quotations about vegetarianism
I refuse to eat animals because I cannot nourish myself by the sufferings and by the death of other creatures.
EDGAR KUPFER-KOBERWITZ
Animals, My Brethren
Vegetarians are preyed upon by those that are not.
RICHARD FORTEY
Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth
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
Kitchen Confidential
Vegetables contain more nutriment than an equal amount of dead flesh. This will sound a surprising and incredible statement to many people, because they have been brought up to believe that they cannot exist unless they defile themselves with flesh, and this delusion is so widely spread that it is difficult to awaken the average man from it.
C. W. LEADBEATER
Vegetarianism and Occultism
Those who eat flesh are but eating grains and vegetables at second hand; for the animal receives from these things the nutrition that produces growth. The life that was in the grains and the vegetables passes into the eater. We receive it by eating the flesh of the animal. How much better to get it direct by eating the food that God provided for our use!
ELLEN WHITE
Health and Happiness
Some people think the plant-based, whole-foods diet is extreme. Half a million people a year will have their chests opened up and a vein taken from their leg and sewn onto their coronary artery. Some people would call that extreme.
CALDWELL ESSELSTYN
Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease
From a purely outsider's point of view, vegetarians are a confusing lot. I have vegetarian friends who eat fish. I have vegetarian friends who eschew beef bouillon but who eat chicken. I have vegetarian friends (not many) who become indignant when it becomes clear I do not appreciate the purity of their diet: they do not drink milk, eat cheese, eggs or bird's nests, and only wear the hides of freshly slaughtered polyesters.
CHERYL PECK
Fat Girls and Lawn Chairs
Anyone who lives in the fantasy world that vegetarianism is taking over needs to give their head a shake, meat lovers are ever increasing their consumption. U.S. Beef Production is projected to be 26.564 billion pounds in 2017, up 2.8 billion pounds from 2015.
JIM LONG
"Pork Commentary: US -- No Shortage of Meat Protein", The Pig Site, April 25, 2017
Sooner or later, we'll all be on the menu.
ROD SERLING
"To Serve Man", The Twilight Zone
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
"Fate", Essays and Lectures
We were all brainwashed to believe that the only source of protein was meat and cheese.
SUZANNE HAVALA
101 Reasons why I'm a Vegetarian
The vegetarian is the only living creature who belongs to the vegetable kingdom.
EVEN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to be eating death. There is a kind of gestalt-shift between the two positions which makes it hard to change, and hard to raise questions on the matter at all without becoming embattled.
MARY MIDGLEY
Animals and Why They Matter
If we each had to butcher our own meat, there would be a great increase in the number of vegetarians.
ERNEST HOWARD CROSBY
Tolstoy and His Message
All normal people love meat. If I went to a barbecue and there was no meat, I'd say, "Yo Goober! Where's the meat?" I'm trying to impress people here, Lisa. You don't win friends with salad.
HOMER SIMPSON
The Simpsons
Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter-faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn. To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demiglace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN
Kitchen Confidential
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
SIR ROBERT HUTCHISON
attributed, Wordsworth Book of Humorous Quotations
It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as make up the state of our treats; as it is a prodigal one to spend more in sauce than in meat.
WILLIAM PENN
Some Fruits of Solitude
If we're not supposed to eat animals ... how come they're made out of meat?
ANONYMOUS
You're thinking I'm one of those wise-ass California vegetarians who is going to tell you that eating a few strips of bacon is bad for your health. I'm not. I say its a free country and you should be able to kill yourself at any rate you choose, as long as your cold dead body is not blocking my driveway.
SCOTT ADAMS
Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!