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"Isn't man an amazing animal? He kills wildlife - birds, kangaroos, deer, all kinds of cats, coyotes, beavers,
groundhogs, mice, foxes and dingoes - by the million in order to protect his domestic animals and their feed.
Then he kills domestic animals by the billion and eats them. This in turn kills man by the millions, because
eating all those animals leads to degenerative - and fatal - health conditions like heart disease, kidney disease,
and cancer. So then man tortures and kills millions more animals to look for cures for these diseases. Elsewhere,
millions of other human beings are being killed by hunger and malnutrition because food they could eat is being
used to fatten domestic animals. Meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who
kills so easily and so violently, and once a year, sends out cards praying for Peace on Earth."
-- David Coats, Old MacDonald's Factory Farm
|
|
"Right now, I'm pro-leave beef alone. Big shout-out
to all the vegetarians who don't want beef!" (Us
Weekly)
--Ja
Rule
|
"I love to cook. Very healthy
eating. ..." Twain also forgoes meat, dairy, and
eggs. "Nothing," she declares,
"that had to die." Tv Guide
--Shania Twain |
|
"I’m 23 now,
and I’ve grown into this woman. I feel
sexy and more mature. I wanted these inside
changes to be reflected in both my
look and music. I am a vegan now, and it was a
conscious decision. I studied a
lot about African culture and health and the
best way to take care of the body.
I really wanted to be healthy. At first I was
just trying to challenge myself; I
thought it was a phase and that I would grow out
of it, but it wasn’t. I found
out a lot about the body and what [hormones]
they put in meat. My taste buds
started changing, and I didn’t crave [meat and
dairy products] anymore."
--Brandy
|
Vegetarianism is a way of living
consciously on the planet."
--Amy Smart |
"People get
offended by animal rights campaigns.
It’s ludicrous. It’s not as bad as mass animal
death in a factory."
--Richard Gere
|
"In some roles I have to wear fur,
and I always make sure it’s fake, like in Austin
Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me.
Faux fur is great because it shows people that
faux can look fabulous."
--Kristen Johnston |
"[Y]ou need
to hunt something that can shoot back at
you to really classify yourself as a hunter. You
need to understand the feeling
of what it’s like to go into the field and know
your opposition can take you
out. Not just go out there and shoot Bambi."
--Gov. Jesse
Ventura
|
"I’ve always felt that animals are
the purest spirits in the world. They don’t fake
or hide their feelings, and
they are the most loyal creatures on Earth. And
somehow we humans think we’re
smarter—what a joke."
--Pink |
"I am not a
vegetarian because I love animals; I am
a vegetarian because I hate plants."
--A. Whitney
Brown
|
To become vegetarian is to step into
the stream which leads to nirvana.
--Buddha |
One is
dearest to God who has no enemies among the
living beings, who is nonviolent to all
creatures.
--Bhagavad Gita
|
He that slayeth an ox is as he that
killeth a human.
--Isaiah |
We should
remember in our dealings with animals that
they are a sacred trust to us from our heavenly
Father. They are dumb and cannot
speak for themselves.
--Harriet Beecher Stowe |
"I'm stopped. I'll never eat another
burger".
--Oprah Winfrey |
One day the
world will look upon research upon
animals as it now looks upon research on human
beings.
--Leonardo Da
Vinci
|
Humans are the only hunters who kill
when not hungry.
--Steven Spielberg |
Once I was
fishing and caught the hook in the fish's
eye. That was the last time I ate a killed
creature .
--Janet Barkas,
editor of Grove Press |
Oprah has power because Oprah is
believable. People do not believe the beef
industry. Shouldn't we be more
concerned about the first amendment rather than
protecting powerful
agribusiness?
--Morton Downey |
The world's
environment can no longer handle
beef.
--Jeremy Rifkin of Beyond Beef |
Many things made me become a
vegetarian, among them. the higher food yield as
a solution to world
hunger.
-- John Denver |
Hunters are
to the arms industry what smokers are to
the tobacco industry. Smokers get a nicotine
rush. Hunters get an adrenalin rush
from killing a living being.
--Jim R |
Cruelty to animals can become
violence to humans.
--Ali MacGraw |
40 years ago
on the set of Gunsmoke I read the book
The Holy Science. Since then I have not eaten
meat.
--Dennis Weaver
|
Being around all the animals in the
film Dr. .Doolittle made me one too.
--Semantha Eggar
|
Check out my
web site, wtp.org, to see what fast
food did to 2 people in England.
--Governor Jerry Brown of California
|
Those who are used to a cage will
weep for a cage.
--Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian Poet |
So you are
the people tearing down the Brazilian
rainforest and breeding cattle.
--Prince Philip to McDonald's of
Canada |
The awful cruelty and terror to
which tens of thousands of animals killed for
human food are subjected in
traveling long distances by ship and rail and
road to the slaughterhouses of the
world. God disapproves of all cruelty.. whether
to man or beast. The occupation
of slaughtering animals is brutalising to those
who are required to do the
work.... I believe this matter is well worthy of
the serious consideration of
Christian leaders.
--Mrs. Booth and General Bramwell Booth of the
Salvation Army |
All creation
has the same right to life.
--Sun Bear and Jaya Bear
|
Charlie didn't want to give up meat
and smoking. Now he's gone.
--Lesley Stahl of CBS |
I would not want
to get to know a pig very well if I
intended to eat him.
--Pat Leigh |
Why not just put sterilization
hormones in the deer food rather than killing
them?
