Veg Quotes
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The intent is not
arrogance but ending the screams of the slaughterhouse.
May the file be a canoe slipping through the water quietly,
not a noisy boat creating foam wake.
HARM NO BEING
Genesis l:29 Behold I have given you herbyielding seed. To you it shall
be for meat. http://www.all-creatures.org
Quran: There is no beast on earth nor bird which flieth..but the same
is a people like unto you. All God's creatures are God's family.
http://sss.vn.ua/sb_mm.htm
Matthew 21: 12 And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all
them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of
the
money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves
Buddha: To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to
nirvana. http://www.plumvillage.org
Bhagavad Gita: One is dearest to God who has no enemies among the
living beings, who is nonviolent to all creatures. (Sanskrit word
ahimsa means nonharm to all life)
Isaiah: He that slayeth an ox is as he that killeth a human. (for 40 or
50 quotes from the Bible go to the Spirit file no. 8)
http://www.christianveg.com http://www.jesusveg.com
Mahavira, founder of the Jain religion: May all that have life be
delivered from suffering.
Siuh, Malaysian woman lab technician: If I follow Kwon Yin (Chinese
Divine Mother Deity of Mercy) I guess I should become vegetarian.
Upton Sinclair in The Jungle (written after his investigation of Hormel
in Austin Minnesota): The shriek was followed by another, louder and
yet more agonizing..for once started upon that journey, the hog never
came back. One by one the men hooked up the hogs and slit their
throats. There was a line of hogs with squeals and lifeblood ebbing
away.. until at last each vanished into a huge vat of boiling water
(some still alive). The hogs were so innocent. They came so very
trustingly. They were so very human in their protests. They had done
nothing to deserve it.
Mark Braunstein: When one eats cow's tongue, who is tasting whom? (He
is author of "Radical Vegetarianism")
Oprah Winfrey, being sued by Amarillo cattle ranchers for saying: "I'm
stopped. I'll never eat another burger". (paraphrased)
Harriet Beecher Stowe: We should remember in our dealings with animals
that they are a sacred trust to us from our heavenly Father. They are
dumb and cannot speak for themselves.
Ralph Nader on ABC re the 13 states with veggie libel laws (such as
Texas Cattlemen's Beef Assn tried unsuccessfully twice to use against
Oprah): These laws are designed to chill free speech.
http://www.citizenworks.org
http://groups.msn.com/madchicken/3.msnw
Howard Lyman, former cattle rancher: (paraphrased from his appearances
on more than l show) 100,000 cows in the U.S. are alive at night and
dead in the morning. These cows on the ground are ground into feed,
making their fellows not only carnivores but cannibals. Europe after
Mad Cows' Disease has banned this practice. The U.S has not yet.
http://www.madcowboy.com
Leonardo Da Vinci: One day the world will look upon research upon
animals as it now looks upon research on human beings.
http://spot.acorn.net/fruitarian (DaVinci a fruitarian)
Steven Spielberg screenwriter Koepp: Humans are the only hunters who
kill when not hungry.
Lester Brown World Watch Inst. annual State of the World: Since 1950
demand for lumber (trees) has doubled. Fossil fuel consumption has
quadrupled. China's desire for grain-fed beef.. (adds even more
pressure)
Jan Yager: Once I was fishing and caught the hook in the fish's eye.
That was the last time I ate a killed creature (paraphrased).
http://www.janyager.com
Morton Downey: Oprah has power because Oprah is believable. People do
not believe the beef industry. Shouldn't we be concerned about the
first amendment rather than protecting powerful agribusiness?
Mayor Koch, now Judge Koch: Tree killing is arborcide.
Mrs. Greenthumb: Plant in the city.
If China were to double its egg production the grain of 15 developing
nations would be required
Jeremy Rifkin of Beyond Beef: paraphrased: The world's environment can
no longer handle beef.
KCBS helicopter pilot: The physical fitness man (paid by the meat
lobby) would supposedly swim miles with a boat rope in his teeth.. jump
out of the water in San Francisco and say "I owe it all to red meat".
But I saw that he did not put the rope in his mouth until he was in
sight of the shore.
John Denver: on the Larry King Show (paraphrased): Many things made me
become a vegetarian, among them. the higher food yield as a solution to
world hunger.
Jim R: Hunters are to the arms industry what smokers are to the tobacco
industry. Smokers get a nicotine rush. Hunters get an adrenalin rush
from killing a living being. (This does not include those hunters who
kill only to feed their families or themselves.)
Ali MacGraw: Cruelty to animals can become violence to humans. (HSUS
psa)
Maynard Clark (in...@vegetarian.org): Irradiation does not protect
consumers from contaminated meat. It kills only selected pathogens.
..It does nothing to hardy pathogens such as the hepatitis virus or to
those inside a large slab of meat or to those added during subsequent
processing.
Fox News Jan 15th Kathy Wolff: A Univ of NC study linked hot dogs to
childhood leukemia.
Buddhist phrenologist in an unsolicited reading of writer: Your short
ear lobes indicate many lives as a carnivore.
Catherine Crier, former Texas prosecutor quoting Robin Williams:
Hitchcock said he viewed actors as cattle.. but some were free range.
Pat Robertson who has quoted Isaiah 65 on 700 Club: Mercy trumps
justice. (CBN no longer takes animal flesh ads)
Dennis Weaver: 40 years ago on the set of Gunsmoke I read the book The
Holy Science. Since then I have not eaten meat.
Semantha Eggar: paraphrased: Dr. Dolittle is a reluctant but dedicated
vegetarian. Being around all the animals in the film made me one too.
Governor Jerry Brown of California, son of a former governor of
California: Check out my web site, wtp.org, to see what fast food did
to 2 people in England. (C Span: Dec 22nd) (or check
http://www.McSpotlight.com)
Cleveland Amory on NPR Dec 4th: The National Park Service shot a mule
in the face. He survived but had trouble swallowing and often food came
out of his nose.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet re zoo animals: Those who are used to
a cage will weep for a cage.
Prince Philip to McDonald's of Canada: So you are the people tearing
down the Brazilian rainforest and breeding cattle. (according to a
letter by the head of McKey's, McDonald's beef suppliers, about a 1983
cocktail party which the Prince attended)
Mrs. Booth and General Bramwell Booth of the Salvation Army (daughter
in law and son of the founder of the SA): The awful cruelty and terror
to which tens of thousands of animals killed for human food are
subjected in traveling long distances by ship and rail and road to the
slaughterhouses of the world.. God disapproves of all cruelty.. whether
to man or beast. The occupation of slaughtering animals is brutalising
to those who are required to do the work.... I believe this matter is
well worthy of the serious consideration of Christian leaders.
Beastmaster to cobra: I mean you no harm.
Sun Bear and Jaya Bear: All creation has the same right to life.
Lesley Stahl of CBS: Charlie didn't want to give up meat and smoking.
Now he's gone. (re the much missed Charles Kuralt)
Pat Leigh: I would not want to get to know a pig very well if I
intended to eat him.
Joni Mitchell: They pave paradise and put in a parking lot.
Dan Ryan, Youngstown talk show host: Why not just put sterilization
hormones in the deer food rather than killing them?
