A Book of

Vegan and
Vegetarian
Quotes and
Maxims
Complied by Djehuty Ma’at-Ra
A Dherbs.com Publication (2009)
All rights reserved
This book, “A Book of Vegan and Vegetarian Quotes and Maxim” is a
collection of famous quotes and maxims about the vegan diet and lifestyle,
compassion towards animals, healthy living and diet, and spiritual
enlightenment by means of diet and lifestyle.

It is written as ammunition for the vegan, especially the newcomer to the

vegan way of life, against attacks by those who would seek to ridicule,
belittle, and dissuade against the vegan way of life in promotion of the
insalubrious and outdated practice of carnivorism which in our modern times
serves as a great detriment to the planet (Earth’s eco-system), people (human
beings), and animals as many of the quotes and maxims herein speak to.

The quotes are mentally and intellectually stimulating as well as

enlightening and should help to reinforce one’s decision to become a vegan
or one that consumes an exclusively plant-based diet, and/or to help a
prospective vegan or one contemplating a vegan or all plant-based diet to
follow one’s reason and heart and to refrain from consuming the dead flesh
of slaughtered animals which is greatly promoted here in the Matrix.

Many of the quotes and maxims speak to the many reasons for leading and
living a vegan way of life, e.g. spirituality or spiritual reasons, religious
principles and/or reasons, personal ethics and morals, environmental and
ecological reasons, and health reasons; and are offered from some of the
most noble and illuminated minds from our past and our present respectively
– Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw, Plutarch, Plato, Leonardo da Vinci,
Pythagoras, Buddha, Prophet Muhammad, Albert Schweitzer, Roman
Rolland, Elijah Muhammad, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Benjamin Franklin, Mark Twain, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Indira
Gandhi, Thomas Edison, Osho, and Henry David Thoreau to name a few.

Veganism and vegetarianism are not new fads or discoveries but have
existed for thousands of years and have been espoused for thousands of
years.

This work can assist any vegan in support of his or her diet and lifestyle in
establishing a spiritual, moral, ethical, and eco-friendly basis. I trust you will
enjoy reading every page and the more than 300+ quotes and maxims about
one of the top 5 diets a person can indulge in and practice in our modern
time and world that greatly benefits not only man, but also animals and the
planet – our Great Mother.
 Dedication
This literary work is dedicated to all the people who consciously,
intentionally, and wisely have chosen to refrain from eating animal
flesh and excreta for moral reasons, ethical reasons, spiritual
reasons, religious reasons, health reasons, and/or personal reasons.
 1.

"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

2.

"The time will come when men such as I will look upon the
murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men."
Leonardo da Vinci

3.

"To a man whose mind is free there is something even more

intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of
man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil
and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of
animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of
remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought
ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime." Romain Rolland

4.

"If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth --

beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel
yourself to be to other animals -- would you concede them the
rights over you that you assume over other animals?" George
Bernard Shaw

5.

"What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question

is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?"
Jeremy Bentham
6.
"In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human
beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise
they victimize blindly and without a thought."
Isaac Bashevis Singer

7.

"Our task must be to free ourselves . . . by widening our circle of

compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature
and its beauty."
"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of
survival for life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian
diet."
Albert Einstein

8.

"I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the

way of a whole human being." Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S.
President

9.

"You have just dined, and however scrupulously the

slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there
is complicity."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

10.
"As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields."
"What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they
have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the
benefit of many, there will be no limit to their cruelty."
Leo Tolstoy

11.

"I cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect...always when I

have done I feel it would have been better if I had not fished."
Henry David Thoreau

12.

"While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts,

how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?"
"Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories
and are called medical research."
George Bernard Shaw

13.

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by

the way its animals are treated."
To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a
human being."
Mahatma Gandhi

14.
"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all
evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are
still savages."
Thomas Edison

15.

"I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results

that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it
inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity
toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity
without looking further."
Mark Twain

16.

"Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for
survival of life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian
diet." Albert Einstein
17.
"The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret. . . It has come
to believe that compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can
only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living
creatures and does not limit itself to mankind." Albert Schweitzer
18.
"Try not to become a person of success, but try instead to become a
person of value." Albert Einstein
19.
"Veganism acknowledges the intrinsic legitimacy of all life. It
recognizes no hierarchy of acceptable suffering among sentient
creatures. It is no more acceptable to kill creatures with primitive
nervous systems than those with highly developed nervous
systems. The value of life to its possessor is the same, whether it
be the life of the clam, a crayfish, a carp, a cow, a chicken, or
child." Stanley Sapon
20.
"My single greatest challenge is to remain centered and loving in
an overwhelmingly non vegan world. In today's world, cruelty and
exploitation of other beings—human and nonhuman alike—are
accepted, practiced, and profited from by most every institution of
society—from commerce and science to education and
entertainment. Unfortunately, the vast majority of Homo sapiens
are either unaware of the cruelty or accept it as unavoidable and
even normal." Michael Klaper
21.
"Our task must be to free ourselves...by widening our circle of
compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature
and its beauty." Albert Einstein
22.
"To the greatest extent possible, I try to make choices that involve
the least amount of cruelty and environmental damage. I'm
interested in sustainable agriculture, environmental issues, human
rights, and my interconnectedness in the web of life. It is a great
pleasure for me to find products and practices that have a positive
effect on living beings and the environment, rather than a negative
one." Vesanto Melina
23.
"I know that it is a hopeless undertaking to debate about
fundamental value judgments. For instance, if someone approves,
as a goal, the extirpation of the human race from the earth, one
cannot refute such a viewpoint on rational grounds. But if there is
agreement on certain goals and values, one can argue rationally
about the means by which these objectives may be obtained." —
Albert Einstein
24.
"You are what you eat." American proverb

25.

"How can man be possessed of kindness who, to increase his own

flesh,
eats the flesh of other creatures. As those possess no property who
do
not take care of it, so those possess no kindness who feed on flesh.
Like the (murderous) mind of him who carries a weapon (in his
hand),
the mind of him who feasts with pleasure on the body of another
(creature), has no regard for goodness.
Man did not weave the web of life: he is merely a strand in it.
Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. To harm the earth
is to
heap contempt on its creator." Red Indian Chief (1854)

26.

“Man is defective in his thoughts and actions to kill animals for

certain body parts and members to serve as his medicine to remedy
his ills that result from living contrary to the laws of nature.
Instead, man would be wise to refrain from killing animals for his
medicine and instead look to how the animals that serve as his
medicine keep their organs healthy, which they do by clearly living
in harmony with Nature and not against it as man does.” Djehuty
Ma’at-Ra
 27.

"We pray on Sundays that we may have light to guide our footsteps
on
the path we tread; we are sick of war, we don't want to fight, and
yet
we gorge ourselves upon the dead." George Bernard Shaw

28.

"Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the

whole
world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of
humankind."
Albert Einstein

29.

"I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we
should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our
bodily wants." Gandhi

30.

"If man wants freedom why keep birds and animals in cages? Truly
man
is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the
death of others. We are burial places! I have since an early age
abjured
the use of meat." Leonardo-da-Vinci

31.

"Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of

an
act which is contrary to moral feeling: killing. By killing, man
suppresses in himself, unnecessarily, the highest spiritual capacity,
that of sympathy and pity towards living creatures like himself and
by
violating his own feelings becomes cruel." "As long as there are
slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields." Leo Tolstoy

32.

"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" "Flesh eating is unprovoked murder."
Benjamin Franklin

33.

"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
Thoreau

34.

"I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the

way of a whole human being" Abraham Lincoln

35.

Genesis 1:29 "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed
which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in
its fruit; you shall have them for food. And to every beast of the
earth, and to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on
the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every
green plant for food." Moses

36.

"In that day the wolf and the lamb will lie down together, and the
leopard and goats will be at peace. Calves and fat cattle will be
safe among lions, and the little child shall lead them all. The cows
will graze among bears; cubs and calves will lie down together,
and lions will eat grass like the cows. . . Nothing will hurt or
destroy in all my holy mountain, for as the waters fill the sea, so
shall the earth be full of the knowledge of the Lord." Isaiah
11:6-10

37.

"There will never be any peace in the world as long as we eat

animals." Isaac Bashevis Singer

38.

"If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence
is from injury to animals." Albert Einstein

39.

Not having known anything better does not alleviate the suffering
of the animal. Its fundamental desires remain and it is the
frustration of those desires that is a great part of its suffering. There
are so many examples: the dairy cow who is never allowed to raise
her young, the battery hen who can never walk or stretch her
wings, the sow who can never build a nest or root for food in the
forest litter, etc. Eventually we frustrate the animal's most
fundamental desire of all - to live." David Cowles-Hamar

40.

"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 in a
population that is all educated and at about the same level of
physical refinement, it is practically impossible to find anyone who
will hew a dead ox or pig. We never settled the hygienic aspect of
meat-eating at all. This other aspect decided us. I can still
remember as a boy the rejoicings over the closing of the last
slaughterhouse." H.G. Wells

41.

"There is something so very dreadful, so satanic in tormenting

those who have never harmed us, and who cannot defend
themselves, who are utterly in our power, who have weapons
neither of offence nor defense, that none but very hardened persons
can endure the thought of it" Cardinal Newman

42.

"There will come a time...when civilized people will look back in

horror on our generation and the ones that 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 we regard cannibals and cannibalism" Dennis
Weaver (actor)

43.

"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

44.

"When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he

noble." Buddha (563? - 483? B.C.)

45.

"Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God." Cardinal

John Henry Newman
 46.

“Man who eats animal flesh is a delusional frugavore who desires

to be a carnivore. No true carnivore of the wild first removes an
animals’ feathers, scales, fur, or wool, next washes the carcass,
then adds seasoning to the carcass, and lastly lights a fire and cook
the carcass.” Djehuty Ma’at-Ra

47.

"...many vivisectors still claim that what they do helps save human
lives. They are Iying. The truth is that animal experiments kill
people, and animal researchers are responsible for the deaths of
thousands of men, women and children every year." Dr. Vernon
Coleman, Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, UK.

48.

"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 realized that 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."
Linda and Paul McCartney (musicians)

49.

"To be non-violent to human beings and to be a killer or enemy of

poor
animals is Satan's philosophy. In this age there is always enmity
against animals, and therefore the poor creatures are always
anxious.
The reaction of the poor animals is being forced on human society,
and
therefore there is always the strain of cold or hot war between men,
individually, collectively or nationally...
"The earth affords a lavish supply of riches, of innocent foods, and
offers you banquets that involve no bloodshed or slaughter; only
beasts
satisfy their hunger with flesh, and not even all of those, because
horses, cattle, and sheep live on grass. As long as men massacre
animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of
murder and pain cannot reap joy and love."
-Pythagoras

50.

"To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a

human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for
the sake of the human body." Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948)

51.

"Until he extends the circle of compassion to all living things, man

will not himself find peace." Albert Schweitzer

"Out of 135 criminals, including robbers and rapists, 118 admitted

that when they were children they burned, hanged and stabbed
domestic animals." Ogonyok (1979) (Soviet anti-cruelty
magazine)

52.

"I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific

discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no
consequence." Mahatma Gandhi

53.

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

Bernard Shaw

54.

"The human body has no more need for cows’ milk than it does for
dogs’ milk, horses’ milk, or giraffes’ milk." Michael Klaper, MD,
author of Vegan Nutrition: Pure & Simple

55.

"In every respect, vegans appear to enjoy equal or better health in

comparison to both vegetarians and non-vegetarians." T. Colin
Campbell, PhD Professor of Nutrition, Cornell University (letter
dated 3/29/98)

56.

"If you step back and look at the data, the optimum amount of red
meat you eat should be zero."
Walter Willett, M.D., of Brigham and Women's Hospital, director
of a study that found a close correlation between red meat
consumption and colon cancer.

57.

"When we kill the animals to eat them, they end up killing us

because their flesh, which contains cholesterol and saturated fat,
was never intended for human beings." William C. Roberts,
M.D., editor of The American Journal of Cardiology

58.

"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 D. Barnard, M.D., President, Physicians Committee for
Responsible Medicine, Washington, D.C

59.

If a vegetarian eats vegetables, are humanitarians

cannibals? -Unknown

60.

“A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have

children.” David Brenner

61.

”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

62.

”Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the
victims he intends to eat until he eats them.” Samuel Butler, Note-
Books, 1912

63.

“Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for
the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a
lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual
affection... nuzzling its young with almost human-like compassion.
Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects
to its family.” Berke Breathed, Bloom County Babylon
 64.

“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a

vegetarian.” Paul McCartney

65.

“Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it

in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and
nothing happens but decay.” George Bernard Shaw

66.

“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.” Henry David
Thoreau

67.

“How can you eat anything with eyes? Will Kellogg

68.

“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

69.

“Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant? I'm halfway

through my fish-burger and I realize, Oh my God! I could be
eating a slow learner.” Lynda

70.

“We don't need to eat anyone who would run, swim, or fly away if
he could.” James Cromwell

71.

“If you knew how meat was made, you'd probably lose your
lunch.” K.D. Lang

72.

“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

73.

“My situation is a solemn one. Life is offered to me on condition

of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will
contains directions for my funeral, which will be followed not by
mourning coaches, but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a
small traveling aquarium of live fish, all wearing white scarfs in
honor of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow
creatures.” George Bernard Shaw

74.

