Vegan Quotes - Page 17

• For me, it always has to be about health. That's why I'm a vegan. Well, I don't even do that for my health entirely, I do it for animals.

  Emily Deschanel

  Animal, Wells

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• American children are the heaviest worldwide, and they are getting heavier at a faster rate than other children around the globe. This spread of obesity foreshadows an explosion in degenerative diseases, such as diabetes, heart disease, and cancer waiting to erupt in our children's future. Together we can stop this tragedy from ever happening.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Children, Cancer, Heart

  Joel Fuhrman, M.D. (2010). “Disease-Proof Your Child: Feeding Kids Right”, p.23, Macmillan

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• None so blind as those who will not see.

  Matthew Henry

  Blind, American Gods, Stubbornness

  Matthew Henry (2010). “The New Matthew Henry Commentary: The Classic Work with Updated Language”, p.3624, Zondervan

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• I’m not a true vegan. I dabble in sustainable fish and dawdle in the consumption of eggs. Steak doesn’t speak to me, and tempeh is so-so. I’ll savor a solitary apricot that’s been kissed by
  my baby.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Baby, Eggs, Apricots

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• I was raised on a dairy farm and ate plenty of meat and eggs until about twenty years ago. I started doing nutritional research, and a decade pr so after that my family made some major dietary changes. I'm just paying attention to what the data are telling me: The scientific evidence came first.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Years, Data, Eggs

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• If your meals consistently revolve around corpse multiple times daily, you might become one sooner than you planned.

  Kris Carr

  Meals, Might, Vegetarian

  Kris Carr, Sheila Buff (2011). “Crazy Sexy Diet: Eat Your Veggies, Ignite Your Spark, And Live Like You Mean It!”, p.87, Rowman & Littlefield

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• This for many people is what is most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing. It's not as though the rest of us don't countenance the killing of tens of millions of animals every year. Yet for some reason we feel more comfortable with the mechanical killing practiced, out of view and without emotion by industrial agriculture.

  Michael Pollan

  Animal, Hunting, Views

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.182, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Vegetarians always ask about getting enough protein. But I don't know any nutrition expert (who) can plan a diet of natural foods resulting in a protein deficiency, so long as you're not deficient in calories. You need only 5 or 6 percent of total calories in protein... and it is pratically impossible to get below 9 percent in ordinary diets.

  Nathan Pritikin

  Long, Ordinary, Experts

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• Do we, as humans, having an ability to reason and to communicate abstract ideas verbally and in writing, and to form ethical and moral judgments using the accumulated knowledge of the ages, have the right to take the lives of other sentient organisms, particularly when we are not forced to do so by hunger or dietary need, but rather do so for the somewhat frivolous reason that we like the taste of meat? In essence, should we know better?

  Peter Cheeke

  Writing, Essence, Ideas

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• The skin of a python is no less precious to the snake than fur is to the fox.

  Maneka Gandhi

  Python, Snakes, Skins

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• I'm on a vegan diet, I do yoga every day, I work out, I'm totally spiritual.

  Avril Lavigne

  Spiritual, Yoga, Work Out

  "Avril: Bad Girl Turned Good". Calgary Sun Interview, June 2005.

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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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• It is true that the reluctance to abstain from animal food, in those who have been long accustomed to its stimulus, is so great in some persons of weak minds, as to be scarcely overcome; but this is far from bringing any argument in its favour

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Animal, Long, Mind

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume”

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• Concerning B12, 39% of Americans have a B12 deficiency yet only 1% of Americans are vegan. How can this be a vegan issue? And if nearly everyone in America is sick or has died from a disease, yet only 1% is vegan, how can sickness be a vegan problem?

  Gary Yourofsky

  America, Issues, Sick

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

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• I've always felt that animals are the purest spirits in the world. They don't fake or hide their feelings, and they are the most loyal creatures on Earth. And somehow we humans think we're smarter-what a joke.

  Pink

  Thinking, Animal, Fake

  "P!nk Tells Circus, ‘Pack Your Trunks!’". PETA Interview, www.peta2.com. July 18, 2011.

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• Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Life, Marriage

  "Maxims for Revolutionists (#1)". Book by George Bernard Shaw, 1903.

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• A vegan in a Hummer has a lighter carbon footprint than a beef eater in a Prius.

  Michael Pollan

  Carbon Footprint, Beef, Prius

  "Michael Pollan’s ‘Hummer-Driving Vegan’ Claim Debunked" by Kyle Cassidy, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• So you are the people tearing down the Brazilian rainforest and breeding cattle.

  Prince Philip

  People, Vegetarian, Breeding

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• I have reached zero tolerance for the cruelty against our animal brothers. If we are to nuture our culture, let's begin with the animals who have been nothing but our beasts of burden for so long.

  Rikki Rockett

  Brother, Zero, Animal

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• Personal purity isn’t really the issue. Not supporting animal abuse – and persuading others not to support it – is.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Issues, Support

  Peter Singer, Jim Mason (2007). “The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter”, p.283, Rodale

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• The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation?

  John Muir

  Humility, Men, Compassion

  Philip Hyde, John Muir (1992). “The range of light: photographs”, Gibbs Smith

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• Being around all the animals in the film Dr. .Doolittle made me one too.

  Samantha Eggar

  Animal, Drs, Vegetarian

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• To be a gluten-free vegan is, like, the most difficult thing you can possibly be.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Gluten, Difficult, Gluten Free

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• My own view is that violence is a part of classical Haida literature - and of every mythology everywhere, so far as I can tell - because it's part of life itself. In the world of the hamburger stand and the supermarket, or the vegan café and the ashram, you might try to tell yourself it's possible to be nonviolent. In a hunting and gathering society, violence is more difficult to hide.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Hunting, Trying, Literature

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In my opinion, if most urban meat-eaters were to visit an industrial broiler house, to se how the birds are raised, and could see the birds being "harvested" and then being "processed" in a poultry processing plant, they would not be impressed and some, perhaps many of them would swear off eating chicken and perhaps all meat.

  Peter Cheeke

  House, Bird, Environmental

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