Quotes on Vegan

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

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

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.

I'd like to see animals removed from the entertainment business. Chimpanzees and apes won't perform unless you beat them. Circuses keep elephants in chains 90 percent of the time. Elephants need freedom of movement. In circuses, they live in cramped quarters, which is not the life intended for them by nature. Some are beaten daily, forced to do ridiculous tricks and robbed of every shred of dignity.

We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet- for the sake of hamburgers

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

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.

Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless. Christmas dinner's dark and blue. When you stop and try to see it From the turkey's point of view.

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

When I was 88 years old, I gave up meat entirely and switched to a plant foods diet following a slight stroke. During the following months, I not only lost 50 pounds, but gained strength in my legs and picked up stamina. Now, at age 93, I'm on the same plant-based diet, and I still don't eat any meat or dairy products. I either swim, walk, or paddle a canoe daily and I feel the best I've felt since my heart problems began.

Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.

My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.

Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food

Every animal that walks the earth, or swims, or flies is precious beyond description, something so rare and wonderful that it equals the stars or the ocean or the mind of man.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

A man can live and 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.

In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do.

Everyone has to find what is right for them, and it is different for everyone. Eating for me is how you proclaim your beliefs three times a day. That is why all religions have rules about eating. Three times a day, I remind myself that I value life and do not want to cause pain to or kill other living beings. That is why I eat the way I do.

There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.