“I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health
of the chickens.” Isaac Bashevis Singer, quoted in You Said a
Mouthful edited by Ronald D. Fuchs

75.

“Vegetarianism is harmless enough though it is apt to fill a man

with wind and self-righteousness.” Robert Hutchison, address to
the British Medical Association, 1930

76.

“Heart attacks... God's revenge for eating his little animal friends.”
Author Unknown

77.
“Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead
animals into the mouth.” Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

78.

“If you're not vegan, you're not vegetarian.” V.L. Allineare

79.

“For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We

prefer to eat our vegetarian friends.” Robert Brault,
www.robertbrault.com

80.

“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, quoted in Joanne
Stepaniak, The Vegan Sourcebook, 1998

81.

“Nothing spoils lunch any quicker than a rogue meatball

rampaging through your spaghetti.” Jim Davis, "Garfield"
(Please note: In its original context, this is NOT about
vegetarianism)

82.

“Vegetarians taste better.” Author Unknown

83.

“Man, naturally, should be a vegetarian, because the whole body is

made for vegetarian food.” Osho

84.

“Do vegetarians eat animal crackers?” Author Unknown

85.

“Vegetarian: A person who eats only side dishes.” Gerald

Lieberman

86.

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

87.

“Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-
laden corpse of a tortured animal.” Ingrid Newkirk
 88.

“I will not eat anything that walks, runs, skips, hops or crawls.
God knows that I've crawled on occasion, and I'm glad that no one
ate me.” Alex Poulos

89.

“We all love animals. Why do we call some "pets" and others
"dinner?" K.D. Lang

90.

“Coexistence... what the farmer does with the turkey - until

Thanksgiving.” Mike Connolly

91.

“I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a
network executive or a politician.” Marty Feldman

92.

“I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian

because I hate plants. A. Whitney Brown
 93.

“A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutriment from

cows. George Bernard Shaw

94.

“As humans we do not have to eat meat (flesh of dead animals) in

order to acquire protein anymore than we have to eat hair in order
to grow hair or to eat fingernails in order to grow fingernails.” –
Djehuty Ma’at-Ra

95.

“A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.” George

Bernard Shaw

96.

“If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat?”

Author Unknown

97.

“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

98.
“There is no substitute for mother's milk.” Martin H. Fischer

99.

“I've found without question that the best way to lead others to a
more plant-based diet is by example - to lead with your fork, not
your mouth.” Bernie Wilke, quoted in Joanne Stepaniak, The
Vegan Sourcebook, 1998

100.

“Truly 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

101.

“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, as surely
as the savage tribes have left off eating each other....” Henry
David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

102.

“I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the

necessity of discharging the duties of a butcher would be so
inexpressibly painful and revolting, that if they could obtain a flesh
diet on no other condition, they would relinquish it forever.”
W.E.H. Lecky

103.

“While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how

can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?” George
Bernard Shaw

104.

“I just could not stand the idea of eating meat - I really do think
that it has made me calmer.... People's general awareness is getting
much better, even down to buying a pint of milk: the fact that the
calves are actually killed so that the milk doesn't go to them but to
us cannot really be right, and if you have seen a cow in a state of
extreme distress because it cannot understand why its calf isn't by,
it can make you think a lot.” Kate Bush

105.

“I think if you want to eat more meat you should kill it yourself
and eat it raw so that you are not blinded by the hypocrisy of
having it processed for you.” Margi Clark

106.
"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

107.

“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

108.

“We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the

cruel and sinful thing that we do. Cruelty... is a fundamental sin,
and admits of no arguments or nice distinctions. If only we do not
allow our heart to grow callous, it protests against cruelty, is
always clearly heard; and yet we go on perpetrating cruelties
easily, merrily, all of us - in fact, anyone who does not join in is
dubbed a crank.” Rabindranath Tagore

109.
“Can you really ask what reason Pythagoras had for abstaining
from flesh? For my part I rather wonder both by what accident and
in what state of soul or mind the first man did so, touched his
mouth to gore and brought his lips to the flesh of a dead creature,
he who set forth tables of dead, stale bodies and 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?” Plutarch

110.

“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, Queen Mab Notes

111.

“Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining

from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt
toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for
squeamishness.” Bill Griffith, Griffith Observatory comic strip,
1977

112.
“To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a
human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for
the sake of the human body.” Mahatma Gandhi

113.

“A veteran USDA meat inspector from Texas describes what he

has seen: "Cattle dragged and choked... knocking 'em four, five,
ten times. Every now and then when they're stunned they come
back to life, and they're up there agonizing. They're supposed to be
re-stunned but sometimes they aren't and they'll go through the
skinning process alive. I've worked in four large [slaughterhouses]
and a bunch of small ones. They're all the same. If people were to
see this, they'd probably feel really bad about it. But in a packing
house everybody gets so used to it that it doesn't mean anything."
~Slaughterhouse 1997

114.

“I eat everything that nature voluntarily gives: fruits, vegetables,

and the products of plants. But I ask you to spare me what animals
are forced to surrender: meat, milk, and cheese.” ~Author
Unknown (Thanks, Eric)

115.

“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
 116.

“Your food should never have a face and a tail.” Djehuty Ma’at-
Ra

117.

“I do not like eating meat because I have seen lambs and pigs
killed. I saw and felt their pain. They felt the approaching death.
I could not bear it. I cried like a child. I ran up a hill and could not
breathe. I felt that I was choking. I felt the death of the lamb.”
Vaslav Nijinsky

118.

“Would you kill your pet dog or cat to eat it? How about an animal
you're not emotionally attached to? Is the thought of slaughtering
a cow or chicken or pig with your own hands too much to handle?
Instead, would hiring a hit-man to do the job give you enough
distance from the emotional discomfort? What animal did you put
a contract out on for your supper last night? Did you at least make
sure that none went to waste and to take a moment to be grateful
for its sacrifice?” ~Anonymous

119.

“Why do people worry about vegetarianism being unhealthy more

than we do about eating pizza daily and sitting washed out in front
of the television?” Richard Gere

120.
“Most farmed animals are crammed into filthy sheds and
slaughtered on killing floors that are contaminated with feces,
vomit, and other bodily fluids. These unsanitary conditions have
led to a rise in food borne bacteria.” Heather Moore

121.