--Dan Ryan,
Youngstown talk show host |
A human can be
healthy without killing animals for
food. Therefore if he eats meat he participates
in taking animal life merely for
the sake of his appetite.
--Leo Tolstoy |
The USDA recommendation of 2
servings of meat per day seems like too much.
--Diane Rehm, First Lady of
Broadcasting |
He is a heavy
eater of beef. Me thinks it doth harm
to his wit.
--Shakespeare in "Twelfth Night" |
Whenever we cause suffering or death
to any other being, we cause suffering to the
Great Life Force.
--Shik Po
Chih |
In all the round
world there is no meat. There used
to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of
slaughterhouses.
--H.G.
Wells (from Utopia) |
I decline to go fox hunting (nor did
she want her sons William and Harry to be
involved in hunting).
--Diana,
Princess of Wales |
Martin Luther
King taught us all nonviolence. I was
told to extend nonviolence to the mother and her
calf.
--Dick Gregory
|
I went snorkeling and noticed how
gently the fish welcomed us into their world..
as compared to the violence with
which we welcomed them into ours. I became a
vegetarian.
--Syndee
Brinkman |
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.
--Robert F. Kennedy Jr
|
Items containing raw or uncooked egg
should be avoided so as not to contact a certain
strain of salmonella (It used
to be thought that only broken eggs could
transmit salmonella ... now it is
known that the mother passes salmonella through
the egg.) (There is more
incidence of food poisoning from eggs than from
meat, fish, or milk.)
--Jane Snow, food editor of the Beacon
Journal |
Mary Lu Henner, star of Taxi, asked
by Larry King.. "Is that true... that Danny
DeVito won't harm cockroaches on the
set of Taxi?" replied "No Larry and he doesn't
eat them either".
-- Mary
Lu Henner |
May all that
have life be delivered from
suffering.
-- Buddha |
Please put the ladybug outside
without harming her. (to his butler)
--Winston Churchill
|
I have no
intention of eating a fish from the East
River. They're not safe to eat.
--Mayor White of Cleveland
|
May those who oppose capital
punishment for humans extend that protection to
animals as well . May those who
oppose germ and other biological warfare work to
end the unconscious biological
warfare unwittingly waged on those who eat
animal products. Those who are
prolife would logically become vegetarian. Those
who are prochoice would not
want to impose their wills upon the body of a
cow, sheep or pig.
--Unknown |
Arson and
cruelty to animals are 2 of 3 childhood
warning signs regarding the potential to be a
serial killer. (To no longer
objectify living beings by ceasing hunting and
fishing takes one l step further
away from the murder of humans.)
--John Douglas, profiler of serial
killers for the FBI, upon whom Silence Of The
Lambs FBI character was based:
|
Since visiting the abatoirs of S.
France I have stopped eating meat.
--Vincent Van Gogh
|
Thousands of
animals (now billions) are butchered
every day without a shadow of remorse. It cries
vengeance upon all the human
race.
--Romain Rolland |
More and more we realize that
vegetarian diet is a good idea
--Dr. Edward Martin, head of Dept. of
Defense Health |
It is a
surprisingly close progression from hunting
animals to hunting and torturing people..
catching and lynching blacks or
smoking out Jews during the Holocaust.
--Aviva Cantor writing in MS
Magazine |
I do not believe that any of the
suffering I have caused to laboratory animals
has helped humanity in the
slightest.
--Richard Ryder |
We should live
in harmony with Earth not conquer
it.. or the animals. The other members of the
National Football League say I'm
in the minority.. but they are. A majority of
the world is vegetarian.
--Former Pittsburgh Steeler and NY Giant
football Player Glenn
Scolnick |
Some people are still going to want
to eat meat.. we do agree though that
vegetarianism is a healthier diet.
--David Stroud of the American Meat Institute
|
For many years
the media have been afraid of the
Goliath power of the meat industry. (But David
is coming!)
--Pegeen
Fitzgerald of WOR TV and Radio in NY |
I spoke often in Congress against
the war in Vietnam. and commented on
congresspersons hiding from the reality of
war by saying 'many eat the meat but few go to
the slaughterhouse'. I said it so
often I became a vegetarian.
Rep. Andrew Jacobs.. formerly of
Indianapolis |
In all the round
world of Utopia there is no meat.
There used to be, But now we cannot stand the
thought of slaughterhouses. And it
is impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead
ox or pig.I can still remember
as a boy the rejoicings over the closing of the
last slaughterhouse.
-- H
G Wells (A Modern Utopia) |
Of what use are all your sacrifices
to Me? I have had enough of the roasted
carcasses of rams and of the fat of
fattened beasts. I take no pleasure in the blood
of calves, lambs and goats .
When you spread out your hands, I close My eyes
to you; despite however much you
pray, I will not listen. Your hands are full of
blood! Wash yourselves clean!
Put away your misdeeds from before My eyes and
stop doing evil.
--Isaiah 1:11, 1:15-16 |
A righteous man
takes care of his beast, but the
heart of the wicked is merciless.
--Proverbs 12:10
|
Whatever you do unto the least of my
brothers, you do it unto me.
--Matthew 25:40 |
Can you really
ask what reason Pythagoras had for
abstaining from flesh? For my part I rather
wonder both by what accident and in
what state of soul or mind the first man did so,
touched his mouth to gore and
brought his lips to the flesh of a dead
creature, he who set forth tables of
dead, stale bodies and ventured to call food and
nourishment the parts that had
a little before bellowed and cried, moved and
lived. How could his eyes endure
the slaughter when throats were slit and hides
flayed and limbs torn from limb?
