Vegetarian Quotes - Page 23

• I'd be vegetarian if bacon grew on trees

  Matt Groening

  Tree, Grew, Ifs

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• Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Cages, Vegan, Used

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• Being vegan is easy. Are there social pressures that encourage you to continue to eat, wear, and use animal products? Of course there are. But in a patriarchal, racist, homophobic, and ableist society, there are social pressures to participate and engage in sexism, racism, homophobia, and ableism. At some point, you have to decide who you are and what matters morally to you. And once you decide that you regard victimizing vulnerable nonhumans is not morally acceptable, it is easy to go and stay vegan

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, What Matters, Racism

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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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• He took a bite, swallowed. "God. If asparagus tasted like that all the time, I'd be vegetarian, too." Some people in a lacquered wooden boat approached us on the canal below. One of them, a woman with curly blond hair, maybe thirty, drank from a beer then raised her glass towards us and shouted something. "We don't speak Dutch," Gus shouted back. One of the others shouted a translation: "The beautiful couple is beautiful.

  John Green

  Beautiful, Couple, Beer

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• With my time in the limelight, I regret that I didnt use it more to push vegetarianism. I support vegetarian options in the school lunch program.

  Bernhard Goetz

  Regret, School, Vegetarianism

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• The person who kills for fun is announcing that, could he get away with it, he'd kill you for fun. Your...life may be of no consequence to anyone else but is invaluable to you because it's the only one you've got. Exactly the same is true of each individual deer, hare, rabbit, fox, fish, pheasant and butterfly. Humans should enjoy their own lives, not taking others'.

  Brigid Brophy

  Fun, Butterfly, May

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• To give a child animal products is a form of child abuse.

  Neal Barnard

  Children, Animal, Giving

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

  Samantha Eggar

  Animal, Drs, Vegan

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• My wife Kimora once told me while we were watching "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" that it's a vegetarian movie because the way that the woman was screaming, "Aaaahhh," and trying to run away is how every animal you eat reacted at the slaughterhouse.

  Russell Simmons

  Running, Animal, Texas

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• Some people are still going to want to eat meat. We do agree though that vegetarianism is a healthier diet.

  Dave Stroud

  Vegetarianism, People, Meat

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• When it came down to it, he just wasn't that engaged. You had to be engaged to be a vegetarian; you had to be engaged to sing "Both Sides Now" with your eyes closed; when it came down to it, you had to be engaged to be a mother.

  Nick Hornby

  Mother, Eye, Sides

  Nick Hornby (1999). “About a Boy”, p.86, Penguin

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• Everything revolves around the fork.

  Howard Lyman

  Forks

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• Aw, no. You’re taking us to that vegetarian place, aren’t you? It’s a coffee place. You can’t just automatically classify anything that isn’t a steak house as vegetarian. Yes, I can. This is America. You said Americans assert their own opinions as if they were facts and dismiss inconvenient facts as mere opinions.

  Kevin Hearne

  Coffee, Yes I Can, Steak House

  Kevin Hearne (2012). “The Iron Druid Chronicles Starter Pack 3-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered”, p.333, Del Rey

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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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• 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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• To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Enemy, Meat, Pork

  Anthony Bourdain (2011). “Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw”, p.65, A&C Black

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• I wouldn't touch a hot dog unless you put a condom on it! You realize that the job of a hot dog is to use parts of the animal that the Chinese can't figure out how to make into a belt?

  Bill Maher

  Dog, Jobs, Animal

  "Bill Maher: I'm Swiss", 2005.

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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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• 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 woman I am currently crazy about was a vegetarian for a year until I started dating her. As is the case with most vegetarians, she had never eaten properly prepared meat, only commercially packaged or otherwise abused flesh.

  Steve Albini

  Crazy, Years, Dating

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• There's an interconnectivity between what's in the consciousness of cat and what's in the consciousness of us.

  Russell Brand

  Cat, Consciousness

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• Our treatment of animals, in every department, is deeply and systematically immoral. Becoming a vegetarian is only the most minimal ethical response to the magnitude of the evil.

  Colin McGinn

  Animal, Evil, Becoming

  Colin McGinn (1997). “Minds and Bodies: Philosophers and Their Ideas”, p.207, Oxford University Press

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• As soon as I realized that I didn't need meat to survive or to be in good health, I began to see how forlorn it all is. If only we had a different mentality about the drama of the cowboy and the range and all the rest of it. It's a very romantic notion, an entrenched part of American culture, but I've seen, for example, pigs waiting to be slaughtered, and their hysteria and panic was something I shall never forget.

  Cloris Leachman

  Drama, Cowboy, Pigs

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• The parlour cars and Pullmans are packed also with scented assassins, salad-eaters who murder on milk.

  W. H. Auden

  Car, Assassins, Salad

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