Vegetarian Quotes - Page 5

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

Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.

A woman gains status when she refuses to see anything killed to be put on her back. Then she’s truly beautiful.

With my time in the limelight, I regret that I didnt use it more to push vegetarianism. I support vegetarian options in the school lunch program.

All red meat contains saturated fat. There is no such thing as truly lean meat. Trimming away the edge ring of fat around a steak really does not lower the fat content significantly. People who have red meat (trimmed or untrimmed) as a regular feature of their diets suffer in far greater numbers from heart attacks and strokes.

When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.

Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will become a vegetarian.

We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do.

Thousands of people who say they "love" animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been utterly deprived of everything that could make their lives worth living and who endured the awful suffering and the terror of the abattoirs...

There is not a single argument nor a single fact that can be offered in favour of flesh eating that cannot be offered, with equal strength, in favour of cannibalism.

Discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher.

Basically we should stop doing those things that are destructive to the environment, other creatures, and ourselves and figure out new ways of existing.

Be a vegetarian. That was the best advice I ever took. It means I'm not involved in killing, that's the main thing.

My name, as you may have guessed, is Theodore. I come from a strange stock. The members of my family were mostly epileptics, vegetarians, stutterers, triplets, nailbiters. But we've always been happy.

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.

When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

We need another and a wiser and a perhaps more mystical concept of animals.

I believe if the viewing of slaughter was required to eat meat, most folks would become vegetarians.

We are the living graves of murdered beasts.

Man is the only animal that can be bored.

It is not how we breed, keep and kill animals for human consumption that has been the impetus for vegetarianism for thousands of years. It is that we breed, keep and kill animals for human consumption. Throughout the centuries the common thread in the arguments against eating animals is the fact that since we have no nutritional requirement for the flesh or fluids of animals, killing them to simply satisfy our taste-buds or habits or customs amounts to senseless slaughter, and senseless slaughter is no small thing.

I am really good at making Top Ramen. I also love it when my mom makes vegetarian lasagna for me.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.

When I was poor living in a garage in Kansas I began to draw the mice that scampered over my desk. That is how Mickey Mouse was born.