Vegetarian Quotes - Page 7

The American fast food diet and the meat eating habits of the wealthy around the world support a world food system that diverts food resources from the hungry. A diet higher in whole grains and legumes and lower in beef and other meat is not just healthier for ourselves but also contributes to changing the world system that feeds some people and leaves others hungry.

It was almost enough to make me turn vegetarian, except for the pesky fact that I loved cheeseburgers.

I don't do the gym and I don't diet. I'm vegetarian but I don't diet.

I'd be vegetarian if bacon grew on trees

I became a vegetarian after I became aware of factory farming and slaughterhouses and the torture and inhumane handling of all these animals.

Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.

Vegetarianism is the cure for 99% of the world's problems. Think about it.

I would make a poor vegetarian because I adore meat.

The best thing you can do for the planet is be vegan or vegetarian.

I almost fainted. There was no family history. I had been eating a vegetarian diet and I exercised.

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.

Even if we cannot be completely non-voilent, by being vegetarian we are going in the direction of non-voilence

Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.

When travelling, I make a point of eating a proper diet no matter where I am in the world. It is getting much easier to eat a vegetarian or vegan based diet.

My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity.

For me, it's about optimizing health. It's about lifestyle and longevity. Then you think about what vegetarian diets can do for the mass population, in terms of lower consumption of resources. When you look at the numbers, it's pretty staggering.

I don't see why someone should lose their life just so you can have a snack.

I don't like fruit but I'm vegetarian, so eat a lot of veggies.

If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance.

The idea of vegetarianism is of immense value; it is based on great reverence for life.

If we understand and feel that the greatest act of devotion and worship to God is not to harm any of His beings, we are loving God.

Hindus and Westerners alike see in the meat-eating taboos of India a triumph of morals over appetite. This is a dangerous misrepresentation of cultural processes. Hindu vegetarianism was a victory not of spirit over matter but of reproductive over productive forces.

I'm a vegetarian. I don't eat animals, so I won't wear them.

Vegans and vegetarians are commonly baited by nonvegetarians with "what if" scenarios that typically have no relevance to or bearing on most people's real-life situations.

There is, however, a moral basis for the vegetarian diet for which the indeterminate value of an animal's life takes on irrelevance. And that moral basis is a concern for the environment, a value as absolute as the value we all place on human life, since humanity will not survive for long on a poisoned planet. To be an environmentalist who happens to eat meat is like being a philanthropist who doesn't happen to give to charity.