“The report reviews scientific findings on trans-fats and finds that

eating any at all raises levels of low-density lipoprotein - the so-
called bad cholesterol. Therefore, if a limit were to be set, it should
be zero. Rimm said the panel, made up of nutritionists,
biochemists, pediatricians and others, decided not to do that. "We
can´t tell people to stop eating all meat and all dairy products," he
said. "Well, we could tell people to become vegetarians," he added.
"If we were truly basing this only on science, we would, but it is a
bit extreme. It's interesting to think that our No. 1 use of energy
consumption, even more than transportation, is cooking our food,"
he said. "The No. 1 thing we put in our landfills is food packaging.
So if you're eating raw food, such as bananas on a bunch, you've
eliminated both of those. And the kicker: "Our demand for meat,
dairy, and processed carbohydrates drives us to consume way more
calories than are good for us; and those calories are in foods that
cause, not prevent, disease. The evidence is very clear that plants
promote health." Kaylee Tejeda

122.

"For the foreseeable future, the U.S. will continue to need lots of
oil in order to maintain our standard of living.

That is not true. We need lots of oil in order to maintain our

particular standard of living.

If we changed two things -- eliminated suburban development that

requires automobiles and stopped eating animal products, the
production of which is extreme in its inefficiency -- our standard of
living would be just as high (in fact, it would increase along with
our quality of life) but we would need only a fraction of the oil we
now need.

And all that needs to happen for both of those things to occur is for
the government to stop subsidizing them both." Nick Kyriazi,
Deutschtown. Thursday, May 24, 2007 In the "Saturday Essay" by
Gery Steighner ("What about oil shale?" May 19 and PghTrib.com)

123.

“Growing crops to feed farm animals requires massive amounts of

water and land. Nearly half of the water and 80 percent of the
agricultural land in the United States is used to raise animals for
food, according to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.”

124.
“How can you say you're trying to spiritually evolve, without even
a thought about what happens to the animals whose lives are
sacrificed in the name of gluttony?" Oprah Winfrey

125.

“We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the

cruel and sinful thing that we do. Cruelty... is a fundamental sin,
and admits of no arguments or nice distinctions. If only we do not
allow our heart to grow callous, it protests against cruelty, is
always clearly heard; and yet we go on perpetrating cruelties
easily, merrily, all of us - in fact, anyone who does not join in is
dubbed a crank.” Rabindranath Tagore

126.

“A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutriment from

cows.” George Bernard Shaw
 127.

“Even scientists concede to the fact that the whole structure of the
human body shows that man should not be a non-vegetarian.”
Osho

128.

"When about 16 Years of Age, I happen'd to meet with a Book

written by one Tryon, recommending a Vegetable Diet. I
determined to go into it.... My refusing to eat Flesh occasioned an
inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity...." –
Ben Franklin, Chapter 1 "The Autobiography" E302.6F7A2

129.

"Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric

story." Mary Tyler Moore (actress)

130.

“I'm a vegetarian - I think there's a strong possibility, had I not

become a vegetarian, I would not be working now. I became a
vegetarian about 25 years ago, and I did it out of concern for
animals. But I immediately began having more energy and feeling
better.” Bob Barker

131.

"I have always felt that the way we treat animals is a pretty good
indicator of the compassion we are capable of for the human race."
Ali McGraw (actress)

132.

"I grew up in cattle country -- that's why I became a vegetarian.

Meat stinks, for the animals, the environment, and your health."
K.D. Lang (musician)

133.

“Food grows from the ground. It is not born of parents.” Djehuty

Ma’at-Ra

134.

“During my medical education at the University of Basel I found

vivisection horrible, barbarous, and above all unnecessary." Carl
G. Jung (psychologist)

135.

"How can you eat anything with eyes?" Will Kellogg

136.

“Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories

and are called medical research." George Bernard Shaw
(playwright, Nobel 1925)

137.

"To a man whose mind is free there is something even more

intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of
man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil
and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of
animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of
remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought
ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime." Romain Rolland,
author, Nobel Prize 1915

138.
"If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth --
beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel
yourself to be to other animals -- would you concede them the
rights over you that you assume over other animals?" George
Bernard Shaw

139.

"It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living by its purely

physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially
influence the lot of mankind." - Albert Einstein Letter to
'Vegetarian Watch-Tower', 27 December 1930

140.

"Can you really ask what reason Pythagoras had for abstaining
from flesh? For my part I rather wonder both by what accident and
in what state of soul or mind the first man did so, touched his
mouth to gore and brought his lips to the flesh of a dead creature,
he who set forth tables of dead, stale bodies and 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?" Plutarch (essayist and biographer)

141.

"It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of

creatures, as to make up the state of our treats." William Penn
(Quaker colonizer of America)

142.
"What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they
have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the
benefit of many, there will be no limit to their cruelty." Leo
Tolstoy

143.

"While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how

can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?" George
Bernard Shaw

144.

"Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories

and are called medical research." George Bernard Shaw

145.

"There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of

vegetable diet, and pure water has not infallibly mitigated,
wherever the experiment has been fairly tried."
Percy Bysshe Shelley (English poet) (1792-1822)

146.

“I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty

conscience.”
Albert Einstein

147.

“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.”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy, Russian author (1828-1910)

148.

“I've been a vegetarian for years and years. I'm not judgemental
about others who aren't, I just feel I cannot eat or wear living
creatures.”
Drew Barrymore, American actress

149.

“Persons living entirely on vegetables are seldom of a plump and

succulent habit.”
William Cullen (1710-1790), Scottish physician & professor.

150.

“Your food should not have parents.” Djehuty Ma’at-Ra

151.

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

152.

“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

153.

“To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to

nirvana.”
Buddha

154.

“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

155.

“Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them, the

higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.” John Denver

156.

“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.

157.

“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 Gandhi

158.

“How can you derive life or life force from eating that which is
dead? Life renders life and death renders death.” Djehuty Ma’at-
Ra

159.

“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.

160.

“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

161.

“To consider yourself an environmentalist and still eat meat is like

saying you're a philanthropist who doesn't give to charity.”
Howard Lyman

162.
“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

163.

"Men dig their graves with their own teeth and die by those fated
instruments more than the weapons of their enemies. "
Thomas Moffett

164.

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

165.

“If you really feel you must eat meat, eat your own ass and leave
the animals alone!’ Djehuty Ma’at-Ra

166.

“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

167.

“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

168.

“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

169.

“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 Silverstone

170.

“Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the

pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and
sincere.” Leo Tolstoy

171.

"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."
Alice Walker

172.

“When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability

to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy." --
Ingrid Newkirk
173.
"If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of
compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance."
Richard Wagner

174.

"Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but to
stop there is not enough."
St. Francis of Assisi

175.

"It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing
whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak."
The Bible, Romans 14:21
176.

"In the next ten years, one of the things you're bound to hear is that
animal protein is one of the most toxic nutrients of all that can be
considered. Quite simply, the more you substitute plant foods for
animal foods, the healthier you are likely to be. I now consider
veganism to be the ideal diet. A vegan diet - particularly one that is
low in fat - will substantially reduce disease risks. Plus, we've seen
no disadvantages from veganism." - T. Colin Campbell, PhD,
nutritional biochemist,
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY and Project Director
on Nutrition, Health and Environment, 1983-1990
177.

