What is your favorite quote about vegetarianism?!
Some of mine are:
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, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other!.!.!.!. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian!. ~Paul McCartney
If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth -- beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals -- would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals!? ~George Bernard ShawWww@FoodAQ@Com
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, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other!.!.!.!. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian!. ~Paul McCartney
If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth -- beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals -- would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals!? ~George Bernard ShawWww@FoodAQ@Com
Answers:
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 millions in order to protect his domestic animals and their feed!. Then he kills domestic animals by the billions 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 a card praying for “Peace on Earth!.”
-C!. David CoatesWww@FoodAQ@Com
-C!. David CoatesWww@FoodAQ@Com
(from the preface to his 1991 book, Old MacDonald’s Factory Farm)Www@FoodAQ@Com
"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 (1856 - 1950)
;-)Www@FoodAQ@Com
--George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
;-)Www@FoodAQ@Com
"But I don’t answer to inevitabilities, and neither do you!. I don’t answer to the economy!. I don’t answer to tradition and I don’t answer to Everyone!. For me, it comes down to a question of whether I am a man or just a consumer!. Whether to heed my conscience or my every craving, to assert my free will or just my will!. Whether to side with the powerful and comfortable or with the weak, afflicted, and forgotten!. Whether, as an economic actor in a free market, I answer to the God of money or the God of mercy!."
---Matthew Scully, from his book Dominion: the power of man, the suffering of animals, and the call to mercyWww@FoodAQ@Com
---Matthew Scully, from his book Dominion: the power of man, the suffering of animals, and the call to mercyWww@FoodAQ@Com
"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!." -- The James Anthony Froude (British historian)
"But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the sun and light and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy!." -- PlutarchWww@FoodAQ@Com
"But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the sun and light and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy!." -- PlutarchWww@FoodAQ@Com
"The question is not 'Can they reason!?' nor 'Can they talk!?' but 'Can they suffer!?'" JEREMY BENTHAM!.
And this one from the late and great RIVER PHOENIX
"When I was old enough to realize that all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it!. It was like bullies would take control of younger kids in the school yard!.”Www@FoodAQ@Com
And this one from the late and great RIVER PHOENIX
"When I was old enough to realize that all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it!. It was like bullies would take control of younger kids in the school yard!.”Www@FoodAQ@Com
Basically the whole Smiths song "Meat is Murder" ::
"Heifer whines could be human cries"
"This beautiful creature must die
A death for no reason
And death for no reason is murder"
"Do you know how animals die!?"
"who hears when animals cry!?"Www@FoodAQ@Com
"Heifer whines could be human cries"
"This beautiful creature must die
A death for no reason
And death for no reason is murder"
"Do you know how animals die!?"
"who hears when animals cry!?"Www@FoodAQ@Com
http://www!.lyricsfreak!.com/s/smiths/meat!.!.!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
''I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look on the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men''!.- Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)Www@FoodAQ@Com
My ''Being Vegetarian for Dummies'' book!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of survival for life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet!."
-Albert EinsteinWww@FoodAQ@Com
-Albert EinsteinWww@FoodAQ@Com
"I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants!." -A!. Whitney BrownWww@FoodAQ@Com
I'm a vegetarian, because I choose not to make my body a graveyard for the rotten corpses of murdered animals!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
I like the one by George Bernard Shaw!. It hits the nail on the head!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
"As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields!."
Leo TolstoyWww@FoodAQ@Com
Leo TolstoyWww@FoodAQ@Com
I didn't get this far too eat carrots!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter-faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn!.
To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living!.
Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food!. The body, these waterheads imagine, is a temple that should not be polluted by animal protein!. It's healthier, they insist, though every vegetarian waiter I've worked with is brought down by any rumor of a cold!.
Oh, I'll accomodate them, I'll rummage around for something to feed them, for a 'vegetarian plate', if called on to do so!. Fourteen dollars for a few slices of grilled eggplant and zucchini suits my food cost fine!."
— Anthony BourdainWww@FoodAQ@Com
To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living!.
Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food!. The body, these waterheads imagine, is a temple that should not be polluted by animal protein!. It's healthier, they insist, though every vegetarian waiter I've worked with is brought down by any rumor of a cold!.
Oh, I'll accomodate them, I'll rummage around for something to feed them, for a 'vegetarian plate', if called on to do so!. Fourteen dollars for a few slices of grilled eggplant and zucchini suits my food cost fine!."
— Anthony BourdainWww@FoodAQ@Com
Leonard Da Vinci: "Truly man is a the kind of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them!. We live by the death of others!. We are burial places!"
Pythagoras: "As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other!. Indeed, he who shows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love!."
Albert Einstein: "It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of [hu]mankind"
George B!. shaw: "When a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity!."
Ben Franklin: Flesh eating is unprovoked murder!."
Isaac B singer: "When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice!. Man prays for mercy, but is unwilling to extend it to others!. Why then should man expect mercy from God!? It's unfair to expect something that you are not willing to give!."
J!.H!. Kellogg: "A dead cow or sheep lying in the pasture is recognized as carrion!. The same sort of carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food!"Www@FoodAQ@Com
Pythagoras: "As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other!. Indeed, he who shows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love!."
Albert Einstein: "It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of [hu]mankind"
George B!. shaw: "When a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity!."
Ben Franklin: Flesh eating is unprovoked murder!."
Isaac B singer: "When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice!. Man prays for mercy, but is unwilling to extend it to others!. Why then should man expect mercy from God!? It's unfair to expect something that you are not willing to give!."
J!.H!. Kellogg: "A dead cow or sheep lying in the pasture is recognized as carrion!. The same sort of carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food!"Www@FoodAQ@Com
"For every animal you don't eat, I'm going to eat three!."
-Maddox
"Animals have no syntax, so we eat them!."
-Stoic quoteWww@FoodAQ@Com
-Maddox
"Animals have no syntax, so we eat them!."
-Stoic quoteWww@FoodAQ@Com
"Eat beef - the West wasn't won on salads!."Www@FoodAQ@Com
Where's the beef!?Www@FoodAQ@Com