Vegan Health Quotes

Your choice of diet can influence your long term health prospects more than any other action you might take.

C. Everett Koop

Vegetarianism, Long, Choices

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Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics.

Peter Singer

Animal, Ethics, Vegetarian

Jim Mason, Peter Singer (1980). “Animal Factories”, Crown

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Nothing's changed my life more. I feel better about myself as a person, being conscious and responsible for my actions and I lost weight and my skin cleared up and I got bright eyes and I just became stronger and healthier and happier. Can't think of anything better in the world to be but be vegan.

Alicia Silverstone

Funny Inspirational, Eye, Feel Better

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Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

Thomas A. Edison

Life, Peace, Honesty

"Innovate Like Edison : The Five-Step System for Breakthrough Business Success". Book by Michael J. Gelb and Sarah Miller Caldicott, p. 67,

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

Chelsea Clinton

Funny Inspirational, Vegan Food, Vegetarian

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

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The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.

Plato

Philosophical, Animal, Tree

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The really great thing about my shoe store is that there's not one dead animal in it.

Stella McCartney

Animal, Shoes, Vegetarian

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As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.

Pythagoras

Health, Animal, Men

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I don't have any understanding of a human being who doesn't respect the beauty of life and that goes for all creatures that have thoughts, feelings and needs.

Alicia Silverstone

Respect, Animal, Feelings

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I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open and put them on cholesterol lowering drugs for the rest of their lives.

Dean Ornish

Food, Health, Cutting

"Hearts and Minds" by Roberto Suro, New York Times Magazine, December 29, 1991.

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It takes nothing away from a human to be kind to an animal.

Joaquin Phoenix

Animal, Be Kind, Vegan

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Compassion is the foundation of everything positive, everything good. If you carry the power of compassion to the marketplace and the dinner table, you can make your life really count.

Rue McClanahan

Compassion, Foundation, Tables

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

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Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

Albert Einstein

Funny Inspirational, Food, Health

Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

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Could you look an animal in the eyes and say to it, 'My appetite is more important than your suffering'?

Moby

Eye, Animal, Suffering

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My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.

Leonardo da Vinci

Vegetarian Diet, Vegetarianism, Body

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The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.

Albert Schweitzer

Nature, Philosophical, Animal

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An important fact to remember is that all natural diets, including purely vegetarian diets without a hint of dairy products, contain amounts of calcium that are above the treshold for meeting your nutritional needs....In fact,calcium deficiency caused by an insufficient amount if calcium in the diet is not known to occur in humans.

John A. McDougall

Vegetarian Diet, Important, Needs

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If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people,' you'd better live real close to a real good hospital.

Neal Barnard

Real, Animal, Rights

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May all that have life be delivered from suffering.

Gautama Buddha

Buddhist, Animal, Suffering

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If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.

Paul McCartney

Wall, Food, Health

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

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I grew up in cattle country-that's why I became a vegetarian. Meat stinks, for the animals, the environment, and your health.

K. D. Lang

Country, Animal, Meat

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A human can be healthy without killing animals for food.

Leo Tolstoy

Food, Animal, Meat Consumption

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The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.

Neal Barnard

War, Native American, Animal

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If there would come a voice from God saying, 'I'm against vegetarianism!' I would say, 'Well, I am for it!' This is how
strongly I feel in this regard.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Vegetarianism, Voice, Vegan

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If you step back and look at the data, the optimum amount of red meat you eat should be zero.

Walter Willett

Zero, Vegetarianism, Data

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