"I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants."
--A. Whitney Brown
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To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.
--Buddha |
One is dearest to God who has no enemies among the living beings, who is nonviolent to all creatures.
--Bhagavad Gita |
He that slayeth an ox is as he that killeth a human.
--Isaiah |
We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred trust to us from our heavenly Father. They
are dumb and cannot speak for themselves.
--Harriet Beecher Stowe |
"I'm stopped. I'll never eat another burger".
--Oprah Winfrey |
One day the world will look upon research upon animals as it now looks upon research on human beings.
--Leonardo Da Vinci
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Humans are the only hunters who kill when not hungry.
--Steven Spielberg |
Once I was fishing and caught the hook in the fish's eye. That was the last time I ate a killed creature .
--Janet Barkas, editor of Grove Press |
Oprah has power because Oprah is believable. People do not believe the beef industry. Shouldn't we be more concerned
about the first amendment rather than protecting powerful agribusiness?
--Morton Downey |
The world's environment can no longer handle beef.
--Jeremy Rifkin of Beyond Beef |
Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them. the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.
-- John Denver |
Hunters are to the arms industry what smokers are to the tobacco industry. Smokers get a nicotine rush. Hunters get
an adrenalin rush from killing a living being.
--Jim R |
Cruelty to animals can become violence to humans.
--Ali MacGraw |
40 years ago on the set of Gunsmoke I read the book The Holy Science. Since then I have not eaten meat.
--Dennis Weaver |
Being around all the animals in the film Dr. .Doolittle made me one too.
--Semantha Eggar |
Check out my web site, wtp.org, to see what fast food did to 2 people in England.
--Governor Jerry Brown of California |
Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage.
--Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian Poet |
So you are the people tearing down the Brazilian rainforest and breeding cattle.
--Prince Philip to McDonald's of Canada |
The awful cruelty and terror to which tens of thousands of animals killed for human food are subjected in traveling
long distances by ship and rail and road to the slaughterhouses of the world. God disapproves of all cruelty.. whether to man or beast. The
occupation of slaughtering animals is brutalising to those who are required to do the work.... I believe this matter is well worthy of the
serious consideration of Christian leaders.
--Mrs. Booth and General Bramwell Booth of the Salvation Army |
All creation has the same right to life.
--Sun Bear and Jaya Bear
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Charlie didn't want to give up meat and smoking. Now he's gone.
--Lesley Stahl of CBS |
I would not want to get to know a pig very well if I intended to eat him.
--Pat Leigh |
Why not just put sterilization hormones in the deer food rather than killing them?
--Dan Ryan, Youngstown talk show host |
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 Tolstoy |
The USDA recommendation of 2 servings of meat per day seems like too much.
--Diane Rehm, First Lady of Broadcasting |
He is a heavy eater of beef. Me thinks it doth harm to his wit.
--Shakespeare in "Twelfth Night" |
Whenever we cause suffering or death to any other being, we cause suffering to the Great Life Force.
--Shik Po Chih |
In all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses.
--H.G. Wells (from Utopia) |
I decline to go fox hunting (nor did she want her sons William and Harry to be involved in hunting).
--Diana, Princess of Wales |
Martin Luther King taught us all nonviolence. I was told to extend nonviolence to the mother and her calf.
--Dick Gregory |
I went snorkeling and noticed how gently the fish welcomed us into their world.. as compared to the violence with
which we welcomed them into ours. I became a vegetarian.
--Syndee Brinkman |
GE is the biggest polluter of the Hudson.. years ago they killed all the fish dumping millions of lbs. of pcb's into
our waterways. Now let's make them pay for the cleanup.
--Robert F. Kennedy Jr |
Items containing raw or uncooked egg should be avoided so as not to contact a certain strain of salmonella (It used
to be thought that only broken eggs could transmit salmonella ... now it is known that the mother passes salmonella through the egg.) (There
is more incidence of food poisoning from eggs than from meat, fish, or milk.)
--Jane Snow, food editor of the Beacon Journal |
When I was poor living in a garage in Kansas I began to draw the mice who scampered over my desk. That is how Mickey
and Minnie were born. (Walt would not like animals advertised on his network as hamburgers)
-- Walt Disney |
Mary Lu Henner, herself a vegetarian because of Danny DeVito's example, star of Taxi, asked by Larry King.. "Is that
true... that Danny DeVito won't harm cockroaches on the set of Taxi?" replied "No Larry and he doesn't eat them either".