"Other things being equal, I judge that a strict vegetarian will live
ten years longer than a habitual meat eater, while suffering on the
average, less than half so much from sickness." Horace Greeley
(1811-1872), American newspaper
editor and founder of the New York Herald Tribune
178.
There is no question that the combination of a vegan low-fat diet
and daily vigorous exercise are keys to radiant good health. It is
my vegan diet that powers me through triathlons and marathons
and 50-60 races per year!" Ruth Heidrich, PhD, Ironman triathlete
179.
"People are the only animals that drink the milk of another species.
All other animals stop drinking milk altogether after weaning. It is
unnatural for a dog to nurse from a giraffe; a child drinking the
milk of a mother cow is just as strange. It is not surprising that
problems ensue from this inherently unnatural act." Michael A.
Klaper, M.D., American author and lecturer,
Pregnancy, Children and the Vegan Diet;
Vegan Nutrition: Pure and Simple
180.
"The protein of animal muscle (steak, chicken, meat, fish fillets,
etc.) is far more concentrated and acidic than the plant protein
found in whole grains, legumes, and green vegetables. This
concentrated, acidic protein load can leach calcium from the bones,
contributing to osteoporosis." Michael A. Klaper, M.D., American
author and lecturer,
Pregnancy, Children and the Vegan Diet
Vegan Nutrition: Pure and Simple
181.
"Compassion is the foundation of everything positive, everything
good. If you carry the power of compassion to the market place
and the dinner table, you can make your life really count." Rue
McClanahan,
American Actress
182.
"In the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, there was a recent
series of letters and commentaries saying that people should
probably get their omega-3 fats from vegetables and not from fish,
because the omega-3 fish oils do seem to have a variety of negative
effects, one of which is that they promote the production of free
radicals. Free radicals can damage tissues and lead to cancer."
Milton R. Mills, M.D., Physicians Committee
for Responsible Medicine
183.
"Lobsters are fascinating. They have a long childhood and an
awkward adolescence. They use complicated signals to explore and
establish social relationships with others. Their communications
are direct and sophisticated. They flirt. Their pregnancies last nine
months. Some are right-handed, some left-handed. They've even
been seen walking hand-in-hand. Some can live to be more than
150 years old, though few (1%) survive the world's most
devastating predator - the species with the who lobsters share so
many traits - the human being." Ingrid Newkirk, National
Director of People for the
Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), excerpted
from Save the Animals: 101 Easy Things You Can Do
184.
"Diabetes is not necessarily a one-way street. Early studies suggest
that persons with diabetes can improve and, in some cases, even
cure themselves of the disease by switching to an unrefined, vegan
diet." Andrew Nicholson, M.D., Physicians Committee
for Responsible Medicine Good Medicine
Magazine, Winter 1997
185.
"The average age (longevity) of a meat-eater is 63. I am on the
verge of 85 and still at work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long
enough and am trying to die, but I simply cannot do it. A single
beefsteak would finish me, but I cannot bring myself to swallow it.
I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only
disadvantage of vegetarianism." George Bernard Shaw
(1856-1950)
Author and playwright
186.
"There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of a
vegetable diet and pure water has not infallibly mitigated,
wherever the experiment has been fairly tried." Percy Bysshe
Shelley (1792-1822), English poet
187.
"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
(1904-1991)
Laureate of Literature
Nobel Prize Recipient
188.
"When I was 88 years old, I gave up meat entirely and switched to
a plant-foods diet following a slight stroke. During the following
months, I not only lost 50 pounds but also gained strength in my
legs and picked up stamina. Now, at 93, I'm on the same plant-
based diet, and I still don't eat any meat or dairy products. I either
swim, walk or paddle a canoe daily and I feel the best I've felt
since my heart problems began." Dr. Benjamin Spock, M.D.
(1903-1998), the Famous
"Dr. Spock", pediatrician and author, excerpted from
Nutritional Advocate, 1996
189.
“Fruits and vegetables are best for us (to eat).” Elijah
Muhammad
190.
"1.5 million deaths per year in the U.S. are from diseases
associated with diets high in saturated fats and cholesterol. The
major dietary sources of fat in the American diet are meat, poultry,
fish, dairy products and fats and oils. Dietary cholesterol is found
only in foods of animal origin. Reduce consumption of saturated
fat and cholesterol. Increase consumption of whole grain foods and
cereal products, vegetables and fruits." - Surgeon General's
Report on Nutrition and Health, 1988
191.
"If a man earnestly seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence
is from animal food." Leo Tolstoy
192.
"As long as there are slaughter houses, there will be battle fields." -
Leo Tolstoy
193.
"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were
not made for humans any more than blacks were made for whites,
or women for men." Alice Walker, American author, The Color
Purple
194.
"There's no reason to drink cow's milk at any time in your life. It
was designed for calves, not humans, and we should all stop
drinking it today." Dr. Frank Osaki, former Director of
Pediatrics,
Johns Hopkins University
195.
"The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies,
they are the trees and the plants and the seeds." Plato (circa
428-347 B. C.),
Greek philosopher
196.
"What's healthiest for each of us personally is also healthiest for
the life support system of our precious, but wounded planet. A
reduction in meat consumption is the most potent single act you
can take to halt the destruction of our environment and preserve
our natural resources." Jeremy Rifkin, President of the Foundation
on
Economic Trends, and author, Beyond Beef: The
Rise and fall of the Cattle Culture, Dutton, New York
197.
"It takes less water to produce a year's food for a pure vegetarian
than to produce a month's food for a meat-eater." John Robbins,
Diet for a New America
198.
"Meat, which contains cholesterol and saturated fat, was never
intended for human beings, who are natural herbivores." William
C. Roberts, M.D. and Editor in Chief,
American Journal of Cardiology, vol. 66,
October 1, 1990
199.
"I am conscious that meat eating is not in accordance with the finer
feelings, and I abstain from it whenever I can." Albert Schweitzer
200.
SIR ANDREW:
"I am a great eater of beef and I believe that does harm to my wit."
SIR TOBY:
"No question." William Shakespeare,
Twelfth Night, Act I, Scene III
201.
"A raw and living food diet is leaded with enzymes, crammed with
vitamins and minerals, abundant in oxygen, complete with
available proteins, and is especially high in fiber." Brian R.
Clement, Hippocrates Health Program:
A Proven Guide To Healthful Living, Hippocrates Pub
202.
"If human civilization is going to invade the waters of the earth,
then let it be, first of all, to carry a message of respect - respect for
all life." Jacques Cousteau
(1910-1997) Explorer
203.
“[I]t is difficult to picture the great Creator conceiving of a
program of one creature (which He has made) using another living
creature for purposes of experimentation. There must be other, less
cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.”
Adlai Stevenson, American statesman (1835–1914)
204.
“There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher
animals in their mental faculties.… The lower animals, like man,
manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.”
Charles Darwin, naturalist and author (1809–1882)
205.
“The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great
as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind.”
Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man
206.