The following passed on by Aaron Sarghi and his mother: George Carlin:
If a lobster didn't look like a scifi monster, people would be less
able to drop him alive into boiling water.
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.
Diane Rehm, First Lady of Broadcasting: The USDA recommendation of 2
servings of meat per day seems like too much.
Shakespeare in "Twelfth Night": He is a heavy eater of beef. Methinks
it doth harm to his wit.
Benjamin Franklin: The eagle does not make his living honestly. It
would be better to have something else as the national symbol.
Jan 26, 1874 letter Joan Baez singing Dona Dona: On a wagon bound for
market lay a cow with 2 mournful eyes... lay a cow with 2 mournful
eyes. (If one passes slaughterhouse trucks on Rt 80 bound for Manhattan
or the slaughterhouses of S Phily, in winter, with the freezing wind
from mountain passes ripping through the slats, one sees their noses
pressed to the bars, and their sad and frightened eyes.)
E Thomas re Thich Nhat Hanh: Harm no person, animal, plant or mineral.
James Coburn's friends: He is a Buddhist and will not harm even a fly.
Shik Po Chih: Whenever we cause suffering or death to any other being,
we cause suffering to the Great Life Force.
Julia Child: (Nov 27, 1997) Today I am the vegetable walla and have
brought potatoes. (Craig Claiborne brought pumpkin soup).
Phil Donahue (whose wife Marlo Thomas is a vegetarian) to a vegetarian
guest, a coffee drinker nervous because on tv, who still had a 64 beats
per minute heart beat to his 76: "Will you remember me when I'm gone?"
Jack Kemp: joking with Jewish supporters at the New Orleans 1988
convention: I played football.. my football was kosher.. no pigskin.
SS: Sometimes children's cries in the library disturb concentration.
This one's pierced the heart... it was so full of powerlessness,
injustice, pain and confinement.
H.G. Wells (from Utopia): In all the round world there is no meat.
There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of
slaughterhouses.
Diana, Princess of Wales: I decline to go fox hunting (nor did she want
her sons William and Harry to be involved in hunting).
Albert Einstein.. took a tiny bite of meat once a year on a Jewish
holiday to mollify his wife.
Re the Roshi: (If he were a Buddhist who believed he'd eaten thousands
of mammals in past lives.. none of that has import. Only today. Only
now)
A&E documentary of the Odessa navy mutiny which was a factor in the
Russian revolution: Sailors refusing to eat meat filled with maggots
were threatened with the firing squad. This sparked the mutiny.
Dick Gregory: Martin Luther King taught us all nonviolence. I was told
to extend nonviolence to the mother and her calf.
Syndee Brinkman: I went snorkeling and noticed how gently the fish
welcomed us into their world.. as compared to the violence with which
we welcomed them into ours. I became a vegetarian.
http://www.dickgregory.com
Robert F. Kennedy Jr: 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. (NPR Oct 22 97)
http://www.keepers.org
Jane Snow, food editor of the Beacon Journal: Items containing raw or
uncooked egg should be avoided so as not to contact a certain strain of
salmonella (It used to be thought that only broken eggs could transmit
salmonella ... now it is known that the mother passes salmonella
through the egg.) (There is more incidence of food poisoning from eggs
than from meat, fish, or milk.)
Walt Disney: (paraphrased) When I was poor living in a garage in Kansas
I began to draw the mice who scampered over my desk. That is how Mickey
and Minnie were born. (Walt would not like animals advertised on his
network as hamburgers)
Bill Hall, WNIR Radio: Meat has nitrosamines (carcinogenic) (formed by
sodium nitrate food agents interating with animal amino acids in the
stomach) (Sat. Aug 30 97)
Mary Lu Henner, herself a vegetarian because of Danny DeVito's example,
star of Taxi, asked by Larry King.. "Is that true... that Danny DeVito
won't harm cockroaches on the set of Taxi?" replied "No Larry and he
doesn't eat them either".
Buddha: May all that have life be delivered from suffering.
http://www.plumvillage.org
Winston Churchill: Please put the ladybug outside without harming her.
(to his butler)
(Churchill was responsible for bombing to death 9000 Iraqis
in 1920 and for burning and bombing to death
hundreds of thousands of civilians in German cities in WW2)
Oscar Wilde about foxhunting: The unspeakable in full pursuit of the
inedible.
Mayor White of Cleveland: I have no intention of eating a fish from the
East River. They're not safe to eat.
A Society of Three Legged Animals: for those who love meat but don't
want to kill.
Wayne Dyer per John J Price: God brings millions of flowers to bloom
without force.
Suzanne Hamlin, food writer for the New York Times: Leftover eggs are a
potential cause of food poisoning.
Alex Hershaft, concentration camp survivor and coordinator of The Great
American Meatout 1 800 Meatout: The last thing my father told me before
he was taken to his death... was to love all creation.
Enriqueta Barrera, an associate professor of geology at the Univ. of
Akron: The deer study data is incomplete and should not be used to
justify killing the deer. (Sara Debanne, assoc. professor at CWRU
agrees.)
Issac Bashevis Singer (Nobel Prize winner in literature): Every body
resisted (the slaughterer) in its own fashion, tried to escape and
seemed to argue with the Creator to its last breath.
SS: May those who oppose capital punishment for humans extend that
protection to animals as well. May those who oppose germ and other
biological warfare work to end the unconscious biological warfare
unwittingly waged on those who eat animal products. Those who are
prolife would logically become vegetarian. Those who are prochoice
would not want to impose their wills upon the body of a cow, sheep or
pig.
Herb Newman, husband of Atty Diane Newman: We are instructed by the
Torah to feed our animals before we feed ourselves.
Secretary Pena of the U.S. Dept. of Energy: Many trees planted around a
home reduce the need for air conditioning (and are better winter
insulation). (Jim Bohannon Show Mutual Network Oct 27, 97)
Charismatic comedian Bob Cummings about his great energy level as a
senior: I never eat anything white.. no white sugar, salt, bread,
flour, milk, eggs.
Frank Purdu of Purdu's Chicken (factory farmer): When I was 6 my father
killed my pet chicken. (That changed his life.)
J Aislin (who takes care of stray people and animals in Washington): I
dreamt that spiders were weaving messages of love to us.
Annie Besant, around a century ago: In a 50 mile radius around Chicago
one can see the red aura of pain, agony, teerror, anger from all the
animals being butchered there. (May the Cubs and White Sox break the 80
odd years of drought by working for change.)
Scott Bauer Associated Press: So a hamburger can kill you. So what?
Burgess Meredith, who left for God on Sept 9th of this year: It's been
dead a while and I don't want to eat it (From the movie "Full Moon in
Blue Water")
Women's Studies head at Skidmore College near Albany and writer of a
book which seeks to justify hunting: Wheverer a deer falls to his death
is holy ground.
Constantina Salamone: To say food for humans and feed for animals is
one of thousands of examples of human chauvinism in our vocabulary.
When Clint Eastwood was making Westerns, he worked hard to end the trip
wiring of horses (invisible wires stretched across the road to make it
appear a horse fell in battle etc.) These tripwires often broke horses'
legs. As mayor of Carmel he promoted pure food.
Vincent Van Gogh: in a letter to his brother Theodore wrote: Since
visiting the abbatoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat.
