Vegetarian Quotes - Page 3

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 gained strength in my legs and picked up stamina. Now, at age 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.

Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it.

Nobody really needs a mink coat... Except the mink.

It's sad. That's a living creature. We don't have the right to take their life away for fashion.

Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.

A vegetarian driving a Hummer emits less carbon than a meat eater on a bicycle.

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

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.

Every time we sit down to eat, we make a choice. Please choose vegetarianism. Do it for animals. Do it for the environment and do it for your health.

The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit.

The steam of meat darkens the light of the spirit...One hardly can have virtue when one enjoys meat meals and feasts.

The really great thing about my shoe store is that there's not one dead animal in it.

If we suffer in the sufferings of others and feel happy in the happiness of others, we are loving God.

The people of the future will say, 'meat-eaters!' in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.

There is something about veganism that is not easy, but the difficulty is not inherent in veganism, but in our culture.

Being vegan helped me realize I can say and do what I believe is right. That's powerful.

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.

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

It is man who has fallen, not the beasts: that is the message even for the irreligious, and to some extent salvation can be measured by his very treatment of them.

Economy forced me to become a vegetarian, but I finally starting liking it.

I became a vegetarian out of compassion for animals and to live as healthy as possible. I realized soon after that I was truly concerned with nonviolent consumption and my own health, a vegan diet was the best decision.

So you are the people tearing down the Brazilian rainforest and breeding cattle.

I have lived temperately, eating little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principal diet.

It is the other way round: food cannot make you spiritual, but if you are spiritual your food habits will change. Eating anything will not make much difference. You can be a vegetarian and cruel to the extreme, and violent; you can be a non-vegetarian and kind and loving. Food will not make much difference. In India there are communities who have lived totally with vegetarian food; many Brahmins have lived totally with vegetarian food. They are non-violent but they are not spiritual.

Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing nonviolence and refusing to participate in the exploitation of the vulnerable