How could his nose endure the stench? How was it
that the pollution did not turn
away his taste, which made contact with the
sores of others and sucked juices
and serums from mortal wounds? … It is certainly
not lions and wolves that we
eat out of self-defense; on the contrary, we
ignore these and slaughter
harmless,tame creatures without stings or teeth
to harm us, creatures that, I
swear, Nature appears to have produced for the
sake of their beautyand grace.
But nothing abashed us, not the flower-like like
tinting of the flesh, not the
persuasiveness of the harmonious voice, not the
cleanliness of their habits or
the unusual intelligence that may be found in
the poor wretches. No, for the
sake of a little flesh we deprive them of sun,
of light, of the duration of life
to which they are entitled by birth and being…
--Plutarch
|
Nothing will benefit human health
and increase chances for survival of life on
Earth as much as the evolution to a
vegetarian diet.
--Albert Einstein |
I have no doubt
that it is a part of the destiny of
the human race, in its gradual improvement, to
leave off eating
animals.
--Henry David Thoreau |
The beef industry has contributed to
more American deaths than all the wars of this
century, all natural disasters,
and all automobile accidents combined. If beef
is your idea of ‘real food for
real people,’ you'd better live real close to a
real good
hospital.
--Neal D. Barnard, M.D., President
Physicians Committee for
Responsible Medicine |
I abhor
vivisection. It should at least be curbed.
Better, it should be abolished. I know of no
achievement through vivisection, no
scientific discovery, that could not have been
obtained without such barbarism
and cruelty. The whole thing is evil.
--Charles Mayo (founder of the
Mayo Clinic) |
A Univ. of NC study linked hot dogs
to childhood leukemia.
--Fox News Jan 15th Kathy Wolff
|
"People often
say that humans have always eaten
animals, as if this is a justification for
continuing the practice. According to
this logic, we should not try to prevent people
from murdering other people,
since this has also been done since the earliest
of times. "
--Isaac
Singer |
He who harms animals has not
understood or renounced deeds of sin ... Those
whose minds are at peace and who
are free from passions do not desire to live at
the expense of others.
--Acharanga Sutra |
The greatness of
a nation and its moral progress can
be judged by the way its animals are treated.
--Mohandas Gandhi
(1869-1948) |
If [man] is not to stifle his human
feelings, he must practice kindness towards
animals, for he who is cruel to
animals becomes hard also in his dealings with
men. We can judge the heart of a
man by his treatment of animals.
--Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
|
This is the sum
of duty: do naught to others which
if done to thee, would cause thee pain.
--Mahabharata
|
Cruelty to dumb animals is one of
the distinguishing vices of low and base minds.
Wherever it is found, it is a
certain mark of ignorance and meanness; a mark
which all the external advantages
of wealth, splendour, and nobility, cannot
obliterate. It is consistent neither
with learning nor true civility.
--William Jones (1726-1800)
|
What is it that
should trace the insuperable line?
...The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can
they talk? but, Can they
suffer?
--Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) |
I am not interested to know whether
vivisection produces results that are profitable
to the human race or
doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon
unconsenting animals is the basis of
my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient
justification of the enmity
without looking further.
--Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
Atrocities are
not less atrocities when they occur
in laboratories and are called medical research.
--George Bernard Shaw
(1856-1950) |
If any kid ever realized what was
involved in factory farming they would never
touch meat again.I was so moved by
the intelligence,sense of fun and personalities
of the animals I worked with on
Babe that by the end of the film I was a
vegetarian.
--James Cromwell
|
I have reached
zero tolerance for the cruelty
against our animal brothers. If we are to nuture
our culture, let’s begin with
the animals who have been nothing but our beasts
of burden for so long.
--Riki Rockett |
If animal experimentation, animal
dissection and any kind of animal exploitation
all ended tomorrow, I don’t make
a f-----’ dime!” I am for the animals, I
couldn’t care less about your need to
eat animals, wear them, shoot them or exploit
them. Too bad if you consider it
suffering to let all that self-centered and
traditional bullshit stop you from
having the will to help the animals..
--Riki Rockett
|
The medical
argument for animal testing doesn’t
stand up. Even if it did, I don’t think we
should kill other species. We think
we’re so much better; I’m not sure we are. I
tell people, “We’ve beaten into
submission every animal on the face of the
Earth, so we are the clear winners of
whatever battle is going on between the species.
Couldn’t we be generous? I
really do think it’s time to get nice. No need
to keep beating up on them. I
think we’ve got to show that we’re kind.
--Paul McCartney
|
Thier were no Slaughterhouses in the
Garden of Eden.
--Unknown |
You're thinking
I'm one of those wise-ass California
vegetarians who is going to tell you that eating
a few strips of bacon is bad
for your health. I'm not. I say its a free
country and you should be able to
kill yourself at any rate you choose, as long as
your cold dead body is not
blocking my driveway.
--Scott Adams(writter of Dilbert)
|
If slaughterhouses had glass walls,
everyone would be vegetarian. We feel better
about ourselves and better about
the animals, knowing we're not contributing to
their pain.
--Paul and
Linda McCartney |
I grew up in
cattle country-that's why I became a
vegetarian. Meat stinks, for the animals, the
environment, and your health.
--K.D. Lang |
If you could see or feel the
suffering you wouldn't think twice. Give back
life. Don't eat meat.
