Quotes on Vegetarian Food

When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.

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.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

King of the animals — as thou hast described him — I should rather say king of the beasts, thou being the greatest — because thou hast spared slaying them, in order that they may give thee their children for the benefit of the gullet, of which thou hast attempted to make a sepulchre for all animals; and I would say still more, if it were allowed me to speak the entire truth.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

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

I have lived temperately, eating little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principal diet.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.

It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I do not regard flesh-food as necessary at any stage

I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.