Best 118 quotes in «vegetarian quotes» category

The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but "Can they suffer?

There is convincing evidence that vegetarians have lower rates of coronary heart disease, largely explained by low LDL cholesterol, probable lower rales of hypertension and diabetes mellitus, and lower prevalence of obesity. Overall, their cancer rates appear to be moderately lower than others living in the same communities, and life expectancy appears to be greater.

There is general agreement that red meat consumption increases the risk of colon or colorectal cancer. This was the only food association with cancer that was labeled ‘‘convincing’’ in the recent report from the World Cancer Research Fund, American Institute for Cancer Research (42). The evidence, of course, largely came from studies of meat consumption in nonvegetarians, although data from Adventist vegetarians in California concur (43).

There is no particular merit in being nice to one's fellow man... We can never establish with certainty what part of our relations with others is a result of our emotions - love apathy, charity of malice - and what part is predetermines by the constant power play among individuals. True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buries from view), consists of attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental débâcle, a débâcle so fundamental all others stem from it.

We strive for a world where every earthling has the right to live and grow. That's why we don't eat animals.

We know we cannot be kind to animals until we stop exploiting them -- exploiting animals in the name of science, exploiting animals in the name of sport, exploiting animals in the name of fashion, and yes, exploiting animals in the name of food.

The results suggest that consumption of total meat is significantly associated with a 9% to 28% increased risk of stroke.

This is why militarism is a feminist issue, why rape is an environmental issue, why environmental destruction is a peace issue.

Two friends are ordering lunch. One says, 'I'm in the mood for a burger,' and orders it. The other says, 'I'm in the mood for a burger,' but remembers that there are things more important to him than what he is in the mood for at any given moment, and orders something else. Who is the sentimentalist?

Vegetarians and especially vegans have a significantly lower prevalence of obesity than meat eaters. Differences in macronutrient intakes (protein, fat, carbohydrate, dietary fibre, sugars, alcohol) accounted for about half the difference in mean body mass index (BMI) between vegans and meat eaters.

vegetarians and vegans had significantly lower mortality than regular meat eaters for pancreatic cancer and digestive diseases, and fish eaters had significantly lower colorectal cancer mortality than regular meat eaters (Supplemental Table 2). Further adjustment for BMI left these associations largely unchanged.

Wellness Salute!

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

Who are we to say dogs and cats have more rights than cows and pigs. They're all conscious. They feel the same. They hurt the same. God help us understand!

What if there were health food stores on every corner in the hood, instead of liquor stores!?

Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.

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.

I adore shooting photographs. It's like being a hunter. But some hunters are vegetarians - which is my relationship to photography.

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.

But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.

Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.

Having the USDA design your food pyramid is like having Al Capone do your taxes.

A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.

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

I am almost a vegetarian, and I meditate, do yoga and love to hike.

If you've got any concern at all about animal welfare, you've got to not eat meat.

I can’t be sure, of course, but I’d compare it to living on tofu and soy milk; we call ourselves vegetarians, our little inside joke. - Edward Cullen

I decline to go fox hunting.

If we each had to butcher our own meat, there would be a great increase in the number of vegetarians.

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.

I decided to pick the diet that I thought would maximize my chances of long-term survival.

I don't like slugs and tentacles and calamari or anything. Actually, tentacles made me turn into a vegetarian in high school. I'm not anymore, but in high school, we were dissecting squid.

If a kid ever realized what was involved in factory farming, they would never touch meat again.

If man is able to live healthily as a vegetarian but chooses not to be one, then man is guilty of eating meat!

If you're a progressive, if you're driving a Prius, or you're shopping green or you're looking for organic, you should probably be a semi-vegetarian.

I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.

I grew up in Texas, eating meat five times a day, and I liked meat. But I began being a vegetarian when I was 19 because I found that I felt better.

I had a good few years where I was a little wild and off the leash. I don't really partake in drugs any more. I occasionally have a little dabble, very occasionally. I have no specific health routine. I'm vegetarian, my wife's nearly 20 years younger than me, good luck, good genes, sunshine.

I'm a vegetarian. You're a what? I don't eat meat. How can you not eat meat? I just don't. He says he does not eat meat. What? No meat? No meat. Steak? No... Chickens! No... And what about the sausage? No, no sausage, no meat! He says he does not eat any meat. Not even sausage? I know! What is wrong with him? What is wrong with you? Nothing, I just don't eat meat!

I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.

I'm a vegetarian, I'm not strict. I eat fish. And duck, but they're nearly fish aren't they.

In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.

I'm into yoga, I meditate all the time, I'm vegetarian.

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

I turned vegetarian after 9/11. A friend of mine came back from New York and said that he couldn't stand the smell of burnt flesh. It immediately reminded me of a barbecue.

Managing wildlife? It's wild! It don't need managing, leave it alone.

I vowed never again to experiment with such sensitive creatures.

I was raised really, really healthy, pretty much vegetarian and a very clean lifestyle, I don't smoke, I don't drink. I'm more addicted to the things that make me feel good - endorphins after working out.

I would expect an extremely high percentage of the chickens would test positive. Our poultry industry clients wouldn't like that.

I've been vegan for about 10 and a half years. It's been all good. I'm obviously much healthier