--Kim
Basinger |
I haven't bought
any leather articles for a very
long time. My ideal is to be able to avoid all
animal products, in food as well
as clothing.
--Martina Navratilova |
My respect and empathy towards
animals includes sea dwellers too--from dolphins
to fish to lobsters. So, of
course, I wouldn't dream of eating them.
--Alexandra Paul
|
As custodians of
the planet it is our responsibility
to deal with all species with kindness, love and
compassion. That these animals
suffer through human cruelty is beyond
understanding. Please help to stop this
madness.
--Richard Gere |
Animals are my friends-and I don't
eat my friends.
--George Bernard Shaw |
Compassion is
the foundation of everything positive,
everything good. If you carry the power of
compassion to the marketplace and the
dinner table, you can make your life really
count.
--Rue McClanahan
|
We stopped eating meat many years
ago. During the course of a Sunday lunch we
happened to look out of the kitchen
window at our young lambs playing happily in the
fields. Glancing down at our
plates, we suddenly realised we were eating the
leg of an animal who had until
recently been playing in a field herself. We
looked at each other and said:
"Wait a minute, we love these sheep-they're such
gentle creatures. So why are we
eating them?" It was the last time we ever did.
--Paul and Linda
McCartney |
How can you eat
anything with eyes!
--Will
Kellogg |
"Prince Charming is very nice and
very honest and very confident in who he is and
funny and knows how to have a
kick-ass fun time. Is willing to melt away so
that nothing else exists in the
world except himself and his princess and loves
food and cats and every life
form except human beings which is not
necessary."
--Alicia
Silverstone |
"Animals are
God's creatures, not human property,
nor utilities, nor resources, nor commodities,
but precious beings in God's
sight. ...Christians whose eyes are fixed on the
awfulness of crucifixion are in
a special position to understand the awfulness
of innocent suffering. The Cross
of Christ is God's absolute identification with
the weak, the powerless, and the
vulnerable, but most of all with unprotected,
undefended, innocent suffering."
--Rev. Andrew Linzey |
"You ask people why they have deer
heads on the wall. They always say, ‘Because
it’s such a beautiful animal.’
There you go. I think my mother’s attractive,
but I have photographs of her."
--Ellen DeGeneres |
"Ever occur to
you why some of us can be this much
concerned with animals’ suffering? Because
government is not. why not? Animals
don’t vote.
--Paul Harvey |
"Human beings are the only animals
of which I am throughly and cravenly afraid."
--George Bernard Shaw
|
"Fur used to
turn heads, now it turns stomachs."
--Rue McClanahan |
"Killing an animal to make a coat is
sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right
to do it. A woman gains status
when she refuses to see anything killed to be
put on her back. Then she's truly
beautiful. "
--Doris Day |
"Behind every
beautiful fur, there is a story. It is
a bloody, barbaric story. "
--Mary Tyler Moore |
"There will be no justice as long as
man will stand with a knife or with a gun and
destroy those who are weaker than
he is. "
--Isaac Bashevis Singer |
"The person who
kills for fun is announcing that,
could he get away with it, he'd kill you for
fun. Your...life may be of no
consequence to anyone else but is invaluable to
you because it's the only one
you've got. Exactly the same is true of each
individual deer, hare, rabbit, fox,
fish, pheasant and butterfly. Humans should
enjoy their own lives, not taking
others'. "
--Brigid Brophy |
"When I was 12, I went hunting with
my father and we shot a bird. He was laying
there and something struck me. Why
do we call this fun to kill this creature [who]
was as happy as I was when I
woke up this morning. "
--Marv Levy (football head coach)
|
"We consume the
carcasses of creatures of like
appetites, passions and organs with our own, and
fill the slaughterhouses daily
with screams of pain and fear. "
--Robert Louis Stevenson
|
"You have just dined, and however
scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed In
the graceful distance of miles,
there is complicity."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
|
"I had bought
two male chimps from a primate colony
in Holland. They lived next to each other in
separate cages for several months
before I used one as a [heart] donor. When we
put him to sleep in his cage in
preparation for the operation, he chattered and
cried incessantly. We attached
no significance to this, but it must have made a
great impression on his
companion, for when we removed the body to the
operating room, the other chimp
wept bitterly and was inconsolable for days. The
incident made a deep impression
on me. I vowed never again to experiment with
such sensitive creatures."
--Christian Barnard (surgeon) |
"I despise and abhor the pleas on
behalf of that infamous practice, vivisection...
I would rather submit to the
worst of deaths, so far as pain goes, than have a
single dog or cat tortured to
death on the pretense of sparing me a twinge or
two. "
--Robert Browning
(poet)
|
"Until we have
the courage to recognize cruelty for
what it is--whether its victim is human or
animal--we cannot expect things to be
much better in this world... We cannot have
peace among men whose hearts delight
in killing any living creature. By every act
that glorifies or even tolerates
such moronic delight in killing we set back the
progress of humanity."
--Rachel Carson |
"The real cure for our environmental
problems is to understand that our job is to
salvage Mother Nature...We are
facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is
the hunters...and to convince
them to leave their guns on the wall is going to
be very difficult. "
--
Jacques Cousteau (oceanographer)
|
"There can be no
justification for causing suffering
to animals simply to serve man's pleasure or
simply to enhance man's lifestyle."
--The Dean of York |
I've always been very bonded to
animals -- more so than most people. (laughs) I
don't think that they can defend
themselves, so we have to help them.
