robert Louis Stevenson
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I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of
the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave
off eating animals.
-- Henry
David Thoreau
No
humane 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
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Vegetarianism
serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit
of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine
and sincere.
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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
A human
can 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. And to act so is immoral.
-- Leo
Tolstoy
"Thou
shalt not kill" does not apply to murder of one's own kind
only, but to all living beings; and this Commandment was
inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed
from Sinai.
-- Leo
Tolstoy
As long
as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields.
-- Leo
Tolstoy
I think
there's something odd about eating another living anything.
--
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"I know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who is raised
to be eaten, and who never has a chance to be a real
being, is unhealthy. It's like...you're just eating
misery. You're eating a bitter life."
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I
think there will come a time, and this is down the road
a great many years, when civilized people will look
back in horror on our generation and the ones that have
preceded it: the idea that we should eat other living
things running around on four legs, that we should raise
them just for the purpose of killing them! 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
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I became
a vegetarian in 1958 and it was very difficult in those
days to really maintain that because there weren't many
options. But, now, it's a growing trend because the economics
are there. See, there's simply enough people demanding it
that it's profitable to supply vegetarians with those products.
-- Dennis
Weaver
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In
all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There
used to be, but now we cannot stand the thought of
slaughterhouses. And it is impossible to find anyone
who will hew a dead ox or pig.I can still remember
as a boy the rejoicings over the closing of the last
slaughterhouse.
-- H
G Wells - A Modern Utopia
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Wilbur burst into tears. "I dont want to die," he
moaned. "I want to stay alive, right here in my comfortable
manure pile with all my friends. I want to breathe
the beautiful air and lie in the beautiful sun."
~ E.
B. White (Charlotte's Web)
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