Quotes on vegetarianism
If we aren't supposed to eat animals, then why are they made of meat?
Unknown, Author
Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant? I'm halfway through my fishburger and I realize, Oh my God. I could be eating a slow learner.
Montgomery, Lynda
My perspective of veganism was most affected by learning that the veal calf is a by-product of dairying, and that in essence there is a slice of veal in every glass of what I had thought was an innocuous white liquid - milk.
Berry, Rynn
I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.
Wilde, Oscar
Would you kill your pet dog or cat to eat it? How about an animal you're not emotionally attached to? Is the thought of slaughtering a cow or chicken or pig with your own hands too much to handle? Instead, would hiring a hit-man to do the job give you enough distance from the emotional discomfort? What animal did you put a contract out on for your supper last night? Did you at least make sure that none went to waste and to take a moment to be grateful for its sacrifice?
Anonymous
We all love animals. Why do we call some "pets" and others "dinner?"
Lang, K.D.
While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?
Shaw, George Bernard
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.
Diamond, Harvey
There is no substitute for mother's milk.
Fischer, Martin H.
Coexistence: what the farmer does with the turkey until Thanksgiving.
Connolly, Mike
We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do. Cruelty... is a fundamental sin, and admits of no arguments or nice distinctions. If only we do not allow our heart to grow callous, it protests against cruelty, is always clearly heard; and yet we go on perpetrating cruelties easily, merrily, all of us - in fact, anyone who does not join in is dubbed a crank.
Tagore, Rabindranath
If you're not vegan, you're not vegetarian.
Allineare, V.L.
I've found without question that the best way to lead others to a more plant-based diet is by example - to lead with your fork, not your mouth.
Wilke, Bernie
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
McCartney, Paul
Vegetarian: A person who eats only side dishes.
Lieberman, Gerald
Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
Stevenson, Robert Louis
My situation is a solemn one. Life is offered to me on condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will contains directions for my funeral, which will be followed not by mourning coaches, but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a small traveling aquarium of live fish, all wearing white scarfs in honor of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures.
Shaw, George Bernard
Tongue - a variety of meat, rarely served because it clearly crosses the line between a cut of beef and a piece of a dead cow.
Ekstrom, Bob
I just could not stand the idea of eating meat - I really do think that it has made me calmer... People's general awareness is getting much better, even down to buying a pint of milk: the fact that the calves are actually killed so that the milk doesn't go to them but to us cannot really be right, and if you have seen a cow in a state of extreme distress because it cannot understand why its calf isn't by, it can make you think a lot.
Bush, Kate
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?
Plutarch
A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children.
Brenner, David
Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning "lousy hunter."
Rooney, Andy
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.
Barnard, Neal
I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
Brown, A. Whitney
I will not eat anything that walks, runs, skips, hops or crawls. God knows that I've crawled on occasion, and I'm glad that no one ate me.
Poulos, Alex