-- Mary Lu Henner |
May all that have life be delivered from suffering.
-- Buddha |
Please put the ladybug outside without harming her. (to his butler)
--Winston Churchill |
I have no intention of eating a fish from the East River. They're not safe to eat.
--Mayor White of Cleveland |
May those who oppose capital punishment for humans extend that protection to animals as well . May those who oppose
germ and other biological warfare work to end the unconscious biological warfare unwittingly waged on those who eat animal products. Those
who are prolife would logically become vegetarian. Those who are prochoice would not want to impose their wills upon the body of a cow, sheep
or pig.
--Unknown |
Arson and cruelty to animals are 2 of 3 childhood warning signs regarding the potential to be a serial killer. (To
no longer objectify living beings by ceasing hunting and fishing takes one l step further away from the murder of humans.)
--John Douglas, profiler of serial killers for the FBI, upon whom Silence Of The Lambs FBI character was based: |
Since visiting the abatoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat.
--Vincent Van Gogh |
Thousands of animals (now billions) are butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. It cries vengeance upon all
the human race.
--Romain Rolland |
More and more we realize that vegetarian diet is a good idea
--Dr. Edward Martin, head of Dept. of Defense Health |
It is a surprisingly close progression from hunting animals to hunting and torturing people.. catching and lynching
blacks or smoking out Jews during the Holocaust.
--Aviva Cantor writing in MS Magazine |
I do not believe that any of the suffering I have caused to laboratory animals has helped humanity in the slightest.
--Richard Ryder |
We should live in harmony with Earth not conquer it.. or the animals. The other members of the National Football League
say I'm in the minority.. but they are. A majority of the world is vegetarian.
--Former Pittsburgh Steeler and NY Giant football Player Glenn Scolnick |
Some people are still going to want to eat meat.. we do agree though that vegetarianism is a healthier diet.
--David Stroud of the American Meat Institute |
For many years the media have been afraid of the Goliath power of the meat industry. (But David is coming!)
--Pegeen Fitzgerald of WOR TV and Radio in NY |
I spoke often in Congress against the war in Vietnam. and commented on congresspersons hiding from the reality of
war by saying 'many eat the meat but few go to the slaughterhouse'. I said it so often I became a vegetarian.
Rep. Andrew Jacobs.. formerly of Indianapolis |
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) |
Of what use are all your sacrifices to Me? I have had enough of the roasted carcasses of rams and of the fat of fattened
beasts. I take no pleasure in the blood of calves, lambs and goats . When you spread out your hands, I close My eyes to you; despite however
much you pray, I will not listen. Your hands are full of blood! Wash yourselves clean! Put away your misdeeds from before My eyes and stop
doing evil.
--Isaiah 1:11, 1:15-16 |
A righteous man takes care of his beast, but the heart of the wicked is merciless.
--Proverbs 12:10 |
Whatever you do unto the least of my brothers, you do it unto me.
--Matthew 25:40 |
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 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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) |
A Univ. of NC study linked hot dogs to childhood leukemia.
--Fox News Jan 15th Kathy Wolff |
"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 Singer |
He who harms animals has not understood or renounced deeds of sin ... Those whose minds are at peace and who are free
from passions do not desire to live at the expense of others.
--Acharanga Sutra |
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
--Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948) |
If [man] is not to stifle his human feelings, he must practice kindness towards animals, for he who is cruel to animals
becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
--Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) |
This is the sum of duty: do naught to others which if done to thee, would cause thee pain.
--Mahabharata |
Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the distinguishing vices of low and base minds. Wherever it is found, it is a certain
mark of ignorance and meanness; a mark which all the external advantages of wealth, splendour, and nobility, cannot obliterate. It is consistent
neither with learning nor true civility.
--William Jones (1726-1800) |
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) |
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 (1835-1910) |
Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.
--George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
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 |
I have reached zero tolerance for the cruelty against our animal brothers. If we are to nuture our culture, let’s
begin with the animals who have been nothing but our beasts of burden for so long.
--Riki Rockett |
If animal experimentation, animal dissection and any kind of animal exploitation all ended tomorrow, I don’t make
a f-----’ dime!” I am for the animals, I couldn’t care less about your need to eat animals, wear them, shoot them or exploit them. Too bad
if you consider it suffering to let all that self-centered and traditional bullshit stop you from having the will to help the animals..
