Vegetarian Quotes - Page 3

• My refusing to eat meat occasioned inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Light, Progress, Meat

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• When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Dog, Pain, Animal

  "Washingtonian" Magazine, August 1, 1986.

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• Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox.

  I. L. Peretz

  People, Refined

  "Taanis Gedanken". Alle Verk, xii. 77, 1896.

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• Raising crops to feed animals for human consumption requires a lot of land. It takes eight or nine cows a year to feed one average meat eater; each cow eats one acre of green plants, soybeans and corn per year; so it takes eight or nine acres of plants a year to feed one meat eater, compared with only half an acre to feed one vegetarian.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Eight, Average

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• I know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten, and who never has a chance to be a real being, is unhealthy. It's like...you're just eating misery. You're eating a bitter life.

  Alice Walker

  Real, Vegetarianism, Soul

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• I'm a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people's decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they're aware, that they're living a conscious lifestyle.

  Abbie Cornish

  Animal, Voice, Rights

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• The more animal products you remove from your diet, the better you feel. The difference between vegetarian and vegan is huge. I feel so much better as a vegan.

  Pamela Anderson

  Animal, Differences, Vegan

  "Pamela Anderson Loves Miley, Has No Opinion on the "Car-Crashians"". Interview with Corinn Jackson, www.elle.com. December 14, 2015.

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• The meat industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars lying to the public about their product. But no amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat. The facts are absolutely clear: Eating meat is bad for human health, catastrophic for the environment, and a living nightmare for animals

  Chrissie Hynde

  Lying, Food, Health

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• I am a very strict vegetarian. ...I just really, really love animals, and I act on my values.

  Natalie Portman

  Animal, Strict, Values

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• All breathing beings are spiritual; this includes everyone who breathes, whether they are animals or humans, carnivores or vegetarians.

  Sharon Gannon

  Spiritual, Animal, Breathing

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love, Flesh Eating, Murder

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• I have lived temperately, eating little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principal diet.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Animal, Vegetarian Diet, Vegetarianism

  B. L. Rayner, Thomas Jefferson (1834). “Life of Thomas Jefferson: with selections from the most valuable portions of his voluminious and unrivalled private correspondence : with portrait”, p.394

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• I am a stronger follower of Veganism by principle, not just because of moral and aesthetic reasons. I truly believe in a Vegetarian lifestyle and I have faith and hopes in change in human destiny, thanks to the physical effects and benefits of a healthier diet and its influence on the character of the people. It will bring about some benefit and improvement to human society.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Character, Destiny

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• If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

  Francis of Assisi

  Religious, Peace, Men

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• I am vegetarian, so I don’t have clothes, shoes or bags made from leather or suede or any animal products. Shoes are hard to find. These are fake Uggs. And I’ve got a pair of vintage boots, which are PVC.

  Leona Lewis

  Animal, Vintage, Shoes

  Press call, October 2007.

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• I am vegetarian, though, and so is my family.

  Joely Fisher

  My Family

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There's no question that largely vegetarian diets are as healthy as you can get. The evidence is so strong and overwhelming and produced over such a long period of time that it's no longer debatable.

  Marion Nestle

  Strong, Vegetarian Diet, Long

  Nutrition Action Healthletter, October 1996.

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• Factory farming is terrible for the environment—not to mention that it's gross. The best thing you can do, if you think about it, is to become a vegetarian and just spread the word. The world would change for the better for animals, humans, and the planet if everyone took that step.

  Christofer Drew

  Thinking, Animal, World

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• My reason for becoming a vegetarian was simple: I loved (and love) animals

  Moby

  Animal, Simple, And Love

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• The really great thing about my shop is that there's not one dead animal in it. ... Manolo's got a load of fabric shoes as well! We use plastic, fabric, rubber- anything but leather. I almost feel like I've been put here to show everyone that it's unnecessary.

  Stella McCartney

  Animal, Shoes, Rubber

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• The easiest beneficence is a smile. The simplest release is to have a vegetarian meal.

  Gautama Buddha

  Kindness, Commitment, Meals

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• Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian.

  Amber Tamblyn

  Book, Fast Food Nation, Made

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• It almost seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Vegetarianism, Vegan

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.454, Princeton University Press

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• I am proud to be a vegetarian and I am against those who eat meat. Go green to be fit, that's the best way for me at least.

  Kareena Kapoor

  Meat, Green, Proud

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• Every time we sit down to eat, we make a choice. Please choose vegetarianism. Do it for animals. Do it for the environment and do it for your health.

  Alec Baldwin

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Choices

  "Meet Your Meat". Documentary Film, May 01, 2002.

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