Romain Rolland: Thousands of animals (now billions) are butchered every
day without a shadow of remorse. It cries vengeance upon all the human
race.
Brooke Medicine Wheel: We don't notice the harm right away in cutting
down a tree.
Benjamin Franklin (who was a vegetarian most of his life until as an
elder statesman he traveled to Paris): Venison and venery defeated me.
Geoffrey Rudd, anthropologist: Cows when not bred for passivity so that
they will go meekly to slaughter.. revert to their acute intelligence,
and can live easily in the wild.
Sai Baba: A person who loves is a theist, whether he goes to a temple
or church or not. You have to proceed from the known to the unknown.
Then the love expands in ever widening circles until it covers all
nature, until even plucking a leaf from a tree affects you so painfully
that you dare not injure it.
Dr. Edward Martin, head of Dept. of Defense Health: More and more we
realize that vegetarian diet is a good idea (NPR Oct 27)
Colman McCarthy, former Trappist, peace studies activist and columnist
for the Washington Post quoting historian Will Durant: Caesar's armies
marched on vegetarian foods.
Time Magazine August 97: Methionine in meat becomes homocysteine. High
homecysteine levels quadruple the chance of heart attack. (A Finnish
hospital study)
Dept. of Defense Health Director Dr. Edward Martin, MD: The transfatty
acids (found in animal products and cooked oils) are a factor in breast
cancer. (National Public Radio and CNN Nov 1st)
Charles Darwin: The most energetic workers I have encountered in my
world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
Tom Brazaitis, Washington bureau chief for the Cleveland Plain Dealer:
There is massive environmental disruption underway in the Buckeye
state.
K Redder: My husband has a cholesterol problem, so for Thanksgiving I
gave him a virtual turkey. (a turkey portrait)
Kilmer McCully, former Harvard researcher, subject of a NY Times Mag.
Aug 10, 1997 article for his groundbreaking research: Arteriosclerosis
can be considered a disease of protein intoxication.
Joe Finan (Nov 9, 97 in the context that nearly all religion's
scriptures promote vegetarian diet): If one talks the talk he should
walk the walk.
Marlo J: When I was little I shot a squirrel with my beebee gun. As I
watched him die I felt bad about what I'd done.
Michael Fox, DVM of the Humane Soc. of the US: Animals arrive at the
slaughterhouse, many, in a 4D state (dead, diseased, dying,
debilitated.) (These animals sometimes go into the pet food tankers).
Aviva Cantor writing in MS Magazine in 1983: It is a surprisingly close
progression from hunting animals to hunting and torturing people..
catching and lynching blacks or smoking out Jews during the Holocaust.
Dalya Massachi writing for the Columbus Dispatch: Karma means.. what
goes around comes around.
Vathsala: I'm a vegetarian. I eat peace.
Ingrid Newkirk, cofounder of PETA: They are fishes, not fish. (The word
fish objectifies these creatures who are often suffocated to death.)
Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald's to Paul Obis, founder of Vegetarian
Times: I have 40 cows.. they're not for meat. I can see you believe in
what you're doing.. it's important to strongly believe in what you're
doing. I think you'll do alright.
Art Margolis: With each egg we eat (since possibly 90% of all eggs come
from factory farms) we imprison a chicken 25 to 32 hours in a cage.
John F. Seiberling, whose legislation created the Cuyahoga Valley
National Recreation Area: (at a Colman McCarthy speech): I don't eat
mammals. I don't eat birds.(Rep. Seiberling was one of many 1976
co-sponsors of a Congressional vegetarian dinner.)
Ernest Crosby: We are humans who see clearly the barbarity of all ages
except our own.
Vic Sussman, former Washington Post columnist and Internet Director for
American On Line, author of The Vegetarian Alternative: "I love to
shell English peas tdo a Grade B movie"
Lao Tsu: Those who embody the Tao embrace all things.
James Marcus: I have an animal friendly Bible (no leather)
* Hot dogs are made of chicken's lips and fish feet (as well as snouts
and intestinal linings)
Rabbi Noach Valley: My father with a stroke of his doodling pen
bestowed noble lineage, complete with coats of arms, on the mongrels he
adopted. (despite the fact their parents mated without benefit of a
shadchan {matchmaker})
Schopenhauer: I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the
Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from
suffering.
Richard Ryder: I do not believe that any of the suffering I have caused
to laboratory animals has helped humanity in the slightest.
Former Pittsburgh Steeler and NY Giant football Player Glenn Scolnick:
We should live in harmony with Earth not conquer it.. or the animals.
The other members of the National Football League say I'm in the
minority.. but they are. A majority of the world is vegetarian.
Nat Hentoff of the Village Voice about Cardinal Bernardin's philosophy:
There is a seamless web to life.. all life is sacred..
David Stroud of the American Meat Institute in a debate in Detroit:
Some people are still going to want to eat meat.. we do agree though
that vegetarianism is a healthier diet.
Pegeen Fitzgerald of WOR TV and Radio in NY: For many years the media
have been afraid of the Goliath power of the meat industry. (But David
is coming!)
Greenpeace Global Warming Coordinator: These rightwing thinktanks (such
as Heritage, Cato, Rutherford) I like to call skeptic tanks.
Elizabeth Dole's first case as a lawyer involved defending the rights
of a lion at the Washiongton Zoo and many Republicans in Washington
secretly fund animal rights efforts.
Fruitarian Network: The equation 8:4::4:2.. or eight is to four as four
is to two.. as we would have God be with us.. we shall be to the
smaller, the weaker.
Victoria Moran: Gandhi was a David with no material weapon.. not even a
slingshot.
Paul Obis, founder in his early 20's of Vegetarian Times, which now has
a subscription of 350,000: Everything is sacred, even meat.
FN: There are vibrations to every food. Meat is the densest, the most
gross, the slowest, then dairy, then vegetables. Fruit vibrates closest
to pure light.
Gina Jones of the API: Mother Earth does not read government documents.
Larry L. Miller: Do not judge the uninitiated (who have not yet
universal compassion).
John Joseph Price: I am a baker and a candlestick maker, but have no
desire for butchering.
Isaiah 65: The wolf shall lie down with the lamb. They shall not hurt
nor destroy in all my holy mountain for the earth shall be full of the
knowledge of the Lord.
Jesus: Feed The Hungry. (In a world of 5 to 6 billion people drought,
famine, and flood are prevented by fruit tree groves.)
Cleveland Amory, Harvard Crimson editor, Parade columnist:If I'm lucky
enough to get to heaven I might find that God is a beaver or a burro.
What a sad world it would be if only the two-legged were here. We have
established a Let's Hunt The Hunters Club.. and we have certain rules:
a. we're only doing it for their good.. to cull the herd b. we don't
interfere with their mating season in parked cars c. we don't encourage
anyone to mount a hunter on the hood d. in wall mounting you may
include the cap and the jacket.
Cesar Chavez, pacifist head of the United Farm Workers: I feel very
deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog
Boycott who led me to question to right of humans to eat other sentient
beings. http://www.ufw.org
Milt Radney (who before his death gave, with his wife Gene over a
million dollars to the causes of children's mental health) When I was a
New York City cab driver for several years I maintained a vegetarian
diet which made me feel better.
