Vegetarian Diet Quotes - Page 3

• Eating a vegetarian diet, walking (exercising) everyday, and meditating is considered radical. Allowing someone to slice your chest open and graft your leg veins in your heart is considered normal and conservative.

  Dean Ornish

  Heart, Exercise, Everyday

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• People think of animals as if they were vegetables, and that is not right. We have to change the way people think about animals. I encourage the Tibetan people and all people to move toward a vegetarian diet that doesn’t cause suffering.

  Dalai Lama

  Moving, Animal, Thinking

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• I became a vegetarian out of concern for animals, but I wasn't a vegetarian long before I realized there's something to that. I don't think I would have worked for the past five years probably were it not for my vegetarian diet.

  Bob Barker

  Animal, Past, Thinking

  "Bob Barker Says Goodbye". movieweb.com. April 23, 2007.

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• Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better.

  Nicholas Stern

  Water, Meat, Use

  "Vegetarian diet is better for the planet, says Lord Stern" by David Batty, David Adam, www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2009.

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• Studies indicate that vegetarians often have lower morbidity and mortality rates. . . . Not only is mortality from coronary artery disease lower in vegetarians than in non-vegetarians, but vegetarian diets have also been successful in arresting coronary artery disease. Scientific data suggest positive relationships between a vegetarian diet and reduced risk for obesity, coronary artery disease, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and some types of cancer.

  John Robbins

  Cancer, Successful, Data

  John Robbins (2010). “The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World”, p.15, Conari Press

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• I changed my diet completely. You know, I'm from Cleveland, so I've always loved sausage and red meat and all of that stuff, so now I find myself not eating any of that, no red meat, no sausage. It's basically a vegetarian diet with a little bit of fish. I drink quarts of carrot juice, quarts of cranberry juice, endless amounts of water and nothing else.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Water, Sausage, Littles

  Interview with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2013.

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• As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Peace, Passion, Long

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• No pills, not even aspirin, and certainly no supplements ever enter my mouth - everything I need comes from my fish and vegetarian diet, which incorporates many different kinds of fruit and vegetables every week.

  David H. Murdock

  Vegetables, Pills, Different

  "My Healthy, Weekly Shopping List" by David H. Murdock, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 21, 2011.

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• A diet that relies heavily on meat production results in higher emissions than a typical vegetarian diet. Different individuals will make different choices. However, the debate about climate change should not be dumbed down to a single slogan, such as 'give up meat to save the planet.

  Nicholas Stern

  Giving Up, Choices, Meat

  Go green, go vegan" by Chris Goodall, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2009.

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• I almost fainted. There was no family history. I had been eating a vegetarian diet and I exercised.

  Rue McClanahan

  Eating, Family History, Diets

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• I think a strict vegetarian diet acts as a good cleansing program for people who come from a diet heavy in animal foods and processed foods. But for some people, when it goes on too long it seems to backfire.

  Ann Louise Gittleman

  Animal, Thinking, Long

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• Eating a vegetarian diet can contribute more to saving ourselves and the planet than any other single effort.

  Sharon Gannon

  Effort, Saving, Eating

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• Hitler suffered acutely from meteorism; perhaps he did not suffer so acutely as those around him, since meteorism is uncontrolled farting, a condition exacerbated by Hitler's strictly vegetarian diet.

  A. N. Wilson

  Suffering, Diets, Conditions

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• Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the cause in principle. Besides agreeing with the aims of vegetarianism for aesthetic and moral reasons, it is my view that a vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.

  Albert Einstein

  Food, Vegetarianism, Views

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.453, Princeton University Press

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• Whenever I visit a market and see the chickens crowded together in tiny cages that give them no room to move around and spread their wings and the fish slowly drowning in the air, my heart goes out to them. People have to learn to think about animals in a different way, as sentient beings who love life and fear death. I urge everyone who can to adopt a compassionate vegetarian diet.

  Dalai Lama

  Moving, Heart, Love Life

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