Animal Quotes - Page 28

• Once people start introducing animal products into their diet, that's when the mischief starts.

  T. Colin Campbell

  People, Introducing, Vegetarian Health

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• The people who eat the most animal protein have the most heart disease, cancer and diabetes.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Cancer, Heart, People

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• In short, it is about the multiple health benefits of consuming plant-based foods, and the largely unappreciated health dangers of consuming animal-based foods, including all types of meat, dairy and eggs.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Eggs, Meat, Benefits

  T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell (II.) (2006). “The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health”, p.21, BenBella Books

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• The primary benefit of a vegan diet is that the removal of animal products usually necessitates a higher amount of nutrient-rich plant produce. The cons of a vegan diet could be the inclusion of too much heavily processed food, including seitan and isolated soy protein, flour, sweeteners and oils.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Oil, Soy, Too Much

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• I believe we can create a truly humane, sustainable, and health food production system without killing any animals. I imagine a revolution in veganic agriculture in which small farmers grow a variety of vegetables, fruits, grains, and legumes, all fertilized with vegetable sources.

  Gene Baur

  Believe, Agriculture, Vegetables

  Gene Baur (2008). “Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food”, p.217, Simon and Schuster

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• Humans and other animals experience love and fear, and form deep emotional bonds with cherished companions. We mourn when a close friend dies, and so do other animals, as Barbara King's poignant book illustrates in compelling detail. How Animals Grieve helps us to connect and to better understand the complex social lives of other animals and of ourselves.

  Gene Baur

  Kings, Book, Emotional

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• Family farmers are victims of public policy that gives preference to feeding animals over feeding people. This has encouraged the cheap grain policy of this nation and has made the beef cartel the biggest hog at the trough.

  Howard Lyman

  People, Giving, Beef

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• There is, however, a moral basis for the vegetarian diet for which the indeterminate value of an animal's life takes on irrelevance. And that moral basis is a concern for the environment, a value as absolute as the value we all place on human life, since humanity will not survive for long on a poisoned planet. To be an environmentalist who happens to eat meat is like being a philanthropist who doesn't happen to give to charity.

  Howard Lyman

  Irrelevance, Vegetarian Diet, Long

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• Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached

  Kenneth Grahame

  Independence, Limits, Fool

  Kenneth Grahame (1908). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.125

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• Female heterosexuality is not a biological drive or an individual women's erotic attraction or attachment to another human animal which happens to be male. Female heterosexuality is a set of social institutions and practices... Those definitions... are about the oppression and exploitation of women by men.

  Marilyn Frye

  Men, Heterosexuality Is, Practice

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• Bear in mind that the children of life are the children of joy; that the lower animals are only unhappy when made so by man; that man alone of all the creatures, has "found out many inventions", the chief of which appears to be the art of making himself miserable, and of seeing all Nature stained with that dark and hateful colour.

  William Henry Hudson

  Life, Art, Nature

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• He whose intellect overcomes his lust is higher than the angels; he whose lust overcomes his intelligence is less than an animal.

  Rumi

  Angel, Lust, Intelligence

  Jelaluddin Rumi (2005). “The Rumi Collection”, p.16, Shambhala Publications

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• We humans, one species of animal amongst millions, have now become the de facto guardians of the planet's climate stability.

  Mark Lynas

  Climate, Guardian, Planets

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• The depressing thing about an Englishman's traditional love of animals is the dishonesty thereof ... Get a barbed hook into the upper lip of a salmon, drag him endlessly around the water until he loses his strength, pull him to the bank, hit him on the head with a stone, and you may well become fisherman of the year. Shoot.the salmon and you'll never be asked again.

  Clement Freud

  Depressing, Years, Water

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• We cannot doubt that animals both love and practice music. That is evident. But it seems their musical system differs from ours. It is another school....We are not familiar with their didactic works. Perhaps they don't have any.

  Erik Satie

  Music, School, Practice

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• High office, is like a pyramid; only two kinds of animals reach the summit — reptiles and eagles.

  Jean le Rond d'Alembert

  Eagles, Two, Pyramids

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• People are always the start for meanimals. When I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings,immortals, the deadthese are all people to me.

  Tanith Lee

  Supernatural Beings, People, I Can

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• There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Majority, Bats, Connections

  Helen Hunt Jackson (2010). “Ramona”, p.156, Modern Library

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• Depending on the season, between 20 and 30 percent of my collections contain some sort of eco or sustainable element, whether it's a beautiful organic fabric or a natural dye. And obviously I don't use animal skins or fur of any kind.

  Stella McCartney

  Beautiful, Skins, Fur

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• Children were pack animals; let any one of them act different from the group, and the rest would bring him down.

  Nalo Hopkinson

  Children, Groups, Different

  "The New Moon's Arms". Book by Nalo Hopkinson, 2007.

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• I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Careers, Use, Born

  Cynthia Ozick (1996). “Portrait of the Artist as a Bad Character: And Other Essays on Writing”

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• By ceasing to rear and kill animals for food, we can make so much extra food available for humans that, properly distributed, it would eliminate starvation and malnutrition from this planet. Animal Liberation is Human Liberation too.

  Peter Singer

  Planets, Liberation, Starvation

  Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

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• If we compare a severely defective human infant with a nonhuman animal, a dog or a pig, for example, we will often find the nonhuman to have superior capacities, both actual and potential, for rationality, self-consciousness, communication and anything else that can plausibly be considered morally significant.

  Peter Singer

  Dog, Communication, Pigs

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• Christianity is our foe. If animal rights is to succeed, we must destroy the Judeo-Christian religious tradition.

  Peter Singer

  Christian, Religious, Rights

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• Surely there will be some nonhuman animals whose lives, by any standards, are more valuable than the lives of some humans.

  Peter Singer

  Standards, Valuable, Live By

  Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

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