James Kuntsler on NPR: We don't need gold plated highways. We don't
need zoning commissions which penalize offices at home and promote car
commutes. (paraphrased)
Saint of Shirdi: In accepting meat put into his begging bowl, Buddha
failed to put his teaching into practice. His teaching was ahimsa:
total nonviolence to all creatures.
Crazy Horse: Great Spirit gave us this land. White men came and killed
our animals and destroyed our land, then told us to go to work for a
living. We don't want what they call civilization.
Swami Shankarananda of Maryland: Holy communion is to feel one with the
One in all beings and creations.
Margaret Lytz: Assisting in heart operations, one sees the cholesterol
firsthand.. as thick ropes of glue which make the blood redwhite rather
than red.
James Marcus: I watched a nature film in which there were wall to wall
seals in the Pribilofs. One little seal got separated from his mother.
A bull threw him into the ocean.. every time he crawled out the bull
threw him back in again. (May God make this a kinder world.)
Arthur Schlesinger Jr: (on NPR): Theodore Roosevelt is not remembered
for the many bears he killed, but for the bear cub he saved. She
wandered into camp after her mother had been killed.. his party lifted
their guns and he interceded.
Saint of Shirdi: A human guard must be paid, but a dog gives love and
loyalty without expectation of payment.
Constantina Salamone, founder of a network of 15,000 ecofeminists
internationally: Feminists work to free women from domination,
violence, and neglect but women must also no longer dominate, violate
and neglect female animals robbing them of their eggs and milk, caging
them.
David O'Steen, national director of Right To Life: I decided I needed
to be consistent in my prolife stance so 13 years ago I became a
vegetarian.
James Marcus: Some say vegetarianism is an alternative diet.. but it is
the original diet, the plan designed by God.
Al Couch, 90 year old fruitarian: My research indicated that before
humankind began deforesting to create the Sahara and other deserts,
there were no violent thunderstorms.. nor drought.. only the gentlest
mist.
Edwin Markham, poet author of "Man With A Hoe: ladies did you ever see
an otter gnawing to get free gnawing what? his fettered leg.. for he
has no friend to beg Do you see that tortured shape... gnaw his leg off
to escape?
Dr. Neal Barnard, Md, psychiatrist and founder of the 6000 physician
coalition: Physicians For Responsible Medicine: To give a child animal
products is a form of child abuse. (child's diabetes related to cows'
milk.) (His book Food For Life cites 300 dietary studies.)
Medina releaser of animals in a mink farm (reported in the ABJ): It's
interesting that we're in jail and the murderers are outside. (The
Animal Liberation Front includes industrial agents of vivisection, fur,
meat trades etc, who seek to involve the group in the tarbrush of
violence and to deflect rivers of energy into sand. The best way to
change animal suffering in the world is to stop eating and using
animals and to convince others. Nevertheless, God has a different work
for each soul, different drummer thoughts for each mind, freedom of
conscience and freedom to disobey civilly.)
Franz Kafka: Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you anymore.
(to the fishes in his aquarium)
Nathaniel Altman: Nonviolence is not just abstention from war,
fighting, or animal flesh. It is abstention from negative thoughts and
negative speech.
Thomas A. Edison: The doctor of the future will give no medicine but
will interest his patients in the care of the human frame and in the
cause and preevention of disease.
Kirsty Allen in Look Who's Talking Too... when offered chicken: No
thank you. I don't eat meat.
Pinky and The Brain: Steven Spielberg cartoon of 2 lab mice who escape
and want to save all their friends also: They possess a SeaLion to
English dictionary.
Rep. Andrew Jacobs.. formerly of Indianapolis: I spoke often in
Congress against the war in Vietnam.. and commented on congresspersons
hiding from the reality of war by saying 'many eat the meat but few go
to the slaughterhouse'. I said it so often I became a vegetarian.
H G Wells (A Modern Utopia) 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.
Metro Bus driver Sam Filer: They say you should eat nothing that has a
face.
Fruitarian Network: Objectification reduces sensitivity. Thus cows are
called beef or head of cattle, pigs become pork, sheep mutton. The
screams are muted.. and living creatures become plastic wrapped
packages.
Ted Hughes, husband of Sylvia Plath: We are walking abbatoirs of
innocents.. our brains are incinerators of their cries..(a dog ate and)
all the deaths it had gulped.. could not digest their shrieking finales
Alexander Pope: But just disease to luxury succeeds, And every death
its own avenger breeds; The fury passions from that blood began, And
turned on Man a fiercer savage.. Man (from Essay on Man)
EPA: (Nov 18, 1997) People remove bits of the coral reef as souvenirs
not realizing that they are colonies of living animals.
Ron Goson, park enjoyer: I hunted as a kid. I couldn't kill today.
Sylvia Goson: I agree.
Richard Wagner the musician: That even in its sharpest pangs of pain a
dog can still caress its master we have learnt from the studies of
vivisectors.
Dave Foreman, cofounder of Earth First: My heroes used to be cowboys.
Marvin Kalb of CBS: Henry Kissinger was asked by Leonid Brezhnev to
join him in hunting boar and declined saying "I do not enjoy killing
animals".
Robert Burns from "On Scaring Some Waterfowl: "But man to whom alone is
given/ A ray direct from pitying /Heavn Glories in his heart humane
/And creatures for his pleasure slain.
Leo Tolstoy: Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how
deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life.
Ramana Maharshi biographer: At Ramana's ashram, he established the rule
that 1st would be fed the animals, then the beggars, next the visitors,
succeeded by the ashram residents. Finally when all else had eaten,
Ramana took food.
Mark Braunstein: When one eats cow's tongue, who is tasting whom?
Hippocratic Oath: First do no harm.
Philosopher: It is wrong to do a certain harm that an uncertain good
may result.
Sherry Kelley: Pray, don't spray.
Ezekiel 3 and 4: My body has never been defiled by animal flesh.
Bhagavad Gita: He is closest to God who harms no living creature.
Daniel 1: Daniel ate no flesh in Nebuchadnezzar's prison.
Bhagavad Gita: Foods which are sweet soft nourishing and agreeable are
dear to the good. Foods that are bitter, sour, saltish, very hot,
pungent, harsh and buring, producing pain, grief and disease are liked
by the passionate. Foods which are spoiled tasteless putrid and stale
are liked by the dull.
William Jones of the Asiatic Society: Sanskrit is more copious than
Greek, more perfect than Latin, and more exquisitely refined than
either." Sanskrit is the only language whose characters written.. match
their pattern of sound vibration.
Isaiah: He that slayeth an ox is as he that slayeth a man.
Edith Bunker: Archie.. do you want eggs for breakfast? Archie: I'm not
going to eat anything that was in a cow's mouth. Fix me eggs, Edith.
Dick Gregory, author of Harper Collins' Cookin With Mother Nature For
Folks Who Eat (re cod liver oil, liver etc.) Eating liver out of a
cow's body is like eating the filter out of a car.
Tasnin: Gizzards are nasty...they taste like rubber bands.
D. Wilson: I have been a vegetarian for 27 years and am a jogger.
Recently I found that sugar in America is processed using charcoaled
bones of animals... so for the last 3 months I have been off of sugar.
J R: There is a mad sows' disease as well as mad cows' disease
(trichinosis etc.)