--Jennie Garth
|
Men hunt I think
maybe because they have something
wrong with thier own equipment and they need
something else to shoot.
--Pamela Lee Anderson |
"When I was old enough to realize
all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational
way of using our power, to take a
weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the
way bullies would take control of
younger kids in the schoolyard".
--River Phoniex |
"Animals can’t
really voice their opinion. We feel
as though we can be on of the spokespeople on
their behalf."
--River
Phoniex
|
"I've always felt somewhat out of
place with other kids my own age", said River.
"I was constantly reminded by
people's reaction to our names and our diet that
we seemed weird to them.
--River Phoniex |
"I think there
will come a time, and this is down
the road a great many years, when civilized
people will look back in horror on
our generation and the ones that have preceded
it: the idea that we should eat
other living things running around on four legs,
that we should raise them just
for the purpose of killing them! The people of
the future will say,
'meat-eaters!' in disgust and regard us in the
same way that we regard cannibals
and cannibalism."
--Dennis Weaver
|
"Do we, as humans, having an ability
to reason and to communicate abstract ideas
verbally and in writing, and to form
ethical and moral judgments using the
accumulated knowledge of the ages, have
the right to take the lives of other sentient
organisms, particularly when we
are not forced to do so by hunger or dietary
need, but rather do so for the
somewhat frivolous reason that we like the taste
of meat? In essence, should we
know better?"
--Peter Cheeke |
"Animal
factories are one more sign of the extent to
which our technological capacities have advanced
faster than our ethics."
--Peter Singer
|
"It is the fate of every truth to be
an object of ridicule when it is first
acclaimed. It was once considered foolish
to suppose that black men were really human
beings and ought to be treated as
such. What was once foolish has now become a
recognized truth. Today it is
considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant
respect for every form of life
as being the serious demand of a rational ethic.
But the time is coming when
people will be amazed that the human race
existed so long before it recognized
that thoughtless injury to life is incompatible
with real ethics. Ethics is in
its unqualified form extended responsibility to
everything that has life."
--Albert Schweitzer |
"I don't
understand why asking people to eat a
well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered
drastic, while it is medically
conservative to cut people open and put them on
cholesterol-lowering drugs for
the rest of their lives."
--Dean Ornish, MD
|
"I don't eat chicken anymore. I
won't eat it. I won't allow it in my house."
--Rodney Leonard -U.S.
Poultry inspection |
"Based on my
experience in Los Angeles, my advice to
the public is not to eat meat."
--Gregorio Natavidad-meat inspector
|
"The thinking man must oppose all
cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in
tradition and surrounded by a halo.
When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing
torment and injury into the life
of another, even the lowliest creature; to do so
is to renounce our manhood and
shoulder a guilt which nothing justifies."
--Albert Schweitzer
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If you don't
like my opinions leave.But just
remember, the animals can’t leave the cages that
hold them. They are captive and
suffering. As you cozy into your bed tonight,
try to imagine the pain and the
suffering that they endure day after day and
night after night. Next time you
get some soap in your eyes, try to imagine that
pain for 3 or 4 days at a time.
Next time you have a stomach ache, try to
imagine liquid plumber being poured
down your throat till you puke so much blood
that you bleed to death. Next time
you bump your head, try to imagine being a
monkey and getting a steel plate
smashed into your skull at 50 miles per hour.
Then, only then should you feel
compelled to tell me that I’m wrong about my
opinions. For all these things have
happened in the name of science. They continue
in abundance till this day.
--Ricki Rockett
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"Therefore a person fully absorbed
in the bodily concept of life is surely killing
himself by not making spiritual
progress. Such a person is called pasu-ghna.
Especially excluded from spiritual
life are the animal hunters, who are not
interested in hearing and chanting the
holy name of the Lord. Such hunters are always
unhappy, both in this life and in
the next. It is therefore said that a hunter
should neither die nor live because
for such persons both living and dying are
troublesome.
--A.C.
Bhaktivedanta Swami
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"The closer you
can live to being a vegetarian the
better".
--Gary Player
|
It is only by softening and
disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation,
that it is rendered susceptible
of mastication or digestion; and that the sight
of its bloody juices and raw
horror does not excite intolerable loathing and
disgust.
--Percy Bysshe
Shelley
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I do not regard
flesh-food as necessary for us at
any stage and under any clime in which it is
possible for human beings
ordinarily to live. I hold flesh-food to be
unsuited to our species. We err in
copying the lower animal world - if we are
superior to it.
--Mohandas
Gandhi
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Your choice of diet can influence
your long term health prospects more than any
other action you might take.
--Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop
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Basically we
should stop doing those things that are
destructive to the environment, other creatures,
and ourselves and figure out
new ways of existing.
--Moby
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"You put a baby in a crib with an
apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and
plays with the apple, I'll buy you
a new car."
--Harvey Diamond
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"I said in mine
heart concerning the estate of the
sons of men, that God might manifest them, and
that they might see that they
themselves are beasts. For that which befalleth
the sons of men befalleth
beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the
one dieth, so dieth the other;
yea, they have all one breath; so that a man
hath no preeminence above a beast:
for all is vanity."
--Ecclesiastes
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Gambling, eating meat, wine-bibbing,
adultery, hunting, thieving, debauchery - these
seven things in this world lead
to the hells."
--Sanskrit Shloka
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The Utopians
feel that slaughtering our fellow
creatures gradually destroys the sense of
compassion, which is the finest
sentiment of which our human nature is capable.
