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"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)
"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
"Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our
nature. If the whole
world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind."
-Albert Einstein
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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:
"I am in favor of animal rights as well as human
rights. That is the way of a whole human being" -Abraham Lincoln
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." -God
"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
"There will never be any peace in the world as long as we eat animals."
-Isaac Bashevis Singer
"If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is
from injury to animals."
-Albert Einstein
"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.
"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
"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
"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)
"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, Diet for a New America
"When a man has pity on all living creatures then only
is he noble." -Buddha (563? - 483? B.C.)
"Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God."
-Cardinal John Henry Newman
"...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.
"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)
"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
"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)
"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)
"I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries
stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends."
-George Bernard Shaw
"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
"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)
"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.
"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
"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
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, are
humanitarians
cannibals? -Unknown
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