Prayer posted in Brody Nickol's computer room: God protect the small
creatures who have no words to protect themselves. (paraphrased)
Leonard Bertsch: One cannot study death to understand life. One cannot
know about a living tree by upending a dead one to study its roots.
Numbers: God ordered fiery serpents to harm the disobedient. (Numbers
also: I will speak to you directly, not in riddles)
Saint of Shirdi: Never harm a snake or a scorpion. He will harm you
only if ordered to do so by God. If so ordered, there is nothing you
can do. (The Biblical authority to have power over snakes and scorpions
can also be interpreted to mean conquering the serpent of sensuality
and the scorpion of physical or verbal venomous revenge)
Anonymous: Perhaps we could have a Society of Three Legged Mammals for
those who loved meat but did not want to be involved in killing.
D. Wilson: When I was 17.. many years ago.. I was high on marijuana. My
thought processes were slowed down. I was eating chicken at the time
and suddenly realized I was gnawing on the leg of a chicken. I have not
eaten meat or fish or used marijuana since. I did not need them.
Chief Seattle as provided by Soteria: All creation is one. What we do
to one, we do to the entire web of life.
Deepak Chopra, MD (at Border's): Vegetarianism is a healthier diet.
Don Papes: In the early 80's I witnessed a Calgary Stampede.. and saw a
calf whose neck was apparently broken from the roping. (A horizontal
hanging can occur).(Paraphrased.)
James Marcus: Spaying is a compromise in terms of reverence for life,
but perhaps a necessary one in a society which kills millions of dogs
and cats a year in "animal shelters".
Charlton Heston: I'm not a vegetarian but I want you to know that my
four dogs are safe.
Cleveland Amory (TV Guide and Parade columnist): I consider the 3 most
cruelly produced foods to be from lobsters, dropped alive into boiling
water, veal from calves separated from their mothers and kept in
crates, and pate de foie gras. (Pate de foie gras is covered in the
film Mondo Kane which shows the force feeding of geese. Food is stuffed
down their throats with a pole.. when they want to regurgitate.. a
brass ring is tied around the throat.. the excess food creates a
stuffed liver pleasing to gourmets.)(Caviar comes from the ripping out
of the ovaries of the mother sturgeon fish.)
Dom Fallucco: Someone showed a film of animals being slaughtered at our
grade school. I remember which people in the class cried.
Former Senator William Proxmire: The recommended daily allownaces are
based on arbitrary, unscientific, and tainted standards (in a speech
about his bill backed by 37 senators to reduce the power of the FDA)
James Bond's physician in Never Say Never: You need to cut out red meat
James. You're in terrible shape.
Olympic wrestler: Vegetarian wrestlers who do not work out lose their
muscle much more slowly than nonvegetarians.
Jerry Springer: Vegetarianism is a good idea.
David Shiva: It is not enough to avoid the physical harming of creation
but also to avoid hurting hearts through speech.
JBO: I don't like rare meat. I don't like to be reminded of the blood.
Amos Oz, Israeli novelist: If you change your diet, someone will call
you a traitor (interview on National Public Radio)
Philosopher Jeremy Bentham: The question is not can animals speak but
can they suffer.
Mel Gibson on NPR 11/15/97: In India it is believed that all creatures
have a purpose.
David Letterman Pizza Special (carried by Joe at the Pizza shop near
the broadcast theatre): all vegetable pizza (no pepperoni.. only
pepper)
Jim Ritchey: As the tobacco industry depends on smokers, so the
domestic arms industry depends upon hunters.
Drew Carey: My cranky cardiologist says I'm destined to die in the
kitchen (re cheeseburgers). (We pray you have a long life and a
peaceful joyful death.)
Roy Rogers (who sold his hamburger chain): singing to Trigger his horse
in a movie: Oh a four footed friend a four footed friend will never let
you down. (whether horse or cow cat dog or sow)
Lynn Scher of 20/20: about giraffes: They are politically correct:
vegetarian. pacifist..nonterritorial and don't discriminate based on
color.
Rex Harrison in Dr. Dolittle: (Because I love the taste of meat) I am a
reluctant but dedicated vegetarian.
Melanie, the singer: I don't eat animals because they don't eat me.
Miriam Ferguson, former governor of Texas: As we put into all our
schools more humane education, and foster the spirit of justice and
kindness toward the "lower" creatures, just as soon shall we reach the
roots not only of cruelty but of crime.
Joseph Wood Krutch: When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of
man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of God we
call him a sportsman.
Wilma Smith, Cleveland tv broadcaster: If you are away during the day
have a companion cat or dog for the first one.
Art Bell, radio talk show host: Kennels are cat jail. I pay someone to
be in the house with my animals when I'm on vacation.
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THE RIGHTS OF THE TINY, THE POWERLESS, THE VOICELESS
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Jesus: Whatsoever you have done to these the least of my brethren you
have done unto me.
Clare Wilson: As I was nursing Natalie a mosquito landed on me and it
seemed natural to let him nurse too.
Dick Goddard, longtime Fox 8 weatherman: People have the misimpression
that cows in a blizzard die of the cold. They often die of thirst,
unable to process enough ice into their water needs (paraphrased)
Chief Justice William O. Douglas: Trees have judicial standing, and
probably grass too.
James Marcus: The sweet rain has stilled the buzz of the winged ones.
Good Morning America host on ABC Dec 4, 1997: My 2 little girls insist
I put bugs outside.
Winston Churchill: When I find a ladybug I ask the butler to take it
outside instead of killing it. (paraphrased)
Terry McGovern, daughter of Senator George and Eleanor McGovern,
subject of the book Terry by her father: I go out of my way to avoid
stepping on ants.
The Fire Prevention Society: Remember that Christmas trees are thirsty
too.
Radhakrishnan: Each is all.
Don Papes: She turned out to be a plant chauvinist.. she preferred rose
bushes to wild weeds. Plants do better around those with atomizers.
Dave Butler, horticulturist: It's a myth that goldenrod causes
allergies. It is the ragweed which sometimes grows near it which does.
(The book Mucusless Diet by Arnold Ehret couunsels elimination of
allergies through cancellation of mucus foods (meat, dairy, breads)
Virginia creeper is often destroyed by people who mistake it for poison
ivy.
Posted by sb11 on 03-18-2004 06:30 PM:
Fruitarian Network: Is the word 'overgrown' an oxymoron? Does God ever
do anything to excess in Godgrown greenfields?
Screenwriter of "Who Killed The Chefs of Europe?" analyzed: Each chef
in this murder mystery dies in the way he prepares his premier dish.
Thus one is dropped like a lobster into boiling water. Another is
sliced and diced etc.
Pat Leigh: After the bird has eaten the worm, the worm takes a while to
trust birds.
Isaac Bashevis Singer, Nobel Prize winner: No lepidopterist's
collection in the entire world...full if iridescent wings, is worth the
life of a single butterfly.
John Joseph Price: God does not play favorites. The difference between
a flower or wildflower or weed is only a matter of human judgment.
Bill Marshall: I place spiders out of the house. I don't like to kill
them.
Peter Burwash: A column of ants began to follow me onto the tennis
court. Because I would not step on them, I lost the match. But I won
with God.