--Thomas More
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No humane being, past the
thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder
any creature which holds its
life by the same tenure that he does.
--Henry David Thoreau
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If he be really
and seriously seeking to live a good
life, the first thing from which he will abstain
will always be the use of
animal food, because ...its use is simply
immoral, as it involves the
performance of an act which is contrary to the
moral feeling -- killing.
--Leo Tolstoy
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To a man whose mind is free there is
something even more intolerable in the
sufferings of animals than in the
sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at
least admitted that suffering is
evil and that the man who causes it is a
criminal. But thousands of animals are
uselessly butchered every day without a shadow
of remorse. If any man were to
refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And
that is the unpardonable crime.
--Romain Rolland
|
To my mind, the
life of a lamb is no less precious
than that of a human being. I should be
unwilling to take the life of a lamb for
the sake of the human body.
--Mohandas Gandhi
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Wild animals never kill for sport.
Man is the only one to whom the torture and
death of his fellow creatures is
amusing in itself.
--Froude
|
Blessed are the
merciful, for they shall receive
mercy.
--Matthew 5:7
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I tremble for my species when I
reflect that God is just.
--Thomas Jefferson
|
God gave our
first parents the food He designed that
the race should eat. It was contrary to His plan
to have the life of any
creature taken. There was to be no death in
Eden. The fruit of the trees in the
garden was the food man's wants required.
--Ellen White
|
Animals are becoming more diseased
and it will not be long until animal food will
be discarded by many besides
Seventh-day Adventists. Foods that are healthful
and life sustaining are to be
prepared, so that men and women will not need to
eat meat.
--Ellen
White
|
"The thing that
has been weighing on my mind this
week is that I wanted to go and save all the
little live lobsters in restaurants
and throw them back in the ocean. Imagine me
being arrested for that".
--Drew Barrymore
|
"The average age (longevity) of a
meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and
still work as hard as ever. I have
lived quite long enough and am trying to die;
but I simply cannot do it. A
single beef-steak would finish me; but I cannot
bring myself to swallow it. I am
oppressed with a dread of living forever. That
is the only disadvantage of
vegetarianism."
--George Bernard Shaw
|
"When we kill
animals to eat them they end up
killing us because their flesh...was never
intended for human beings, who are
naturally herbivores."
--William C. Roberts, M.D
|
Most Americans don’t have any idea
how well the Department of Agriculture protects
the grower at the expense of the
consumer. When a chemical is banned from use, a
farmer or livestock operator who
has the chemical in stock has a choice: either
to lose money by disposing of the
product, or to use it and take the risk of
getting caught breaking the law. How
severe is that risk? Well, if you use a banned
product in your cattle feed, you
have to face the prospect that the government is
going to inspect one out of
every 250,000 carcasses. They will test this
carcass not for all banned
substances, but just for a small fraction of
them. And even if they detect some
residue of a banned substance, and even if
they’re able to trace the carcass to
the ranch that produced it, the guilty rancher
is likely at most to receive a
stern letter with a strongly worded warning. I
never met a rancher who suffered
in any way from breaking any regulation meant to
protect the safety of our meat.
The whole procedure is, in short, a charade.
--Howard Lyman
|
Everything
revolves around the fork.
--Howard
Lyman
|
If you look at the course of western
history you'll see that we're slowly granting
basic rights to everyone. A long
time ago only kings had rights. Then rights were
extended to property-owning
white men. Then all men. Then wymyn. then
children. Then the mentally retarded.
Now we're agonizing over the extension of basic
rights to homosexuals and
animals. We need to finally accept that all
sentient creatures are deserving of
basic rights. I define basic rights as this --
the ability to pursue life
without having someone else's will involuntarily
forced upon you. Or, as the
framers of the constitution put it, the ability
to have "life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness". By what criteria can you
justify denying basic rights to
any living thing? Realize that by whatever
criteria you employ someone could
deny basic rights to you if they objected to
your species, sexual preferences,
color, religion, ideology etc. Would you eat
your housecat, or force a mentally
retarded child to ingest oven cleaner? If not,
then why is it ok to eat cows and
test products on sentient animals? I believe
that to knowingly commit actions
that cause or condone suffering is reprehensible
in the extreme.I call upon you
to be compassionate and treat others as you want
to be treated. If you don't
want to be beaten, imprisoned, mutilated, killed
or tortured then you shouldn't
condone such behavior towards anyone, be they
human or not.
--Moby
|
the environment
is worth more than consumer goods
and the g.n.p. freedom of speech is absolute and
inviolate. guns are too
dangerous for private ownership. sustainable
& non-polluting energy sources
make environmental and economic sense. research
performed on animals is, by
definition, scientifically unsound. cruelty is
unacceptable. what you do with
your own body is your choice. one individual
violently imposing his or her will
on another individual is wrong. you can't expect
people to worry about the world
when they can't feed themselves or their
children. the hazards and risks of
nuclear power make it unacceptable as an energy
source. the use of animals for
food is unhealthy, inefficient, & cruel.
people need love & affection.
tobacco use has killed & harmed more people
than all human wars combined.
--Moby
|
There are viable (and usually
better) alternatives to the use of animals for
food, sport, clothing, &
experimentation. I beg you to discontinue any
actions that might cause or
condone animal torture, abuse, or destruction.
--Moby
|
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."
--Prophet Mohammed
|
"Killing animals for sport, for
pleasure, for adventure, and for hides and furs
is a phenomena which is at once
disgusting and distressing. There is no
justification in indulging is such acts
of brutality."
