Vegan Quotes - Page 14

• The idolatry of food cuts across class lines. This can be seen in the public's toleration of a level of cruelty in meat production that it would tolerate nowhere else. If someone inflicts pain on an animal for visual, aural, or sexual gratification, we consider him a monster, and the law makes at least a token effort at punishment. If someone's goal is to put the "product" in his mouth?

  Brian Reynolds Myers

  Pain, Cutting, Animal

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• If a robin redbreast in a cage
  Puts all heaven in a rage,
  How feels heaven when
  Dies the billionth battery hen?

  Spike Milligan

  Heaven, Robins, Batteries

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• Be a good example and a positive ambassador for vegan living, and be patient and understanding with people who aren't vegan. Support any move non-vegans make away from animal consumption toward plant-based eating. Nurture even small positive steps, as these tend to empower people and build momentum toward bigger steps.

  Gene Baur

  Moving, Animal, People

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• Remember that veganism is a compassionate lifestyle not a punitive religion. Enjoy it! And if the going gets rough, it's better to relax the rules occasionally than to give up the game entirely.

  Karen Dawn

  Giving Up, Games, Relax

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• The most ethical diet just so happens to be the most environmentally sound diet and just so happens to be the healthiest.

  Michael Greger

  Sound, Ethical, Happens

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• We can live as we were meant to live - simply, joyously, of and on the earth. We can live with all our effort and with pure happiness.

  Scott Jurek

  Effort, Earth, Live Simply

  Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman (2012). “Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness”, p.225, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I decided to pick the diet that I thought would maximize my chances of long-term survival.

  Al Gore

  Long, Survival, Chance

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• Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It's because they know what it's like to be treated like an animal.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Animal, Holocaust, Survivor

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• If a rabbit defined intelligence the way man does, then the most intelligent animal would be a rabbit, followed by the animal most willing to obey the commands of a rabbit.

  Robert Breault

  Humility, Intelligent, Men

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• How self-centered, how arrogant... Imagine the awesome privilege of living in a society where you get to choose what you eat at each and every meal. When I was a kid, I was a vegetarian and a vegan for long stretches... I was a commodity cheese-atarian.

  Sherman Alexie

  Kids, Self, Long

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• Every animal that walks the earth, or swims, or flies is precious beyond description, something so rare and wonderful that it equals the stars or the ocean or the mind of man.

  James A. Michener

  Stars, Ocean, Animal

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• There are many people who don't do well on a vegetarian or vegan diet, that for them, meat is a very nutritious food. So, I'm not prepared to give up meat. I don't think we need to give up meat, but we certainly need to change the way we raise meat and diminish the amount of it in our diet.

  Michael Pollan

  Giving Up, Thinking, People

  Source: indianapublicmedia.org

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• Feminism seeks to turn the biggest, bloodiest carnivore in the world - passion - into a right-on cud-chewing vegan. It can never work. Sex was never meant to be that way. Sex, on the whole, was meant to be short, nasty and brutish. If what you want is cuddling, you should buy a puppy.

  Julie Burchill

  Sex, Passion, Cuddling

  Julie Burchill (1992). “Sex & Sensibility”

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• How come regional pandering only works in one direction, right? You never see a Southern politician trying to win votes in New York State by saying, 'I read books and make a mean vegan meatloaf.'

  Bill Maher

  New York, Book, Mean

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• As an adult, I think I wanna be living in New York City and help a lot of homeless people and try to become vegan and maybe be a band with some good friends and be making a living and be happy with how much money I have.

  Rachel Trachtenburg

  New York, Good Friend, Thinking

  "The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players: Off & On Broadway". Documentary, August 1, 2006.

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• Whenever people say, 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, 'We must be realistic,' they mean they are going to make money out of it.

  Brigid Brophy

  Fun, Mean, Compassion

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• Every November, during the certain holiday people love so much, people take a dead turkey, open up the dead turkey’s ass, or carve out a really big hole in their ass, take some stuffing and shove it inside their dead empty ass, and use the little dead ass as an oven to bake some bread. Somebody else’s dead empty bacteria-laden ass to make bread? Ass bread?! And people think vegans are weird? Because we eat tofu? And rice, and beans, and lentils?

  Gary Yourofsky

  Holiday, Thinking, Turkeys

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• Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable-the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think of sweetness; the matzo is the bread of our affliction.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Sweet, Thinking, Two

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, November 2, 2009.

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• The human body has absolutely no requirement for animal flesh. Nobody has ever been found face-down 20 yards from Burger King because they couldn't get their Whopper in time.

  Michael Klaper

  Kings, Animal, Yards

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• Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human- like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Funny, Christmas, Food

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• The awful wrongs and sufferings forced upon the innocent, helpless, faithful animal race form the blackest chapter in the whole world's history.

  R. Edward Freeman

  Animal, Race, Faithful

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• Cruelty to animals is an enormous injustice; so is expecting those on the lowest rung of the economic ladder to do the dangerous, soul-numbing work of slaughtering sentient beings on our behalf.

  Victoria Moran

  Animal, Soul, Ladders

  Victoria Moran, Adair Moran (2012). “Main Street Vegan: Everything You Need to Know to Eat Healthfully and Live Compassionately in the Real World”, p.14, Penguin

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• I've been vegetarian since the 80s and, lately, even vegan. And I once happened to witness the slaughter of a cow. What atrocity must undergo an animal to satisfy the appetite of those fat
  men who eat hamburgers!

  Anthony Kiedis

  Animal, Men, Atrocities

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• What we often fail to recognize is how efficient a vegan diet is. Less land, less water, more food for our spiraling population.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  Land, Water, Population

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• I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Rotting

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