Jan Gopal F: (When one grows up in Manhattan where apartment buildings
are constantly involved in extermination of cockroaches one realizes)
they are always waiting in the wings.
Sai Baba: Why pluck a flower and hasten its death?
George Bernard Shaw:I love little children but I don't cut off their
heads and stick them in vases.
Arthur Conan Doyle through Sherlock Holmes: criticism of a character
who enjoyed inflicting pain on cockroaches: "Violence recoils on the
violent." (May all have Love as the teacher)
Mary Catherine Ryan: Contact the Spirit of the cockroaches. First
listen listen listen.. the negotiate. Then ask them to go to a more
suitable place.
National Public Radio July 22, 1997 Methyl parathion used to kill
roaches has caused fatalities from nausea, dizziness.
Don Papes: That maple tree was afraid to branch out. (Her lower
branches had been cut back frequently.. but now she was reaching above
the roof and could slowly stretch out the tendrils of trust.)
JR: At the base of the eyelash lives an invisible mite. Ask not what
your mite can do for you.. but what you can do for your mite. And
remember: mite is right.
B Stull: The city scheduled a cockroach inspection.. so my friend had
to knit a lot of little uniforms.
Laughing River: It is a violent thing to cover and to suffocate Mother
Earth.
Unknown: Weeds are plants humans have not yet figured out how to
exploit. Humans think they are useless because they create oxygen and
stabilize the weather and have a beauty invisible to those of immature
eyes.
Bruce Kilby quoting from a Beacon Journal article: The dragonfly can
eat 400 to 500 mosquitos a day.. which is a more natural solution than
insecticides.
TN'S McDonnell: The sturgeon take a long time to die on the fishing
lines.
Channel 19 Newscaster: I don't mind fur as long as it's fake.
Portland Trailblazer Bill Walton: I grow organic vegetables (vegetables
grown without insecticides.)
FN: A. said that those who live with cockroaches are filthy. If God
created cockroaches does that make God filthy?
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THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF MATTER
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Physicist Stephen Hawking: Computer viruses are alive.
Professor N Kasturi of All India Radio: We followed our teacher in a
car caravan. One by one parts were falling off my car. When I took it
to a mechanic at the destination he said it was physically impossible
for the car to have arrived. I asked my teacher.. "Did you do this
miracle because we are good devotees?" And my teacher replied: "The
car.. the car is a great devotee".
Nellie Marshall: I hate to see the gold carpet of leaves removed.
(Recently Mary Tyler Moore offered $1000 to keep one restaurant's very
old lobster from being dropped alive into boiling water. Rush Lumbaugh
hearing of this offered $2000 to eat the lobster).
James Marcus: I'm good with machines. I know where to scratch, pet, and
tickle them.
THOUGHTS ON THE ABOLITION OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
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Cary Grant in His Girl Friday to a sheriff who has withheld knowledge
of a governor's reprieve so that he may be re-elected: "That's murder."
NPR caller to Ray Suarez show discussing anthrax: The difference
between petroleum in warfare and petroleum in a petroleum chamber is
quantitative, not qualitative.
Thoughts from seeing the Susan Sarandon movie: Dead Men Walking: A
man's killing in short term hot passion, is not as evil as the state's
coldblooded premeditated murder of him in an electric chair or
petroleum chamber or needle injection cell.
Charles Grodin, star of Beethoven and talk show host: It seems there
are no rich on death row. (Nor percentage wise do as many white slayers
die as black slayers.)
Thomas Edison wanted to market his electric chair to demonstrate the
uses of electricity. He sent so much voltage through to the man
publicly executed that the man's bones caught on fire.
Yvonne Painter, Cleveland poet: Before David had to fight Goliath God
trained him on a bear and a lion.
BIBLE QUOTES
Isaiah: I delight not in your blood sacrifice.
Jesus: Ye are whited sepulchres. (The Greek word for this
translation is sarcophagi.. [sarx flesh phagi eater]
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Sai Baba: God is in every creature. How can you cause such pain?
Jonah:
Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou
hast not labored, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and
perished in a night:
and should not I spare Nin'eveh, that great city, wherein are more than
sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand
and their left hand; and also much cattle? http://bartleby.com/108
Posted by sb11 on 03-18-2004 06:49 PM:
THOUGHTS ON ANTS ....
Rhonda Fleming (Christian) "I cannot kill an ant."
James Coburn: (Buddhist) I do not kill flies.
Vedas: Jada Bharat was drafted to carry with others the
palanquin of the king. He stepped to avoid ants in such
a way that his actions were erratic and he was released from
compulosry duty.
Peter Burwash, professional tennis player and vegetarian
saw a column of ants come onto the court and crawl toward
the net. He lost the match because he would not harm them.
Father Ron Lengwin, KDKA host:
Adam's apple may have been the heart of the first animal
butchered.
Warswa ghetto oncentration camp survivor: The last thing
my father told me before he was taken away to be killed was not to harm
the cockroaches who ran along the walls of
our holding area.
JR: At the base of the eyelash
is an invisible mite.
Ask not what your mite can do for you
but what you can do for your mite.
And always remember
mite makes right.
*
Before he voted
for baby bombing and other
forms of human termination
his specialty
was extermination
T P Earley:
Hens peck each other.. (as in 'henpecked')
but seldom die.
When cocks fight there is often
death.
ENVIRONMENT
"The impact of countless hooves and mouths over the years has done more
to alter the type of vegetation and land forms of the West than all
the water projects, strip mines, power plants, freeways, and subdivsion
developments combined."
-- Philip Fradkin in Audubon, National Audubon Society, NY, NY
"Most of the public lands in the West, and especially the Southwest,
are what you might call cow burnt. Almost anywhere and everywhere you
go in the American West you find hordes of [cows].... They are a pest
and a plague. They pollute our springs and streams and rivers. They
infest our canyons, valleys, meadows, and forests. They graze off the
native bluestems and grama and bunch grasses, leaving behind jungles of
*****ly pear. They trample down the native forbs and shrubs and cacti.
They spread the exotic cheatgrass, the Russian thistle, and the crested
wheat grass. Weeds. Even when the cattle are not physically present,
you see the dung and the flies and the mud and the dust and the general
destruction. If you don't see it, you'll smell it. The whole American
West stinks of cattle."
-- The late Edward Abbey, conservationist and author, in a speech
before cattlemen at the University of Montana in 1985
"You can buy the land out there now for the same price as a couple of
bottles of beer per acre. When you've got half a million acres and
20,000 head of cattle, you can leave the lousy place and go live in
Paris, Hawaii, Switzerland, or anywhere you choose."
akron...@yahoo.com
feeling quite well this way. It always seems to me that man was not
born to be a carnivore." Albert Einstein in a letter written to Hans
Muehsam
ahimsa
"It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human
pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them."
-Johnson, Samuel
"Though I am an old horse, and have seen and heard a great deal, I
never yet could make out why men are so fond of this sport; they often
hurt themselves, often spoil good horses, and tear up the fields, and
all for a hare, or a fox, or a stag, that they could get more easily
some other way; "
-Sewell, Anna
"One knows so well the popular idea of health. The English country
gentleman galloping after a fox -- the unspeakable in full pursuit of
the uneatable."
-Wilde, Oscar
"Hunting is inherently risky."
