Tuesday November 18, 2008, 8:11 pm
Vegetarian Quotes

The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. If beef is your idea of "real food for real people" you'd better live real close to a real good hospital.
-- Neal Barnard, M.D.

If you could see or feel the suffering you wouldn't think twice. Give back life. Don't eat meat.
-- Kim Basinger


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.
-- Dr.Walden Bello

I have been a vegetarian for about 10 years. And it really was due to the reading that I did. And they explain so that you understand why it's important for the planet's survival along with compassion for animals. It certainly made it much easier for me. I lost weight really fast. My mother died from cancer so this is all very personal to me. And I just would like the planet to be a better place. And I think you'll find a vegetarian diet to be really incredible these days.
-- Linda Blair

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

If any kid ever realized what was involved in factory farming they would never touch meat again.I was so moved by the intelligence,sense of fun and personalities of the animals I worked with on Babe that by the end of the film I was a vegetarian.
-- James Cromwell

We don't need to eat anyone who would run, swim, or fly away if he could.
~James Cromwell

Truely man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds theirs. We live by the death of others: we are burial places! I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look on the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.
~Leonardo da Vinci

"I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men." -- Leonardo da Vinci
Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them, the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.
-- John Denver
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

About 2,000 pounds of grains must be supplied to livestock in order to produce enough meat and other livestock products to support a person for a year, whereas 400 pounds of grain eaten directly will support a person for a year. Thus, a given quantity of grain eaten directly will feed 5 times as many people as it will if it is eaten indirectly by humans in the form of livestock products....
-- M.E. Ensminger, PH.D.
My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chided for my singularity, but, with this lighter repast, I made the greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension.
-- Ben Franklin

Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.
-- Ben Franklin
I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live. I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world - if we are superior to it.
-- Mohandas Gandhi

Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it's apt to give a person wind and self-righteousness.
~Robert Hutchinson

A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food.
-- John Harvey Kellogg, M.D.

When we eat vegetarian foods, we needn't worry about what kind of disease our food died from; this makes a joyful meal!
-- John Harvey Kellogg, M.D.

We all love animals. Why do we call some "pets" and others "dinner?"
~ k.d. lang
Our food system takes abundant grain,which people can't afford,and shrinks it into meat,which better-off people will pay for.
-- Frances Moore Lappe

I understand, of course, that grain-fed meat is not the cause of the world hunger problem-and eating some of it doesn't directly take food out of the mouths of starving people-but it is, to me, a symbol and a symptom of the basic irrationality of a food system that's divorced from human needs. Therefore, using less meat can be an important way to take responsibility. Making conscious choices about what we eat, based on what the earth can sustain and what our bodies need, can help remind us that our whole society must begin to balance sustainable production with human need.
-- Frances Moore Lappe
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
-- Paul and Linda McCartney

We stopped eating meat many years ago. During the course of a Sunday lunch we happened to look out of the kitchen window at our young lambs playing happily in the fields. Glancing down at our plates, we suddenly realised we were eating the leg of an animal who had until recently been playing in a field herself. We looked at each other and said: "Wait a minute, we love these sheep-they're such gentle creatures. So why are we eating them?" It was the last time we ever did.
-- Paul and Linda McCartney

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian. We feel better about ourselves and better about the animals, knowing we're not contributing to their pain.
-- Paul and Linda McCartney

Intellectually, human beings and animals may be different, but it's pretty obvious that animals have a rich emotional life and that they feel joy and pain. It's easy to forget the connection between a hamburger and the cow it came from. But I forced myself to acknowledge the fact that every time I ate a hamburger, a cow had ceased to breathe and moo and walk around.
-- Moby


"Men dig their graves with their own teeth and die by those fated instruments more than the weapons of their enemies. "
-- Thomas Moffett
The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable. --
Thomas More

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

When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard.
-- River Phoniex

But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the sun and light and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy."
-- Plutarch

"For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love."
-- Pythagoras

As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love."
-- Pythagoras

Animals are my friends-and I don't eat my friends.
-- George Bernard Shaw


"While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?"
-- George Bernard Shaw

It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation, that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion; and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley

By all that is sacred in our hope for the human race, I conjure those who love happiness and truth to give a fair trial to the vegetable system!
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Once people spend time with farm animals in a loving way ... a pig or cow or a little chicken or a turkey, they might find they relate with them the same way they relate with dogs and cats. People don't really think of them that way because they're on the plate. Why should they be food when other animals are pets? I would never eat my doggies.
-- Alicia Silverstone