--The XLV Dalai Lama
|
"To be a
vegetarian is to disagree---to disagree
with the course of things today.
Starvation,world hunger,cruelty,waste,wars---we
must make a statement against these
things.Vegetarianism is my statment. And I
think it's a strong one."
--Isaac Bashevis Singer
|
The transition of world agriculture
from food grain to feed grains represents
an...evil whose consequences may be
far greater and longer lasting than any past
examples of violence inflicted by
men against thier fellow human beings.
--Jeremy Rifkin
|
Vegetarians
always ask about getting enough protein.
But I don't know any nutrition expert (who) can
plan a diet of natural foods
resulting in a protein deficiency, so long as
you're not deficient in calories.
You need only 5 or 6 percent of total calories
in protein... and it is
pratically impossible to get below 9 percent in
ordinary diets.
--Nathan
Pritikin
|
Kids nowadays...tend to go overboard
[on] protein --- something I believe to be
totally unnecsssary...[I state in] my
formula for basic good eating: Eat about one
gram of protein for every two
pounds of body weight.
--Arnold Schwarzenegger
|
Excessive animal
protein is at the core of many
chronic diseases.
--Dr.Campbell
|
Yes, sometimes unusual things happen
after a switch to a vegetarian diet. I've seen a
number of cases in which the
poor people broke out in violent attacks of good
health,followed by bouts of
physical exercise and sweet thoughts.
--Anonymous
|
"The person who
is afraid to alter his living
habits,and especially his eating and drinking
habits, because he is afraid that
other persons may regard him as
queer,eccentric,or fanatic forgets that the
ownership of his body,the responsibility for its
well-being,belongs to him, not
them."
--Dr.Paul Brunton
|
The standard four food groups are
based on American agricultural lobbies. Why do
we have a milk group? Because we
have a National Dairy Council. Why do we have a
meat group? Because we have an
extremely powerful meat lobby.
--Marion Nestle
|
If you step back
and look at the data, the optimum
amount of red meat you eat should be zero.
--Dr.Walter Willet
|
Vegetarians have the best diet. They
have the lowest rates of coronary disease of any
group in the country....Some
people scoff at vegetarians, but they have a
fraction of our heart attack rate
and they have only 40 percent of our cancer
rate. They outlive other men by
about six years now.
--Dr.William Castelli,M.D.
|
Whether
industralized societies...can cure
themselves of thier meat addictions may
ultimately be a greater factor in world
health than all the docters,health insurance
policies,and drugs put together.
--The China-Oxford-Cornell Project on
Nutrition
|
I was raised on a dairy farm and ate
plenty of meat and eggs until about twenty years
ago. I started doing
nutritional research, and a decade pr so after
that my family made some major
dietary changes. I'm just paying attention to
what the data are telling me: The
scientific evidence came first.
--T. Colin Campbell
|
There is strong
medical evidence that complete
freedom from eating animal flesh or cow's milk
products is a gateway to optimal
nutritional health.
--Dr.Klaper
|
Would you like to go to pasture with
a chicken,cut him up, then drop him into a fresh
manure pile, and eat him?
That's what the project is like coming from
chicken plants today.
--Chicken Inspector
|
It used to be if
a bird had a severe contamination,
you condemned the sucker. But nowadays my own
supervising inspector says, "There
can be no more bad birds on your tally. You've
had to many."
--A seven
year poultry inspector
|
The oath I took as an inspector said
if I ever saw anything wrong I was supposted to
report it. But today I can't
report anything.Today, if you blow your whistle,
you're in trouble with the
inspection service. I feel the oath I took is
violated every day I work.
--William Freeman a 25 yr Inspector
|
I would expect
an extremely high percentage of the
chickens would test positive. Our poultry
industry clients wouldn't like that.
--Brian Shelton Pathogen Control
|
I'm ashamed to even let people know
I am a Usda inspector. There are thousands of
diseased and unwholesome birds
going right on down the line.
--Poultry Inspector
|
I know hundreds
of people who have spent years and
thousands of dollars on tests looking for ulcers
or spastic bowels. I tell them
to lay off all dairy products for two weeks. The
results are usually so striking
that it changes thier lives.
--David Jacobs
|
An important fact to remember is
that all natural diets, including purely
vegetarian diets without a hint of
dairy products, contain amounts of calcium that
are above the treshold for
meeting your nutritional needs....In
fact,calcium deficiency caused by an
insufficient amount if calcium in the diet is
not known to occur in humans.
--John McDougall
|
There exists a
substantial body of competent and
reliable scientific evidence that eating eggs
increases the risk of heart
attacks or heart disease....This evidence is
systematic,consistent,strong,and
congruent.
--Judge Ernest G. Barnes
|
"Our food system takes abundant
grain,which people can't afford,and shrinks it
into meat,which better-off people
will pay for."
--Frances Moore Lappe
|
When you see the
golden arches you are probally on
your way to the pearly gates.
--William Castelli,M.D.
|
The fact is that there is enough
food in the world for everyone. But tragically,
much of the world's food and
land resources are tied up in producing beef and
other livestock--food for the
well off--while millions of children and adults
suffer from malnutrition and
starvation.
--Dr.Walden Bello
|
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.
--Dr.Walden Bello
|
I don't have any understanding of a
human being who doesn't respect the beauty of
life and that goes for all
creatures that have thoughts,feelings and needs.
