Vegetarian & Vegan Quotes:
Certainly worth repeating!
"The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined."
Neal Barnard, M.D.
"'Test your servants for ten days; let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink. Then let our appearance and the appearance of the youths who eat the king's food be observed by you, and deal with your servants according to what you see.' So he listened to them in this matter, and tested them for ten days. At the end of ten days it was seen that they were better in appearance and fatter in flesh than all the youths who ate the king's food." The Bible, Daniel 1:12-15
"God said, 'Behold! I have given you every herb bearing seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed. To you it shall be for meat.'" The Bible, Genesis 1:29
"He [God] causes the grass to grow for the cattle, And vegetation for the labor of man, So that he may bring forth food from the earth." The Bible, Psalm 104:14
"It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak." The Bible, Romans 14:21
"To avoid causing terror to living beings, let the disciple refrain from eating meat." The Buddha
(circa 563-483 B.C.)
"In the next ten years, one of the things you're bound to hear is that animal protein is one of the most toxic nutrients of all that can be considered. Quite simply, the more you substitute plant foods for animal foods, the healthier you are likely to be. I now consider veganism to be the ideal diet. A vegan diet - particularly one that is low in fat - will substantially reduce disease risks. Plus, we've seen no disadvantages from veganism." T. Colin Campbell, PhD, nutritional biochemist,
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY and Project Director
on Nutrition, Health and Environment, 1983-1990
"A raw and living food diet is leaded with enzymes, crammed with vitamins and minerals, abundant in oxygen, complete with available proteins, and is especially high in fiber." Brian R. Clement, Hippocrates Health Program:
A Proven Guide To Healthful Living, Hippocrates Pub
"If human civilization is going to invade the waters of the earth, then let it be, first of all, to carry a message of respect - respect for all life." Jacques Cousteau
(1910-1997) Explorer
"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, Author, co-author, Fit for Life
"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." Albert Einstein
"My refusing to eat meat occasioned an 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
(1706-1790)
Statesman, inventor
"Other things being equal, I judge that a strict vegetarian will live ten years longer than a habitual meat eater, while suffering on the average, less than half so much from sickness." Horace Greeley (1811-1872), American newspaper
editor and founder of the New York Herald Tribune
"Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals' suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote." Paul Harvey, Radio newscaster and syndicated journalist
"There is no question that the combination of a vegan low-fat diet and daily vigorous exercise are keys to radiant good health. It is my vegan diet that powers me through triathlons and marathons and 50-60 races per year!" Ruth Heidrich, PhD, Ironman triathlete
"People are the only animals that drink the milk of another species. All other animals stop drinking milk altogether after weaning. It is unnatural for a dog to nurse from a giraffe; a child drinking the milk of a mother cow is just as strange. It is not surprising that problems ensue from this inherently unnatural act."
"The protein of animal muscle (steak, chicken, meat, fish fillets, etc.) is far more concentrated and acidic than the plant protein found in whole grains, legumes, and green vegetables. This concentrated, acidic protein load can leach calcium from the bones, contributing to osteoporosis." Michael A. Klaper, M.D., American author and lecturer,
Pregnancy, Children and the Vegan Diet
Vegan Nutrition: Pure and Simple
"Compassion is the foundation of everything positive, everything good. If you carry the power of compassion to the market place and the dinner table, you can make your life really count." Rue McClanahan
American Actress
"In the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, there was a recent series of letters and commentaries saying that people should probably get their omega-3 fats from vegetables and not from fish, because the omega-3 fish oils do seem to have a variety of negative effects, one of which is that they promote the production of free radicals. Free radicals can damage tissues and lead to cancer." Milton R. Mills, M.D., Physicians Committee
for Responsible Medicine
"Lobsters are fascinating. They have a long childhood and an awkward adolescence. They use complicated signals to explore and establish social relationships with others. Their communications are direct and sophisticated. They flirt. Their pregnancies last nine months. Some are right-handed, some left-handed. They've even been seen walking hand-in-hand. Some can live to be more than 150 years old, though few (1%) survive the world's most devastating predator - the species with the who lobsters share so many traits - the human being." Ingrid Newkirk, National Director of People for the
Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), excerpted
from Save the Animals: 101 Easy Things You Can Do
"Diabetes is not necessarily a one-way street. Early studies suggest that persons with diabetes can improve and, in some cases, even cure themselves of the disease by switching to an unrefined, vegan diet." Andrew Nicholson, M.D., Physicians Committee
for Responsible Medicine Good Medicine
Magazine, Winter 1997
"There's no reason to drink cow's milk at any time in your life. It was designed for calves, not humans, and we should all stop drinking it today." Dr. Frank Osaki, former Director of Pediatrics,
Johns Hopkins University
"The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies, they are the trees and the plants and the seeds." Plato (circa 428-347 B. C.),
Greek philosopher
"What's healthiest for each of us personally is also healthiest for the life support system of our precious, but wounded planet. A reduction in meat consumption is the most potent single act you can take to halt the destruction of our environment and preserve our natural resources." Jeremy Rifkin, President of the Foundation on
Economic Trends, and author, Beyond Beef: The
Rise and fall of the Cattle Culture, Dutton, New York
"It takes less water to produce a year's food for a pure vegetarian than to produce a month's food for a meat-eater." John Robbins, Diet for a New America
"Meat, which contains cholesterol and saturated fat, was never intended for human beings, who are natural herbivores." William C. Roberts, M.D. and Editor in Chief,
American Journal of Cardiology, vol. 66,
October 1, 1990
"I am conscious that meat eating is not in accordance with the finer feelings, and I abstain from it whenever I can." Albert Schweitzer, M.D.
(1875-1965)
Philosopher, missionary, &
Nobel Peace Prize Recipient
SIR ANDREW:
"I am a great eater of beef and I believe that does harm to my wit." SIR TOBY:
"No question." William Shakespeare,
Twelfth Night, Act I, Scene III
"The average age (longevity) of a meat-eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still at work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and am trying to die, but I simply cannot do it. A single beefsteak would finish me, but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism." George Bernard Shaw
(1856-1950)
Author and playwright
"There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of a vegetable diet and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly tried." Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), English poet
"People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times." Isaac Bashevis Singer
(1904-1991)
Laureate of Literature
Nobel Prize Recipient
"When I was 88 years old, I gave up meat entirely and switched to a plant-foods diet following a slight stroke. During the following months, I not only lost 50 pounds but also gained strength in my legs and picked up stamina. Now, at 93, I'm on the same plant-based diet, and I still don't eat any meat or dairy products. I either swim, walk or paddle a canoe daily and I feel the best I've felt since my heart problems began." Dr. Benjamin Spock, M.D. (1903-1998), the Famous
"Dr. Spock", pediatrician and author, excerpted from
Nutritional Advocate, 1996
"1.5 million deaths per year in the U.S. are from diseases associated with diets high in saturated fats and cholesterol. The major dietary sources of fat in the American diet are meat, poultry, fish, dairy products and fats and oils. Dietary cholesterol is found only in foods of animal origin. Reduce consumption of saturated fat and cholesterol. Increase consumption of whole grain foods and cereal products, vegetables and fruits." Surgeon General's Report on Nutrition and Health, 1988
"If a man earnestly seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food." "As long as there are slaughter houses, there will be battle fields." Count Leo Tolstoy
(1828-1910)
Novelist and philosopher
"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than blacks were made for whites, or women for men." Alice Walker, American author, The Color Purple
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