Best 263 quotes in «vegan quotes» category

All wars are fought for the acquisition of wealth

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Fur used to turn heads, now it turns stomachs.

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.

Humans are the only hunters who kill when not hungry.

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

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

I call myself a vegetarian with vegan tendencies.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.

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

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

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.

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.

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