--Alicia Silverstone
|
I know what it
feels like to be hurt,and I don't
want to cause that pain to any other person or
creature. But somehow, in
society, we numb ourselves in order to make
money or to feel better about
ourselves, such as with cosmetics or food. We
say to ourselves," I'm going to
use this animal. I'm going to say it doesn't
have much worth so that I can allow
myself to do these cruel things". And that just
isn't fair.
--Alicia
Silverstone
|
We always had dogs,so I understood
all the joy and the love animals are capable of
giving. It's crazy to me that
some people have dogs in thier homes, but they
treat them more like furniture.
--Alicia Silverstone
|
Not that I
say,"Oh,I'm not going to associate with
certain people.," but I have my world,and I only
want to be around people who I
feel stimulated by. I have to be honest I do
have a new quest: I want to meet
more vegetarians,people who are more like
minded. There's something real neat
about that feeling. It makes you feel so settled
to know there's somebody else
sitting right there,being so passionate about
what i'm passionate about. I don't
want to be around selfish people. I try to keep
myself surrounded by deep people
who will move me.
--Alicia Silverstone
|
“They’ve been trying to test on
animals for the past 50 years. Nobody’s come up
with a cure,” he says. “If you
want to test on somebody, test on me.”
--Montell Williams
|
I'm a big health
food freak and a vegetarian
devotee.
--Chelsea Clinton
|
We don't live the lives of Eskimos.
We don't need to kill animals for fashion.
--Charlize Theron
|
It's sad. That's
a living creature. We don't have
the right to take thier life away for fashion.
--Carmen Electra
|
The 1950's American dream of owning
a mink coat is as dead as the 60 mink killed to
make that coat.
--Trish
Donnally
|
I admit to
having worn suede and leather pants
myself for a while, but you just never feel
clean, and it's degenerate, anyway,
to wear animal skins.... So I went back to
bluejeans after my degenerate period.
--Andy Warhol
|
The skin of a python is no less
precious to the snake than fur is to the fox.
--Maneka Ghandhi
|
"Many years ago,
I was in a Broadway show and I had
to wear a fox fur around my shoulders. One day
my hand touched one of the fox's
legs. It seemed to be in two pieces. Then it
dawned on me.... her leg had
probally been snapped in two by the steel trap
that had caught it."
--Bea
Arthur
|
I have witnessed and tended to
calves in rodeos who became paralyzed and whose
tracheas were totally or
partially severed. Slamming them to the ground
has caused rupture of several
internal organs leading to a slow and agonizing
death.
--Dr. E.J.
Finocchino
|
I quit eating
red meat a long time ago. I'm a
vegetarian, but not by a moral issue or any kind
of stand. I still eat dairy.
And I quit eating sugar about the same time I
quit eating red meat, but I eat
fruit.
--Dwight Yoakam
|
"I don't eat meat, fish, or eggs. I
was never a big meat-eater, but I've got more
energy now," says Shania, who
hasn't eaten an animal since she married
longtime vegetarian (and record
producer) Mutt Lange.
--Shania Twain
|
The person I
love would never wear fur. Fur just
makes me think of shallow women who have no
conscience. The fur industry belongs
to a time when people were selfish beyond
belief. If you were some ancient
tribal cheiftain, and there was not a department
store nearby 350 years ago, I'd
understand. But now, we have synthetic
fibers,and it's not necessary. The
elitism of fur makes me wanna puke.
--Gavin Rossdale
|
On going vegetarian." I was sitting
here eating my plate of chicken salad, and
suddenly I looked down and saw all
the meat on my plate and just wasn't hungry
anymore. So i've decided I'm not
going to eat meat.
--Shiri Appleby
|
I think there's
something odd about eating another
living anything.
--Shania Twain
|
Nothing’s changed my life more. I
feel better about myself as a person, being
conscious and responsible for my
actions and I lost weight and my skin cleared up
and I got bright eyes and I
just became stronger and healthier and happier.
Can’t think of anything better
in the world to be but be vegan.”
--Alicia Silverstone
|
It does take a
little work to be a vegetarian… but
it’s so worth it, oh it’s so worth it!
--Tippi Hedren
|
There’s so many (vegetarian) foods
now that are available at the market . The same
with drive-throughs. Now, a lot
of them serve veggie burgers just like the
restaurants are doing. So, it’s
really very easy.
--Kevin Nealon
|
Vegetarianism…
that is me. I don’t eat meat. It’s
been over 10 years. Actually it’s been 11 and a
half years and I feel good and I
feel like I look good and I have energy… and you
have to look at what you’re
putting in your body. I eat vegetables and I eat
grain and I take care of myself
and I don’t think I look that bad, do I?
--Tracy Bingham
|
I became a vegetarian in 1958 and it
was very difficult in those days to really
maintain that because there weren’t
many options… alternatives. But, now, it’s a
growing trend because… the
economics are there. See, there’s simply enough
people demanding it that it’s
profitable to supply vegetarians with those
products.
--Dennis Weaver
|
I have been a
vegetarian for about 10 years. And it
really was due to the reading that I did. And
they explain so that you
understand why it’s important for the planet’s
survival along with compassion
for animals. It certainly made it much easier
for me. I lost weight really fast.
My mother died from cancer so this is all very
personal to me. And I just would
like the planet to be a better place. And I
think you’ll find a vegetarian diet
to be really incredible these days…
--Linda Blair
|
I’ve been vegan for about 10 and a
half years. It’s been all good. I’m obviously
much healthier…
--Woody
Harrelson
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