-Whittington, Harry
"Hunter colors are scarlet..crimson..
from the shedding of innocents' blood
Green is the color of
God's trees greening.
There is no hunter green.
There is only .... hunter gangrene..."
-Niemus, O Anna
"sour bitter fruit in time becomes sweet and soft,
so all serially killing hunters in time will become nonviolent."
-Hridaaya, Anna
"When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger
wants to murder him he calls it ferocity."
-Shaw, George Bernard
"They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting
horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to
them."
-Erasmus, Desiderius
ahimsa
"Only animals were not expelled from Paradise.
ahimsa
Vegetarian & Vegan Related Quotes
I used to wear real fur, but, like many others, I had a change of heart
when I learned what actually happens to the animals.
-Martha Stewart
I turned vegetarian after 9/11. A friend of mine came back from New
York and said that he couldn't stand the smell of burnt flesh. It
immediately reminded me of a barbecue.
-Alyssa Milano
{Our 7-year-old daughter} Maggie is our all-natural girl. Anything to
do with nature and anything that breathes and walks and moves, she
wants it. And she informed us the other day that she's gonna be a
vegetarian. She just woke up one morning and said, 'I'm gonna be a
vegetarian,' and she has been one ever since,".
-Faith Hill
Every time we go by KFC, my kids ask me to honk and they yell 'Boo' out
the window.
-Pamela Anderson
I'm on a vegan diet, I do yoga every day, I work out, I'm totally
spiritual ...
-Avril Lavigne
I wouldn't eat a chicken if it dropped dead in front of me holding up a
sign that said, Eat Me.
-Ricky Williams
According to the group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals,
fish have feelings too. Whenever my sons go fishing they always tell
me, "Dad it doesn't hurt a fish to get hooked." Well I watch and I see
and I believe it's painful for the fish.
-Donald Trump
Someone from Manolo Blahnik went into my shop and said: 'These shoes
are not vegetarian.' That's the highest compliment, because you just
can't tell that they are, and they are." "My mum taught me to have a
soul.
-Stella McCartney
I sometimes think, would I drink the milk from the breast of a woman I
don't know? No. So I think, why would I drink it from a cow.
-Devon Aoki
My wife actually got worried about my drinking so much regular milk,
you know, so she got me into rice milk and now soy milk, which I
greatly enjoy. A soy mocha's a fine thing.
-Willie Nelson
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
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
You know, we all oppose animal cruelty. But sometimes we forget that
animals on farms suffer and feel pain like all other animals. They,
too, deserve to be protected from harm and cruelty.
-Charlotte Ross
I was watching an HBO special on eating habits and different cultures,
and they showed in China how people eat cats, and I'm really fond of
cats, and I happened to be sitting on the couch with my cat, and once I
saw that, it just put everything in perspective. If I wouldn't eat my
cat what's the difference [between] eating a cat or a cow? If certain
animals are considered lesser than, so are certain people and that's
not really fair. And the root of that is to consider life on equal
terms across the board.
-Ben Kenney
I think it's really disgusting that designers use fur, and it's
disgusting that people wear fur. It has to stop. It's so unnecessary in
today's world, with the technology we have. I'm wearing fabulous
"ultrasuede" tonight. This is totally the look of leather. There's a
way to get it without death involved. We should be part of the
solution, not part of the problem.
-Marc Bouwer
I don't eat any animals or anything that has to do with animals. No
fish or egg or dairy because I personally don't feel it's a good
practice to eat anything that might run away from you.
-Russell Simmons
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
I'd like to see animals removed from the entertainment business.
Chimpanzees and apes won't perform unless you beat them. Circuses keep
elephants in chains 90 percent of the time. Elephants need freedom of
movement. In circuses, they live in cramped quarters, which is not the
life intended for them by nature. Some are beaten daily, forced to do
ridiculous tricks and robbed of every shred of dignity.
-Bob Barker
Linda McCartney sausages were my favorite. They re much better than
eating real sausages and you don t have to contemplate half way through
exactly what s inside them. ... You can have them, a bit of fried
bread, tinned tomatoes. Delicious.
-Simon Cowell
I never really liked meat. I was a child that had to be forced to eat
my meat. Whatever you ate before that you loved like turkey slices
they've got a substitute now that's not hard to find.
-Masta Killer
I became very critical of zoos and circuses and keeping animals in
captivity. I wish it was against the law.
-Christopher Walken
I'd like to see animals removed from the entertainment business.
Chimpanzees and apes won't perform unless you beat them. Circuses keep
elephants in chains 90 percent of the time. Elephants need freedom of
movement. In circuses, they live in cramped quarters, which is not the
life intended for them by nature. Some are beaten daily, forced to do
ridiculous tricks and robbed of every shred of dignity.
-Bob Barker
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
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
Maybe the world would be better if people didn't hate so much and kill
animals.
-Craig Nicholls of the Vines
I've been vegan for about 10 and a half years. It's been all good. I'm
obviously much healthier
-Woody Harrelson
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
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
Vegetarianism that is me. I don't eat meat. It's been over 10 years.
Actually it's been 11 and a half years and I feel good and I feel like
I look good and I have energy& and you have to look at what you're
putting in your body. I eat vegetables and I eat grain and I take care
of myself and I don't think I look that bad, do I?
-Tracy Bingham
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
It does take a little work to be a vegetarian but it's so worth it, oh
it's so worth it!
-Tippi Hedren
Nothing's changed my life more. I feel better about myself as a person,
being conscious and responsible for my actions and I lost weight and my
skin cleared up and I got bright eyes and I just became stronger and
healthier and happier. Can't think of anything better in the world to
be but be vegan.
-Alicia Silverstone
I think there's something odd about eating another living anything.
-Shania Twain
I was sitting here eating my plate of chicken salad, and suddenly I
looked down and saw all the meat on my plate and just wasn't hungry
anymore. So i've decided I'm not going to eat meat.
-Shiri Appleby
The person I love would never wear fur. Fur just makes me think of
shallow women who have no conscience. The fur industry belongs to a
time when people were selfish beyond belief. If you were some ancient
tribal cheiftain, and there was not a department store nearby 350 years
ago, I'd understand. But now, we have synthetic fibers,and it's not
necessary. The elitism of fur makes me wanna puke.
-Gavin Rossdale
I don't eat meat, fish, or eggs. I was never a big meat-eater, but I've
got more energy now," says Shania, who hasn't eaten an animal since she
married longtime vegetarian (and record producer) Mutt Lange.
-Shania Twain
I quit eating red meat a long time ago. I'm a vegetarian, but not by a
moral issue or any kind of stand. I still eat dairy. And I quit eating
sugar about the same time I quit eating red meat, but I eat fruit.
-Dwight Yoakam
I have witnessed and tended to calves in rodeos who became paralyzed
and whose tracheas were totally or partially severed. Slamming them to
the ground has caused rupture of several internal organs leading to a
slow and agonizing death.
-Dr. E.J. Finocchino
Many years ago, I was in a Broadway show and I had to wear a fox fur
around my shoulders. One day my hand touched one of the fox's legs. It
seemed to be in two pieces. Then it dawned on me.... her leg had
probally been snapped in two by the steel trap that had caught it.