“The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a

presumption not supported by all the facts.… Why should man
value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of
creation?”
John Muir
207.
“Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things,
man will not himself find peace.”
Albert Schweitzer
208.
“Whenever people say “We mustn’t be sentimental,” you can take
it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add “We must
be realistic,” they mean they are going to make money out of it.”
Brigid Brophy (1929–1995)

209.

“Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine
spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.”
Isaac Bashevis Singer
210.
“As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there
can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter
and justice cannot dwell together.”
Isaac Bashevis Singer
211.
“I don’t hold animals superior or even equal to humans. The whole
case for behaving decently to animals rests on the fact that we are
the superior species. We are the species uniquely capable of
imagination, rationality, and moral choice – and that is precisely
why we are under an obligation to recognize and respect the rights
of animals.”
Brigid Brophy (1929–1995)
212.
“The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of
man.” Charles Darwin
213.
“Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom
the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.”
James A. Froude, English historian (1818–1894)
214.
“If you visit the killing floor of a slaughterhouse, it will brand your
soul for life.”
Howard Lyman, author of Mad Cowboy
215.
“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. And to act so is immoral.” Leo
Tolstoy
216.
“In fact, if one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be
cruelty, but where a lot of people are unkind to animals, especially
in the name of commerce, the cruelty is condoned and, once large
sums of money are at stake, will be defended to the last by
otherwise intelligent people.”
Ruth Harrison, author of Animal Machines
 217.
“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 D. Barnard, MD, President, Physicians Committee for
Responsible Medicine
218.
“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, PhD
219.
“Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you anymore.”
Franz Kafka, while admiring fish in an aquarium
220.
“Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies…
that which to us is merely an evening’s meal, but to them is life
itself.” T. Casey Brennan (1948–)
221.
“Life is life – whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no
difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a
human conception for man’s own advantage.”
Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950)
222.
“Humanity’s true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its
attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this
respect humankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle
so fundamental that all others stem from it.”
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, 1984
223.
“What is it that should trace the insuperable line?… The question
is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?”
Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832)
224.
“Can you really ask what reason Pythagoras had for abstaining
from flesh? For my part I rather wonder both by what accident and
in what state of soul or mind the first man did so, touched his
mouth to gore and brought his lips to the flesh of a dead creature,
he who set forth tables of dead, stale bodies and 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?… It is certainly not lions and wolves that we eat out of
self-defense; on the contrary, we ignore these and slaughter
harmless, tame creatures without stings or teeth to harm us,
creatures that, I swear, Nature appears to have produced for the
sake of their beautyand grace. But nothing abashed us, not the
flower-like tinting of the flesh, not the persuasiveness of the
harmonious voice, not the cleanliness of their habits or the unusual
intelligence that may be found in the poor wretches. No, for the
sake of a little flesh we deprive them of sun, of light, of the
duration of life to which they are entitled by birth and being.”
—Plutarch
 225.
“I abhor vivisection. It should at least be curbed. Better, it should
be abolished. I know of no achievement through vivisection, no
scientific discovery, that could not have been obtained without
such barbarism and cruelty. The whole thing is evil.”
Charles Mayo, founder of the Mayo Clinic
226.
“Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We
live by the death of others. We are burial places.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519)
227.
“As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.
Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap the
joy of love.”
Pythagoras
228.
“When a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport; when a
tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity.”
George Bernard Shaw
229.
“It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely
physical effect on the human temperament, would most
beneficially influence the lot of mankind.”
Albert Einstein
230.
“A human being is a part of the whole, called by us the “Universe,”
a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his
thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest – a kind
of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of
prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection
for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves
from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace
all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is
able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such
achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for
inner security.”
Albert Einstein
231.
“Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.”
—Ben Franklin
232.
“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 then should man expect mercy from God?
It is unfair to expect something that you are not willing to give.
Isaac Bashevis Singer, writer and Nobel laureate (1902–1991)
233.
“A dead cow or sheep lying in the pasture is recognized as carrion.
The same sort of carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher’s stall
passes as food.”
J. H. Kellogg, American physician (1852–1943)
234.
“It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of
God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary
compassion towards our fellow creatures.”
Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948)

235.
“I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time
will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of
animals as they now look upon the murder of men.”
Leonardo da Vinci

236.
“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

237.
The root word for “vegetarian” is NOT vegetable, it is the Latin
“vegetus,” meaning “FULL of LIFE!”
“Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or
poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined
to abstain from animal food.”
Henry David Thoreau
238.
“Nothing will benefit human health, and increase the chances for
survival of life on earth, as much as the evolution to a vegetarian
diet.”
Albert Einstein
239.
“Until he extends the circle of compassion to all living things,
man will not himself find peace.”
Albert Schweitzer
240.
“But for the sake of a 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 to enjoy.”
- Plutarch
241.
“Being vegan helped me realize I can say and do what I believe is
right. That’s powerful.”
Alicia Silverstone
242.
“People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It’s ludicrous.
It’s not as bad as mass animal death in a factory.”
– Richard Gere
243.
“I’ve always felt that animals are the purest spirits in the world.
They don’t fake or hide their feelings, and they are the most loyal
creatures on Earth. And somehow we humans think we’re smarter
—what a joke.”
– Pink

244.
“To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to
nirvana.”
– Buddha
245.
“Humans are the only hunters who kill when not hungry.”
– Steven Spielberg
 246.

“Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them the

higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.”
John Denver

247.

“In the East, all the great meditators – Buddha, Mahavira – they
have emphasized the fact, not because of any concept of
nonviolence, that is a secondary thing, but because if you really
want to move in deep meditation, your body needs to be
weightless, natural flowing. Your body needs to be unloaded; and a
non-vegetarian’s body is very much loaded.” Osho

248.

“You ask people why they have deer heads on the wall. They
always say, ‘Because it’s such a beautiful animal.’ There you go. I
think my mother’s attractive, but I have photographs of her.”
Ellen DeGeneres

249.

“And fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for
medicine.” Ezekiel 47:12

250.

“Be not among the winebibbers; nor among the riotous eaters of
flesh!” Proverbs 23:20
 251.

“Thanks be to God: since I gave up flesh and wine, I have been

delivered from all physical ills.” John Wesley (1703-1791)

252.

“Plant life instead of animal food is the keystone of regeneration.

Jesus used bread instead of flesh and wine in place of blood at the
Lord’s Supper.” Richard Wagner (1813-1883)

253.

