Vegetarian Quotes - Page 7

• Part of my reason for being vegetarian was because it practices respect and love for life all through the day, so three times a day, you make a decision to eat things that have not been killed.

  Natalie Portman

  Love Life, Practice, Decision

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• To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Vegetarianism, Steps

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• I don't do the gym and I don't diet. I'm vegetarian but I don't diet.

  Pamela Anderson

  Gym, Diets

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• You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car.

  Harvey Diamond

  Funny, Witty, Baby

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• The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of Great Kindness.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Kindness, Compassion

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• I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings.

  Cesar Chavez

  Inspiring, Dog, Food

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• The moral duty of man consists of imitating the moral goodness and beneficence of God, manifested in the creation towards all his creatures. Everything of persecution and revenge between man and man, and everything of cruelty to animals is a violation of moral duty

  Thomas Paine

  Revenge, Animal, Men

  Thomas Paine (2015). “The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies”, p.246, Ravenio Books

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• Science that fails to embrace all living beings is far more dangerous than any virus!

  Steve Simmons

  Viruses, Vegan, Failing

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• The American fast food diet and the meat eating habits of the wealthy around the world support a world food system that diverts food resources from the hungry. A diet higher in whole grains and legumes and lower in beef and other meat is not just healthier for ourselves but also contributes to changing the world system that feeds some people and leaves others hungry.

  Walden Bello

  Vegetarianism, Meat Eating, People

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• Animals are being exploited in such an unbelievable way; it's not acceptable. PETA is trying to get your attention, and they're successful at it. ... If you talk to people who grew up on a farm, they'll tell you that they had an experience where they were taking care of a cow, and one day their parents took it away and killed it. It's a torturous experience for them, and that's when they became hard. People are taught to be grown-up or whatever, and that's dumb. That bond they had with that cow or chicken was real.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Real, Successful, Animal

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• I don't eat meat, fish, or eggs. I was never a big meat-eater, but I've got more energy now.

  Shania Twain

  Eggs, Energy, Meat

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• My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.

  Justin Sane

  War, Rights, Parent

  "Anti-Flag to incite May Day masses" by Mark Brown, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2006.

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• If one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be cruelty, but if a lot of people are unkind to animals (especially in the name of profit) the cruelty is condoned and will be defended by otherwise intelligent people.

  Ruth Harrison

  Animal, Intelligent, Names

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• GE is the biggest polluter of the Hudson.. years ago they killed all the fish dumping millions of lbs. of pcb's into our waterways. Now let's make them pay for the cleanup.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Years, Pay, Vegan

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• I became a vegetarian after I became aware of factory farming and slaughterhouses and the torture and inhumane handling of all these animals.

  Kevin Nealon

  Animal, Farming, Factories

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• I'm a vegetarian. I don't eat animals, so I won't wear them.

  Leona Lewis

  Animal

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• In fact, we are designed anatomically to be vegetarians.

  Sharon Gannon

  Facts

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

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• I am conscious that meat eatingis not in accordance with the finer feelings,and I abstain from it whenever I can.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Feelings, Meat, Conscious

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• The sixteen hundred dairies in California’s Central Valley alone produce more waste than a city of twenty-one million people-that’s more than the populations of London, New York, and Chicago combined.

  Gene Baur

  New York, Cities, California

  Gene Baur (2008). “Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• Awareness is bad for the meat business. Conscience is bad for the meat business. Sensitivity to life is bad for the meat business. DENIAL, however, the meat business finds indispensable.

  John Robbins

  Vegetarianism, Meat, Denial

  John Robbins (2011). “Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness, and the Future of Life on Earth”, p.92, H J Kramer

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• Some say vegetarianism is an alternative diet, but it is the original diet, the plan designed by God.

  James Marcus

  Vegetarianism, Alternatives, Vegetarian Health

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• Love the animals. God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Don't trouble it, don't harass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Joy

  FYODOR MIKHAILOVICH DOSTOEVSKY (1952). “GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD”

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• There's so many vegetarian foods now that are available at the market . The same with drive-throughs. Now, a lot of them serve veggie burgers just like the restaurants are doing. So, it's really very easy.

  Kevin Nealon

  Vegetarianism, Vegan Food, Burgers

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• My dream is that people will come to view eating an animal as cannibalism.

  Henry Spira

  Dream, Animal, Vegetarianism

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• I take vitamins daily, but just the bare essentials not what you'd call supplements. I try to stick to a vegan diet heavy on fruit, vegetables, tofu, and other soy products.

  Clint Eastwood

  Vegetables, Trying, Soy

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