Vegan Food Quotes - Page 2

• I'm a big health-food freak and a vegetarian devotee.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Funny Inspirational, Vegetarian, Freak

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The American fast food diet and the meat eating habits of the wealthy around the world support a world food system that diverts food resources from the hungry. A diet higher in whole grains and legumes and lower in beef and other meat is not just healthier for ourselves but also contributes to changing the world system that feeds some people and leaves others hungry.

  Walden Bello

  Vegetarianism, Meat Eating, People

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• There are viable (and usually better) alternatives to the use of animals for food, sport, clothing, & experimentation. I beg you to discontinue any actions that might cause or condone animal torture, abuse, or destruction.

  Moby

  Sports, Animal, Abuse

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• I know what it feels like to be hurt,and I don't want to cause that pain to any other person or creature. But somehow, in society, we numb ourselves in order to make money or to feel better about ourselves, such as with cosmetics or food. We say to ourselves, I'm going to use this animal. I'm going to say it doesn't have much worth so that I can allow myself to do these cruel things. And that just isn't fair.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Hurt, Pain, Feel Better

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• We patronize the animals for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they are more finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other Nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.

  Henry Beston

  Taken, Fate, Men

  Henry Beston, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (2001). “The Best of Beston: A Selection from the Natural World of Henry Beston from Cape Cod to the St. Lawrence”, p.18, David R. Godine Publisher

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• The standard four food groups are based on American agricultural lobbies. Why do we have a milk group? Because we have a National Dairy Council. Why do we have a meat group? Because we have an extremely powerful meat lobby.

  Marion Nestle

  Funny Inspirational, Powerful, Four

  "Feeding Frenzy" by Laura Shapiro, www.newsweek.com. May 26, 1991.

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• Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.

  Franz Kafka

  Animal, Compassion, Vegetarianism

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• I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live, I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Flesh, Vegetarian Health, Stage

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.151, Rajpal & Sons

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• 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.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life, Death, Animal

  Leo Tolstoy, J. M. Packham (2015). “Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers”, p.42, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Death, Baby, Buddhist

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• 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.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Food, Health, Animal

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1911). “The novels and other works of Lyof N. Tolstoï”

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• A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Spiritual, Food, Men

  "George Bernard Shaw: His Life and Personality". Book by Hesketh Pearson, 1942.

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• A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children.

  David Brenner

  Funny, Witty, Children

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• One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying himself with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Philosophical, Animal, Oxen

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

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Justice

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• I haven't bought any leather articles for a very long time. My ideal is to be able to avoid all animal products, in food as well as clothing.

  Martina Navratilova

  Animal, Long, Able

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• There's so many vegetarian foods now that are available at the market . The same with drive-throughs. Now, a lot of them serve veggie burgers just like the restaurants are doing. So, it's really very easy.

  Kevin Nealon

  Vegetarianism, Burgers, Easy

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• Vegan food is not only good for you, the animals, and the planet, but cooking vegan can be simple, easy, and fun.

  Sharon Gannon

  Fun, Animal, Simple

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• In my experience of vegan food it tends to be a symphony of beige.

  Jay Rayner

  Food, Symphony, Vegan

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