When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice. Man prays for mercy, but is unwilling to extend it to others. Why the should man expect mercy from God? It is unfair to expect something that you are not willing to give.
-- Isaac B. Singer

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
~Robert Louis Stevenson

I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
-- Henry David Thoreau

No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.
-- Henry David Thoreau


Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere.
-- Leo Tolstoy

If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food, because ...its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling -- killing.
-- Leo Tolstoy

A human can be healthy without killing animals for food. Therefore if he eats meat he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
-- Leo Tolstoy

"Thou shalt not kill" does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings; and this Commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai.
-- Leo Tolstoy

I think there's something odd about eating another living anything.
-- Shania Twain
"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

I think there will come a time, and this is down the road a great many years, when civilized people will look back in horror on our generation and the ones that have preceded it: the idea that we should eat other living things running around on four legs, that we should raise them just for the purpose of killing them! The people of the future will say, meat-eaters in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.
-- Dennis Weaver

I became a vegetarian in 1958 and it was very difficult in those days to really maintain that because there weren't many options. But, now, it's a growing trend because the economics are there. See, there's simply enough people demanding it that it's profitable to supply vegetarians with those products.
-- Dennis Weaver

In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be, but now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses. And it is impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig.I can still remember as a boy the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughterhouse.
-- H G Wells - A Modern Utopia

Tuesday November 18, 2008, 8:18 pm
hi noted thanks marieemma,es there is far to many people and there poor children hungry in our own countrys and around the world and all these people should and need help very badly govermnts the rich and even the middle class have to try and help these people with a lot more money,or even food to homeless people its such a very big problem please help the hungry they need it ad.

Tuesday November 18, 2008, 8:30 pm
Thanks. Noted.

Tuesday November 18, 2008, 8:41 pm
Thank you Marieemma~ Noted

Wednesday November 19, 2008, 12:28 am
NOTED THANK-YOU

Wednesday November 19, 2008, 3:22 am
Noted with thanks Marieemma. Thanks for sending to me Charles.

Wednesday November 19, 2008, 5:03 am
"As long as there is one single hungry child on this Planet - we cannot rest"
-Ben Oscarsito

Wednesday November 19, 2008, 5:12 am
There is plenty of food on this Mother Earth, there is no reason for any child, woman, man or animal to go hungry. It is survival, and I will not allow any child especially to go without food. Even if I have to send some overseas to feed a child in another country, I will do that. I am associated with many organizations that do this.

I feed many of the children in my own neighberhood, here in the good ole US...it's sad.

TY Charles hon for the forward, and many thanks to Marieemma for this most essential of articles & pointing out all of the needs there are in our world. We must all be aware of the food situation and hunger problems. I love what Ben said, he sums it up quite well, Ty all for caring so much. NO CHILD SHOULD GO HUNGRY!!!
Really good article Marieemma my friend.

Blessings to us all,
FreeSpiritRunning...xxxooo

Wednesday November 19, 2008, 6:41 am
Our Mother the earth can support her own children...

if only they all took their fair share.

But human beings are greedy and want to divert the resources to those that need them least taking from the mouths that need it most.

Something has spoiled this paradise
and that something could be us.

Wednesday November 19, 2008, 8:19 am
Marieemma thank you so much for this! The quotes are simply beautiful and with so much meaning! There is absolutely no reason in the world why anyone should go hungry! No reason what so ever! David is right! It could be us! Let's hope and pray that we can fix this most urgent problem we have helped to create! Wonderful article my dear friend! Noted!
Go Vegan!!!

Wednesday November 19, 2008, 10:33 am
Our country offers such great opportunities for us all. Unfortunately, too many hard-working citizens go day to day without enough food to eat.
-- Dennis Franz


There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
-- Indira Gandhi

A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of our social system is worthless.
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

"There is enough for everybody's need, but not for everybody's greed." -- Mohandas K. Gandhi


The full extent of the problem of hunger is not obvious to most of us. We see the homeless, but there are a great number of working poor, struggling to survive, who don't have enough money to put adequate food on the table. We must find a solution to this ever-increasing problem — and quickly.
-- Scott Glenn

Wednesday November 19, 2008, 7:37 pm
noted thanks marieemma