“Because he has pity on every living creature, therefore a man is

called ‘holy’” Dhammapada
254.

“Cruelty to animals is as if man did not love God.” Cardinal John

H. Newman

255.

“Therewith He causes crops to grow for you, and the olive and the
date-palm and grapes and kinds of fruit. Lo! Herein is indeed a
portent for people who reflect.” Koran, surah 16, verse 11

256.

“For the sake of love of purity, the bodhisattva (“enlightened

soul”) should refrain from eating flesh, which is born from semen,
blood, etc. For fear of causing terror to living beings let the
bodhisattva, who is disciplining himself to attain compassion,
refrain from eating flesh … It is not true that meat is proper food
and permissible when the animal was not killed by himself, when
he did not order others to kill it, when it was specifically meant for
him … Again, there may be some people in the future who …
being under the influence of the taste for meat will string together
in various ways many sophisticated arguments to defend meat-
eating … But … meat-eating in any form, in any manner, and in
any place is unconditionally and once and for all prohibited …
Meat-eating I have not permitted to anyone, I do not permit, I will
not permit.” Buddha

257.

“… We bring forth from it grain – so that they will eat thereof. And
we have placed therein gardens of the date-palm and grapes, and
We have caused springs of water to gush forth therein. That they
may eat of fruit thereof, and their hands created it not. Will they
not, then, give thanks.” Koran, surah 36, verses 33-35

258.

“A cruel and wretched person who maintains his existence at the

cost of others’ lives deserves to be killed for his own eternal well-
being, otherwise he will go down by his own actions.” – Shrimad
Bhagavatam 1.7.37
259.

“Everything is related. Whatever happens now to animals will

eventually happen to man.” Indira Gandhi

260.

“As long as human society continues to allow cows to be regularly

killed in slaughterhouses, there cannot be any question of peace
and prosperity.” A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

261.

“Oh my fellow men, do not defile your bodies with sinful foods …
The earth affords a lavish supply of riches, of innocent foods, and
offers you banquets that involve no bloodshed or slaughter.”
Pythagoras, from Metamorphoses by Ovid

262.

“Educate the children in their infancy in such a way that they

become exceedingly kind and merciful to the animals.” Abdul-
Baha; Baha’i World Faith

263.

“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.” The Dalai Lama

264.

“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.” J.H. Kellogg
265.

“Worshippers of Kali were obliged to chant the Sanskrit word for

meat (mamsa) into the goat’s ear before slitting its throat. The
word carries deep meaning. Etymologically, mamsa is broken
down into mam (“me”) and sa (“he”). According to traditional
Indian philology, the implication is as follows: “As I eat him now,
so will he eat me in the future.” This is an example of the law of
karma: for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.”
Steven Rosen

266.

“One who partakes of human flesh, the flesh of a horse or of

another animal, and deprives others of milk by slaughtering cows,
O King, if such a fiend does not desist by other means, then you
should not hesitate to cut off his head.” Rig Veda, 10.87.16

267.

“You must not use your God-given body for killing God’s
creatures, whether they are human, animal or whatever.” Yajur
Veda, 12.32

268.

“One should be considered dear, even by the animal kingdom.”

Atharva Veda 17.1.4

269.

“Those noble souls who practice meditation and other yogic ways,
who are ever careful about all beings, who protect all animals, are
the ones who are actually serious about spiritual practices.”
Atharva Veda, 19.48.5
270.

“By not killing any living being, one becomes fit for salvation.”
Manusmirti, 6.60

271.

“The purchaser of flesh himsa [violence] by his wealth; he who

eats flesh does so by enjoying its taste; the killer does himsa by
actually tying and killing the animal. Thus, there are three forms of
killing. He who brings flesh or sends for it, he who cuts off the
limbs of an animal, and he who purchases, sells, or cooks flesh and
eats it – all of these are to be considered meat-eaters.”
Mahabharata, Anu. 115:40

272.
“He who desires to augment his own flesh by eating the flesh of
other creatures lives in misery in whatever species he may take his
birth.” Mahabharata, Anu. 115:47

273.

“Those who are ignorant of real dharma and, though wicked and
haughty, account themselves virtuous, kill animals without any
feeling or remorse or fear of punishment. Further, in their next
lives, such sinful persons will be eaten by the same creatures they
have killed in this world. Bhagavatam 11.5.14

273.

“Creatures without feet have my love. And likewise those who

have two feet; and those, too, who have many feet. Let creatures
all, all things that live, all beings of whatever kind, see nothing that
will bode them ill. May naught of evil come to them.” Buddha
274.

“Having well considered the origin of flesh-foods, and the cruelty

of fettering and slaying corporeal beings, let man abstain from
eating animal flesh.” Manusmriti 5.49

275.

“While the eating of meat – especially fish – is now commonplace

in Japan, the deeply religious still consider meat-eating a lower
activity, and meat-eaters are still sometimes known as outcasts.”
Steven Rosen

276.

“According to the Encyclopedia of Buddhism, “In China and Japan

the eating of meat was looked upon as an evil and was ostracized
… the eating of meat gradually ceased [c. fifth century] and this
tended to become general. It became a matter of course not to use
any kind of meat in the meals of temples and monasteries. In fact,
monks who are even fish were disparagingly referred to as
namagusubozu – “an unholy monk smelling of raw fish.” Steven
Rosen

278.

“Just because our ancestors may have eaten meat doesn’t make the
act a correct one. Longevity or the passing of time cannot make an
immoral and unethical act moral and ethical.” Djehuty Ma’at-Ra

279.

“The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of great compassion.”

Mahaparinirvana Sutra

280.

“Ahimsa (“Noninjury to sentient beings”) is the highest duty.”

Padma Purana 1.31.27

281.

“Eating the meat of cows cause disease (marz)” Al-Ghazzali

(1058-1111)

282.

“Compassionate eating leads to compassionate living.” Al-

Ghazzali (1058-1111)

283.
“Let man reflect on the food he eats: how we poured out the rain
abundantly, and split the earth into fissures, and how we then made
the grains to grow, and vines and reeds, olives and palms and
gardens and fruits and pastures – an enjoyment for you and your
cattle to delight in.” Koran 16:65

284.

“Take care not to destroy God’s work for the sake of something to
eat.” Romans 14:20

285.

“Why justify eating meat for purposes of protein when everything

on earth has protein, including fruits, vegetables, seeds, nuts, and
grains? You can’t live on earth without protein, so it makes no
sense whatsoever to kill animals for something that is so readily
provided for and available.” Djehuty Ma’at-Ra

286.

“It’s not about acquiring protein, but acquiring ‘complete protein’,

which consists of 22 complete amino acids. Because no one body
part of an animal or human being contains all 22 amino acids,
when you’re eating a chicken wing, leg or thigh; or a ham-hock, or
pig intestines (chitterlings), you’re not eating ‘complete protein’,
you’re eating cooked animal flesh. Nothing more, nothing less.”
Djehuty Ma’at-Ra

287.