--Riki Rockett |
The medical argument for animal testing doesn’t stand up. Even if it did, I don’t think we should kill other species.
We think we’re so much better; I’m not sure we are. I tell people, “We’ve beaten into submission every animal on the face of the Earth, so
we are the clear winners of whatever battle is going on between the species. Couldn’t we be generous? I really do think it’s time to get nice.
No need to keep beating up on them. I think we’ve got to show that we’re kind.
--Paul McCartney |
Thier were no Slaughterhouses in the Garden of Eden.
--Unknown |
You're thinking I'm one of those wise-ass California vegetarians who is going to tell you that eating a few strips
of bacon is bad for your health. I'm not. I say its a free country and you should be able to kill yourself at any rate you choose, as long
as your cold dead body is not blocking my driveway.
--Scott Adams(writter of Dilbert) |
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 |
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 |
If you could see or feel the suffering you wouldn't think twice. Give back life. Don't eat meat.
--Kim Basinger |
I haven't bought any leather articles for a very long time. My ideal is to be able to avoid all animal products, in
food as well as clothing.
--Martina Navratilova |
My respect and empathy towards animals includes sea dwellers too--from dolphins to fish to lobsters. So, of course,
I wouldn't dream of eating them.
--Alexandra Paul |
As custodians of the planet it is our responsibility to deal with all species with kindness, love and compassion.
That these animals suffer through human cruelty is beyond understanding. Please help to stop this madness.
--Richard Gere |
Animals are my friends-and I don't eat my friends.
--George Bernard Shaw |
Compassion is the foundation of everything positive, everything good. If you carry the power of compassion to the
marketplace and the dinner table, you can make your life really count.
--Rue McClanahan |
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 |
How can you eat anything with eyes!
--Will Kellogg |
"Prince Charming is very nice and very honest and very confident in who he is and funny and knows how to have a kick-ass
fun time. Is willing to melt away so that nothing else exists in the world except himself and his princess and loves food and cats and every
life form except human beings which is not necessary."
--Alicia Silverstone |
"Animals are God's creatures, not human property, nor utilities, nor resources, nor commodities, but precious beings
in God's sight. ...Christians whose eyes are fixed on the awfulness of crucifixion are in a special position to understand the awfulness of
innocent suffering. The Cross of Christ is God's absolute identification with the weak, the powerless, and the vulnerable, but most of all
with unprotected, undefended, innocent suffering."
--Rev. Andrew Linzey |
"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 |
"Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals’ suffering? Because government is not. why
not? Animals don’t vote.
--Paul Harvey |
"Human beings are the only animals of which I am throughly and cravenly afraid."
--George Bernard Shaw |
"Fur used to turn heads, now it turns stomachs."
--Rue McClanahan |
"Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it. A woman gains status
when she refuses to see anything killed to be put on her back. Then she's truly beautiful. "
--Doris Day |
"Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story. "
--Mary Tyler Moore |
"There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than
he is. "
--Isaac Bashevis Singer |
"The person who kills for fun is announcing that, could he get away with it, he'd kill you for fun. Your...life may
be of no consequence to anyone else but is invaluable to you because it's the only one you've got. Exactly the same is true of each individual
deer, hare, rabbit, fox, fish, pheasant and butterfly. Humans should enjoy their own lives, not taking others'. "
--Brigid Brophy |
"When I was 12, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why
do we call this fun to kill this creature [who] was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning. "
--Marv Levy (football head coach) |
"We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses
daily with screams of pain and fear. "
--Robert Louis Stevenson |
"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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"I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for
several months before I used one as a [heart] donor. When we put him to sleep in his cage in preparation for the operation, he chattered and
cried incessantly. We attached no significance to this, but it must have made a great impression on his companion, for when we removed the
body to the operating room, the other chimp wept bitterly and was inconsolable for days. The incident made a deep impression on me. I vowed
never again to experiment with such sensitive creatures."
--Christian Barnard (surgeon) |
"I despise and abhor the pleas on behalf of that infamous practice, vivisection... I would rather submit to the worst
of deaths, so far as pain goes, than have a single dog or cat tortured to death on the pretense of sparing me a twinge or two. "
--Robert Browning (poet)
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"Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is--whether its victim is human or animal--we cannot expect
things to be much better in this world... We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature. By every act
that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing we set back the progress of humanity."
--Rachel Carson </
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