Best 263 quotes in «vegan quotes» category

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.

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

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

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

Fur used to turn heads, now it turns stomachs.

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

Humans are the only hunters who kill when not hungry.

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

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.

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

I call myself a vegetarian with vegan tendencies.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I've seen a big gain in cardio since I went vegetarian and even gained a little more going vegan.

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

Love the animals. God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Don't trouble it, don't harass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent.

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

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

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

Man prays for mercy, but is unwilling to extend it to others. Why then should man expect mercy from God? It is unfair to expect something that you are not willing to give.

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

Science that fails to embrace all living beings is far more dangerous than any virus!

My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.

It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery.

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

The concept that you are not ingesting rotting flesh sort of sums it up for me.

The more animal products you remove from your diet, the better you feel. The difference between vegetarian and vegan is huge. I feel so much better as a vegan.

The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.

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

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

Those who still eat flesh when they could do otherwise have no claim to be serious moralists.

Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage.

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

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

'Vegetarian' is a slippery word. I don't eat cheese, I don't eat duck - the point is I'm vegan.