“For that which befalleth the sons of men, befalleth beasts, even
one thing befalleth them; As the one dieth, so doeth the other. Yes,
they have all one breath. So that a man hath no pre-eminence
above a beast – for all is vanity.” Ecclesiastes 3:19
 288.

“Protein obtained from nuts, pulses, grains, and even dairy

products is said to be relatively pure compared with beef – which
has a fifty-six percent impure water content. Such impurity affects
not only the heart, but the whole human organism.” Steven Rosen
(quoting Encyclopedia Britannica)

289.

“Vegetarian diets are much better than diets including even modest
amounts of animal products.” Neal Barnard, M.D.

290.

“Meat-centered diets are linked to many types of cancer, most

notably cancer of the colon, breast, cervix, uterus, ovary, prostate,
and lung.” John Robbins

291.

“Just watch what happens when you eat meat: when you kill an
animal what happens to the animal when he is killed” of course,
nobody wants to be killed. Life wants to prolong itself; the animal
is not dying willingly. If somebody kills you, you will not die
willingly. If a lion jumps on you and kills you, what will happen to
your mind? The same happens when you kill a lion. Agony, far,
death, anguish, anxiety, anger, violence, sadness – all these things
happen to the animal. All over his body violence, anguish, agony
spreads. The whole body becomes full of toxins, poisons. All the
body glands release poisons because the animal is dying very
unwillingly. And then you eat the meat – that meat carries all the
poisons that the animal has released. The whole energy is
poisonous, then those poisons are carried in your body.” Osho

292.
“How could God make our bodies which according to meat-eaters,
allegedly need nutrients that are only found in animals (flesh), but
science and biology proves to us that our bodies were not designed
to eat animals (flesh)? How could we need something from a
source we were not meant to eat?” Djehuty Ma’at-Ra

293.

“There is health argument, which points out meat is full of fat and
bacteria, and if non-organic then full also of growth hormones,
antibiotics and vaccines. And strongest of all there is a moral
argument, against killing sentient creatures for our pleasure, when
we do not need to do so to live wisely and well.” A.C. Grayling

294.

“And that meat which you are eating belonged to an animal body.
It had a specific purpose there. A specific type of consciousness
existed in the animal’s body. You are on a higher plane than the
animal’s consciousness, and when you eat the animal’s meat your
body goes to the lowest plane, to the lower plane of the animal.
Then there exists a gap between your consciousness and your
body, and a tension arises.” Osho

295.

“If I am to consume fish oil for purposes of vitamin D, I should be

able to catch a live fish and be able to eat it raw and whole and
without first having to remove its scales, cut its flesh open, and
press the liver for its oil.” Djehuty Ma’at-Ra

296.
“People who ate the most animal-based foods got the most chronic
disease … People who ate the most plant-based foods were the
healthiest and tended to avoid chronic disease.” Dr. T. Colin
Campbell

297.

“We do not eat ‘fresh’ meat, we eat carrion, for the former would
be stiff with rigor mortis, and meat only becomes soft enough to
cook and eat once it has begun to rot. We like our game especially
rotten, which is why we leave it hanging for days so that the
microbes swarming in it can do their work. Microbes are the meat-
eater’s friend; without them there could be no tender steak, no
juicy roast, no tasty chop or rib.” A.C. Grayling

298.

“One should eat things which are natural – natural for you. Fruits,
nuts, vegetables – eat as much as you can. And the beauty is that
you cannot eat these things more than is needed.” Osho

299.

“The science is clearly conclusive: the best diet for humans is the
vegan diet. Vegan diet stops and reverses most diseases,
rejuvenates, slims the body and stops the needless slaughter of
animals and ravaging effects of animal farming.” T. Colin
Campbell

300.

“The animals meat-eaters eat get their nutrients directly from

plants so how come meat-eaters just don’t get their nutrients
directly from plants? Meat-eaters are not eating meat for purposes
of nutrition but simply because they are lazy, gluttonous, and like
the taste of meat.” Djehuty Ma’at-Ra
 301.

“Ancient man of thousands of years ago did not eat meat for
purposes of deriving protein or vitamins and this is easily proven
because ‘protein’ and ‘vitamins’ were first discovered in the early
1800s. Ancient man clearly ate meat for sustenance and not
nutrition.” Djehuty Ma’at-Ra

302.

“By four million years ago the African rain forest had receded to
reveal vast areas of savannah grassland. Various hominids … had
now left the rainforest to exist in this new habitat. Lucy’s skeleton
is very similar to ours, except for her skull, which resembles that of
a modern chimpanzee, with a strong jaw and thick enamel teeth.
The microscopic wear pattern on these teeth indicates that she ate
mostly fruit … her remains were found in Ethiopia and are dated
3.2 million years ago.” Colin Spencer, researcher

303.

“Consider the following statistics: 1,000 acres of soybeans yield

1,124 pounds of usable protein. 1,000 acres of rice yield 938
pounds of usable protein. 1,000 acres of wheat yield 1,042 pounds
of usuable protein. Now consider this: 1,000 acres of non-GMO
soybeans, corn, rice or wheat , when fed to a steer, will yield only
about 125 pounds of usable protein. These and other findings point
to a disturbing conclusion: meat-eating is directly related to world
hunger. If we fed the same supply of grain and soy supply to the
poor and starving people of the world that we feed to livestock, we
could wipe out world starvation in no time at all.”

304.
“I don’t see how providing historical analysis provides solutions
for today in a world that has changed so much from the days of the
ancients. Is it even intelligent to apply certain ancient techniques
and customs while residing in concrete jungles called cities where
there are no rainforests, water falls, streams of pure water, etc.
What ancient people did is not going to help a people who are cut
off from the ways of the ancients and who have created a new way,
their own way. Ancients ate very little meat and today the average
U.S. meat-eater eats more than 225 pounds of meat per year.”
Djehuty Ma’at-Ra

305.

“Meat in industrialized nations are loaded with preservatives:

Sugar, DDT, Arsenic (used in cattle feed as a growth stimulant),
Sodium Sulfate (used to give meat that “fresh” red color), DES (a
synthetic hormone and known carcinogen), Sodium Nitrate (a
known carcinogen), Phosphates, Bovine Growth Hormone,
Cement, Sodium Bicarbonate, Road-kill, and Antibiotics.”

306.

Tamasic foods are impure, rotten, or dead and produce feelings of

heaviness and lethargy. This category includes all types of meat,
fish, eggs, drugs, alcohol, overcooked foods, packaged foods,
fermented, burned, fried, barbecued, reheated, stale, or those
containing preservatives. Myra Lewin

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