Sharon Gannon Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

• It is a fact that the ecological devastation of the planet can be traced to the consumption of meat and dairy, which contributes to water, soil, and air pollution as well as global warming and the mass extinction of many species of plant and animal forms.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Air, Mass Extinction

• All breathing beings are spiritual; this includes everyone who breathes, whether they are animals or humans, carnivores or vegetarians.

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  Spiritual, Animal, Breathing

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

• Through the practices of yoga, we discover that concern for the happiness and well being of others, including animals, must be an essential part of our own quest for happiness and well being. The fork can be a powerful weapon of mass destruction or a tool to create peace on Earth.

  Sharon Gannon

  Success, Powerful, Yoga

• On average, most people consume between 100 - 120 grams of protein per day. Not only is that unhealthy, it's extremely dangerous, as the majority of the protein consumed is animal based.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Average, People

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

• If we want to consider the sanctity of life in deciding what to eat, the choice is clear. Eating a plant based diet causes less harm, to ourselves, to the other animals, to the planet.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Choices, Want

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

• Some people may argue that if the animals are treated humanely prior to being slaughtered, this justifies their confinement and slaughter. Is it ethical to rob beings of their freedom but give them a comfortable prison and provide them with food until they become fat enough to be slaughtered? Any way you look at it, farms are places where animals are kept in preparation to be slaughtered and ultimately eaten as food.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, People, Giving

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

• The raising of animals for food and all that it entails is the single most destructive force impacting our planet's fragile ecosystems. Our planet simply cannot sustain the greed of billions of human beings who are eating other animals.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Ecosystems, Greed

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

• Some meat eaters defend meat eating by pointing out that it is natural: in the wild, animals eat one another. The animals that end up on our breakfast, lunch, and dinner plates, however, aren't those who normally eat other animals. The animals we exploit for food are not the lions and tigers and bears of the world. For the most part, we eat the gentle vegan animals. However, on today's farms, we actually force them to become meat eaters by making them eat feed containing the rendered remains of other animals, which they would never eat in the wild.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Meat Eating, Lunch

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

• I passionately feel that as long as we view ourselves as superior and other animals as exploitable our consciousness will remain stuck in a level of ignorance that will disallow a full realization of the truth underlying reality.

  Sharon Gannon

  Ignorance, Reality, Animal

  "Chanting Compassion with David Life & Sharon Gannon". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• It's important to understand that calcium isn't just about what you eat; it's also about what you keep. Acidic animal products mine minerals like potassium, magnesium and calcium from our bodies. In fact, the countries that consume the most dairy have the highest rates of hip fracture and osteoporosis.

  Sharon Gannon

  Country, Animal, Osteoporosis

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

• Because we lack sharp claws, aren't very fast on our feet, and aren't exactly endowed with lightning reflexes, it would be very difficult if not impossible for us to run down an animal, catch it with our bare hands, and tear through its fur and skin in order to eat it. Biologically, we are designed to be frugivorous herbivores eating mainly fruits, seeds, roots, and leaves.

  Sharon Gannon

  Running, Animal, Hands

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

• Is it really that much better to make friends with animals before you kill them than to treat them as nameless, faceless objects before you kill them? From a yogic point of view, one must weigh the karmic consequences of perceiving others as mere objects to be used and the consequences of profiting from the suffering of others.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Views, Suffering Of Others

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

• It is true that every being is enjoying life or suffering as a direct result of his or her own past actions. The animals in the factory farms may have been meat-eating human beings in a previous birth; we don't know, and it is not our place to judge.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Past, Meat Eating

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

• Lions and other carnivorous animals do eat meat, but that doesn't mean we should. They would die if they didn't eat meat. Human beings, in contrast, choose to eat meat; it isn't a physiological necessity.

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  Mean, Animal, Meat

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

• The fact is that eating meat and dairy is bad for your health, the health of the animals eaten, as well as the health of the planet.

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  Animal, Meat, Facts

• Yes, all of life is sacred, including plants; and yes, there is research that demonstrates that plants have feelings - they feel it when their leaves or stems are ripped - and there is scientific evidence that while plants do not have brains and nervous systems like animals, they nevertheless actively work to ensure their survival - they want to live, thrive, reproduce, evolve.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Feelings, Brain

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

• We have been conditioned, taught, and coerced by the agents of our culture (parents, grandparents, advertisers, food critic, etc.) to eat the flesh and drink the milk of other animals. Because of this conditioning, which has occurred over a long period of time (thousands of years), we have developed addictive eating habits and blinded ourselves to the facts of our biological system and its true needs.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Years, Long

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

• Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, use for entertainment or for any exploitative purpose.

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  Animal, Purpose, Use

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

• Knowing the truth about the hell-realms that animals have to endure, it would be wise of us to do our best now not to plant the karmic seeds that would cause us to be reborn as an animal in one of those hell realms.

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  Wise, Animal, Knowing

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

• Lions and other carnivorous animals do a lot of things besides eat meat. They live outdoors, not in houses; they don't wear clothes or drive around in cars; they usually sleep for many hours after eating a meal. Why cite just one of the many things that they do and argue that we should imitate them? This doesn't make much sense.

  Sharon Gannon

  Sleep, Animal, Clothes

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

• As humans, we do get to choose what we eat, and when we choose to eat a plant, we are eating (i.e., harming) just that plant, plus indirectly whatever nutrients that plant consumed over its lifetime (and we are also harming whatever beings may have been living on that plant or who were injured or killed in the harvesting process). But when we eat an animal, we are eating not just that animal, but also indirectly all of the plants and other beings that that animal ate over its lifetime - those plants became the flesh that we eat.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, May, Flesh

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

• The number of human deaths due to hardening of the arteries and other similar diseases suggests that human beings were not meant to eat animals; our bodies are unable to digest the animal fat effectively and it ends up stored in our blood vessels, not to mention our waist lines, buttocks and thighs!

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Blood, Numbers

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

• Welfarists are concerned with the quality of the animals' lives before or even during their slaughter and want animals to be treated, and slaughtered, "humanely." Welfarists don't necessarily feel that it is wrong for humans to use animals for our own purposes.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Quality, Purpose

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

• If yogis are to come to the realization of the interconnectedness of life, then we must free ourselves from the conditioning that has caused us to think it is all right to exclude all the other animals from our own goals of peace, freedom, and happiness.

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  Animal, Thinking, Goal

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

• The ridicule you may endure from others when you speak up for animals can help you to hone your skills, enabling you to become better at articulating your message in an informed, compassionate, and communicative way.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Skills, Enabling

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