Quotes On Vegetarianism

• "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." - Rabindranath Tagore
• "A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses." - George Bernard Shaw
• "We all love animals. Why do we call some "pets" and others "dinner?"" - K.D. Lang
• "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." - Alex Poulos
• "Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal." - Ingrid Newkirk
• "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." - Bob Ekstrom
• "Heart attacks... God's revenge for eating his little animal friends." - Author Unknown
• "Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth." - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
• "If you knew how meat was made, you'd probably lose your lunch." - K.D. Lang
• "We don't need to eat anyone who would run, swim, or fly away if he could." - James Cromwell
• "Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends." - George Bernard Shaw
• "How can you eat anything with eyes?" - Will Kellogg
• "If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian." - Paul McCartney
• "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
• "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
• "I do not like eating meat because I have seen lambs and pigs killed. I saw and felt their pain. They felt the approaching death. I could not bear it. I cried like a child. I ran up a hill and could not breathe. I felt that I was choking. I felt the death of the lamb." - Vaslav Nijinsky
• "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
• A veteran USDA meat inspector from Texas describes what he has seen: "Cattle dragged and choked... knocking 'em four, five, ten times. Every now and then when they're stunned they come back to life, and they're up there agonizing. They're supposed to be re-stunned but sometimes they aren't and they'll go through the skinning process alive. I've worked in four large [slaughterhouses] and a bunch of small ones. They're all the same. If people were to see this, they'd probably feel really bad about it. But in a packing house everybody gets so used to it that it doesn't mean anything." - Slaughterhouse 1997
• "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. "- Mahatma Gandhi
• "Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness." - Bill Griffith, Griffith Observatory comic strip, 1977
• "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, Queen Mab Notes
• "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