Best 263 quotes in «vegan quotes» category

Why don't you like the foods I like?" he asks sometimes. "Why don't you like the foods I make?" I answer.

Why is it that the people who seem to have the most to say aren’t doing anything at all?

Without pushing an agenda (okay, maybe I've pushed a bit), I've spread a little veganism wherever I've gone. I've become friends with chefs at the meatiest restaurants you can imagine, and shown them a few things that opened their minds (and their menus) to vegan options. It's easy to be convincing when the food is delicious. It doesn't feel like a sacrifice--it feels like a step up.

Writer Brigid Brophy exposes [their motives] with great precision: "Whenever people say 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add 'We must be realistic,' they mean they are going to make money out of it. These slogans have a long history. After being used to justify slave traders, ruthless industrialists, and contractors who had found that the most economically 'realistic' method of cleaning a chimney was to force a small child to climb it, they have now been passed on, like an heirloom, to the factory farmers. 'We mustn't be sentimental' tries to persuade us that factory farming isn't, in fact, cruel. It implies that the whole problem had been invented by our sloppy imaginations.

YOU ARE NOT A FINISHED WORK OF ART YOU ARE A COMMISSIONED WORK IN PROGRESS HANGING IN A GALLERY UNDER CONSTRUCTION! KEEP PUSHING!

You do not need to change people. Simply pull back the curtain obscuring their view of the truth and let them stare. Common sense, compassion and kindness will take it from there.

You know the world has gone mad when those who have enlightened, compassionate views and future visions, are accused of borderline insanity, ridiculed and criticised for thinking positively.

Your body is a Temple. You are what you eat. Do not eat processed food, junk foods, filth, or disease carrying food, animals, or rodents. Some people say of these foods, 'well, it tastes good'. Most of the foods today that statically cause sickness, cancer, and disease ALL TATSE GOOD; it's well seasoned and prepared poison. THIS IS WHY SO MANY PEOPLE ARE SICK; mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually; because of being hooked to the 'taste' of poison, instead of being hooked on the truth and to real foods that heal and provide you with good health and wellness. Respect and honor your Temple- and it will honor you.

A good deed done to an animal is as meritorious as a good deed done to a human being, while an act of cruelty to an animal is a bad as an act of cruelty to a human being.

Your perception of meat being nice is blurred by the likely fact that you are excluded from participating in, or even witnessing the untimely mortal demise of the animals you gluttonously devour.

All wars are fought for the acquisition of wealth

Anyone who cares about the Earth - really cares - must stop eating animals.

Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics.

As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out.

A reduction in meat consumption is the most powerful single act that you can take to halt the destruction of our environment and preserve our natural resources.

A vegan in a Hummer has a lighter carbon footprint than a beef eater in a Prius.

Everything in food works together to create health or disease. The more we think that a single chemical characterizes a whole food, the more we stray into idiocy.

Being shorter or taller depends on details of the diet. Vegetarians can obtain a balanced diet, with sufficient complete protein, vitamins, minerals and micro-nutrients. It's trickier for vegans but it can be done.

Being around all the animals in the film Dr. .Doolittle made me one too.

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

Being vegan just gives you such great karma.

Every time we go by KFC, my kids ask me to honk and they yell 'Boo' out the window.

I enjoy cooking and baking. Alicia Silverstone's vegan cookbook is awesome.

For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.

Fur used to turn heads, now it turns stomachs.

Human beings have capitalized on the silence of animals, just as certain human beings have historically imposed silence on certain other human beings by denying slaves the right to literacy, denying women the right to own property, and denying both the right to vote.

Humans are a part of nature, not apart from nature.

I call myself a vegetarian with vegan tendencies.

Excessive animal protein is at the core of many chronic diseases.

For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends.

Humans are the only hunters who kill when not hungry.

If your meals consistently revolve around corpse multiple times daily, you might become one sooner than you planned.

If there would come a voice from God saying, 'I'm against vegetarianism!' I would say, 'Well, I am for it!' This is how strongly I feel in this regard.

If youre a vegan who ran a marathon & got your dogs from a shelter, how do you decide which thing to wedge into the conversation first?

I have had vegan Thanksgiving of tofurkey and soy gravy. And it's not to say that Thanksgiving will ever justify the genocide of the Native Americans. But vegan Thanksgiving - that's just spitting on the graves, isn't it?

If you visit the killing floor of a slaughterhouse, it will brand your soul for life.

I'm about 90 percent vegan. I think veganism is really well suited for training, at least for me anyway.

I have to say that being a vegan in 1986 or whenever was a lot different than being a vegan in 2012. You'd go to health foods stores and basically your choice was between Mung beans and nutritional yeast, and that's about it.

It does take a little work to be a vegetarian but it's so worth it, oh it's so worth it!

I'm a level 5 vegan, I don't eat anything that casts a shadow.

In every respect, vegans appear to enjoy equal or better health in comparison to both vegetarians and non-vegetarians.

In my experience of vegan food it tends to be a symphony of beige.

In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought.

I'm really interested in vegan nail polishes, because a lot of nail polishes have a lot of toxins in them.

I'm stopped. I'll never eat another burger.

It almost seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore.

I think there's something odd about eating another living anything.

It is found easier, by the short-sighted victims of disease, to palliate their torments by medicine, than to prevent them by regimen

I thought it was very elegant, a wonderful opening. The vegans seemed so surprised-God knows what they get to eat.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.