VEGETARIANISM QUOTES IV

quotations about vegetarianism

Vegetarianism is not only optimally healthy for your body, but your environment and the planet's animals. It allows you to live more harmoniously with the world around you, which improves mental and emotional health accordingly.

WINGS OF SUCCESS

The Advantages of Being a Vegetarian


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

Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!

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When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian is ill (which fortunately very seldom happens), everyone assures him that he is going to die, and that they told him so, and that it serves him right. They implore him to take at least a little gravy, so as to give himself a chance of lasting out the night.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Saturday Review, May 21, 1898

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Man alone consumes and engulfs more flesh than all other animals put together. He is, then, the greatest destroyer, and he is so more by abuse than by necessity. Instead of enjoying with moderation the resources offered him, in place of dispensing them with equity, in place of repairing in proportion as he destroys, of renewing in proportion as he annihilates, the rich man makes all his boast and glory in consuming, all his splendour in destroying, in one day, at his table, more material than would be necessary for the support of several families. He abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work only to satisfy the immoderate appetite and the still more insatiable vanity of this human being who, destroying others by want, destroys himself by excess.

GEORGE BUFFON

L'Histoire Naturelle


Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter-faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn. To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demiglace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.

ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Kitchen Confidential


If we're not supposed to eat animals ... how come they're made out of meat?

ANONYMOUS

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Sooner or later, we'll all be on the menu.

ROD SERLING

"To Serve Man", The Twilight Zone


Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox.

ISAAC LEIB PERETZ

Taanis Gedanken


I'm a postmodern vegetarian -- I eat meat ironically.

BILL BAILEY

Part Troll


Poor little innocent creatures, if you were reasoning beings and could speak, how you would curse us! For we are the cause of your death, and what have you done to deserve it?

SAINT RICHARD OF CHICHESTER

attributed, Lives of the Saints


Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food.

ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Kitchen Confidential


The meat-free lobby has been rebranding quietly for a while. Certainly, all but the most entrenched dinosaurs have forsworn the prejudice that all vegans and vegetarians are a feeble cohort of joyless neurotics, trussed up in hemp. Today, vegetarians especially are a mainstream minority: they've smartened up their menus and their look. Indeed, perhaps you would even consider going out with one.

PHOEBE LOCKHURST

"Vegetarian London: the best new dishes", Evening Standard, April 5, 2017


We were all brainwashed to believe that the only source of protein was meat and cheese.

SUZANNE HAVALA

101 Reasons why I'm a Vegetarian


Sunday dinner isn't sunny
Easter feasts are just bad luck
When you see it from the viewpoint
Of a chicken or a duck.

SHEL SILVERSTEIN

"Point of View", Vegetarian Times, November 1982


I was born into a family of carnivores, and I married into a family of carnivores -- I know through experience that the concept of vegetarianism is difficult to comprehend in meat-and-potatoes country.

MYCHEL MATTHEWS

"Eating veggies in meat-and-potatoes country", Twin Falls Times-News, April 4, 2017


If we each had to butcher our own meat, there would be a great increase in the number of vegetarians.

ERNEST HOWARD CROSBY

Tolstoy and His Message


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

attributed, Humanimal


Those who eat flesh are but eating grains and vegetables at second hand; for the animal receives from these things the nutrition that produces growth. The life that was in the grains and the vegetables passes into the eater. We receive it by eating the flesh of the animal. How much better to get it direct by eating the food that God provided for our use!

ELLEN WHITE

Health and Happiness


I advance no exaggerated or fanciful claim for Vegetarianism. It is not, as some have asserted, a "panacea" for human ills; it is something much more rational -- an essential part of the modern humanitarian movement, which can make no true progress without it. Vegetarianism is the diet of the future, as flesh-food is the diet of the past.

HENRY S. SALT

"The Humanities of Diet", Ethical Vegetarianism

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The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to be eating death. There is a kind of gestalt-shift between the two positions which makes it hard to change, and hard to raise questions on the matter at all without becoming embattled.

MARY MIDGLEY

Animals and Why They Matter