-Bea Arthur
I admit to having worn suede and leather pants myself for a while, but
you just never feel clean, and it's degenerate, anyway, to wear animal
skins.... So I went back to bluejeans after my degenerate period.
-Andy Warhol
The 1950's American dream of owning a mink coat is as dead as the 60
mink killed to make that coat.
-Trish Donnally
It's sad. That's a living creature. We don't have the right to take
thier life away for fashion.
-Carmen Electra
We don't live the lives of Eskimos. We don't need to kill animals for
fashion.
-Charlize Theron
I'm a big health food freak and a vegetarian devotee.
-Chelsea Clinton
They've been trying to test on animals for the past 50 years. Nobody's
come up with a cure,"he says. "If you want to test on somebody, test on
me."
-Montell Williams
Not that I say,"Oh,I'm not going to associate with certain people.,"
but I have my world,and I only want to be around people who I feel
stimulated by. I have to be honest I do have a new quest: I want to
meet more vegetarians,people who are more like minded. There's
something real neat about that feeling. It makes you feel so settled to
know there's somebody else sitting right there,being so passionate
about what i'm passionate about. I don't want to be around selfish
people. I try to keep myself surrounded by deep people who will move
me.
-Alicia Silverstone
We always had dogs,so I understood all the joy and the love animals are
capable of giving. It's crazy to me that some people have dogs in thier
homes, but they treat them more like furniture.
-Alicia Silverstone
I know what it feels like to be hurt,and I don't want to cause that
pain to any other person or creature. But somehow, in society, we numb
ourselves in order to make money or to feel better about ourselves,
such as with cosmetics or food. We say to ourselves, I'm going to use
this animal. I'm going to say it doesn't have much worth so that I can
allow myself to do these cruel things. And that just isn't fair.
-Alicia Silverstone
I don't have any understanding of a human being who doesn't respect the
beauty of life and that goes for all creatures that have
thoughts,feelings and needs.
-Alicia Silverstone
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
The fact is that there is enough food in the world for everyone. But
tragically, much of the world's food and land resources are tied up in
producing beef and other livestock--food for the well off--while
millions of children and adults suffer from malnutrition and
starvation.
-Dr.Walden Bello
When you see the golden arches you are probally on your way to the
pearly gates.
-William Castelli,M.D.
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
There exists a substantial body of competent and reliable scientific
evidence that eating eggs increases the risk of heart attacks or heart
disease....This evidence is systematic,consistent,strong,and congruent.
-Ernest G. Barnes
An important fact to remember is that all natural diets, including
purely vegetarian diets without a hint of dairy products, contain
amounts of calcium that are above the treshold for meeting your
nutritional needs....In fact,calcium deficiency caused by an
insufficient amount if calcium in the diet is not known to occur in
humans.
-John McDougall
I know hundreds of people who have spent years and thousands of dollars
on tests looking for ulcers or spastic bowels. I tell them to lay off
all dairy products for two weeks. The results are usually so striking
that it changes thier lives.
-David Jacobs
I would expect an extremely high percentage of the chickens would test
positive. Our poultry industry clients wouldn't like that.
-Brian Shelton Pathogen Control
The oath I took as an inspector said if I ever saw anything wrong I was
supposted to report it. But today I can't report anything.Today, if you
blow your whistle, you're in trouble with the inspection service. I
feel the oath I took is violated every day I work.
-William Freeman
There is strong medical evidence that complete freedom from eating
animal flesh or cow's milk products is a gateway to optimal nutritional
health.
-Dr.Klaper
I was raised on a dairy farm and ate plenty of meat and eggs until
about twenty years ago. I started doing nutritional research, and a
decade or so after that my family made some major dietary changes. I'm
just paying attention to what the data are telling me.The scientific
evidence came first.
-T. Colin Campbell
Whether industralized societies...can cure themselves of thier meat
addictions may ultimately be a greater factor in world health than all
the docters,health insurance policies,and drugs put together.
-The China-Oxford-Cornell Project on Nutrition
Vegetarians have the best diet. They have the lowest rates of coronary
disease of any group in the country....Some people scoff at
vegetarians, but they have a fraction of our heart attack rate and they
have only 40 percent of our cancer rate. They outlive other men by
about six years now.
-Dr.William Castelli
If you step back and look at the data, the optimum amount of red meat
you eat should be zero.
-Dr.Walter Willet
The standard four food groups are based on American agricultural
lobbies. Why do we have a milk group? Because we have a National Dairy
Council. Why do we have a meat group? Because we have an extremely
powerful meat lobby.
-Marion Nestle
The person who is afraid to alter his living habits,and especially his
eating and drinking habits, because he is afraid that other persons may
regard him as queer,eccentric,or fanatic forgets that the ownership of
his body,the responsibility for its well-being,belongs to him, not
them.
-Dr.Paul Brunton
Yes, sometimes unusual things happen after a switch to a vegetarian
diet. I've seen a number of cases in which the poor people broke out in
violent attacks of good health,followed by bouts of physical exercise
and sweet thoughts.
-Anonymous
Excessive animal protein is at the core of many chronic diseases.
-Dr.Campbell
Kids nowadays...tend to go overboard on protein --- something I believe
to be totally unnecsssary...I state in my formula for basic good
eating: Eat about one gram of protein for every two pounds of body
weight.
-Arnold Schwarzenegger
Vegetarians always ask about getting enough protein. But I don't know
any nutrition expert who can plan a diet of natural foods resulting in
a protein deficiency, so long as you're not deficient in calories. You
need only 5 or 6 percent of total calories in protein... and it is
pratically impossible to get below 9 percent in ordinary diets.
-Nathan Pritikin
The transition of world agriculture from food grain to feed grains
represents an...evil whose consequences may be far greater and longer
lasting than any past examples of violence inflicted by men against
thier fellow human beings.
-Jeremy Rifkin
To be a vegetarian is to disagree---to disagree with the course of
things today. Starvation,world hunger,cruelty,waste,wars---we must make
a statement against these things.Vegetarianism is my statment. And I
think it's a strong one
-Isaac Bashevis Singer
Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventure, and for hides
and furs is a phenomena which is at once disgusting and distressing.
There is no justification in indulging is such acts of brutality.
-The XLV Dalai Lama
There are viable (and usually better) alternatives to the use of
animals for food, sport, clothing, & experimentation. I beg you to
discontinue any actions that might cause or condone animal torture,
abuse, or destruction.
-Moby
The environment is worth more than consumer goods and the g.n.p.
freedom of speech is absolute and inviolate. guns are too dangerous for
private ownership. sustainable & non-polluting energy sources make
environmental and economic sense. research performed on animals is, by
definition, scientifically unsound. cruelty is unacceptable. what you
do with your own body is your choice. one individual violently imposing
his or her will on another individual is wrong. you can't expect people
to worry about the world when they can't feed themselves or their
children. the hazards and risks of nuclear power make it unacceptable
as an energy source. the use of animals for food is unhealthy,
inefficient, & cruel. people need love & affection. tobacco use has
killed & harmed more people than all human wars combined.
-Moby
If you look at the course of western history you'll see that we're
slowly granting basic rights to everyone. A long time ago only kings
had rights. Then rights were extended to property-owning white men.
Then all men. Then women. Then children. Then the mentally retarded.
Now we're agonizing over the extension of basic rights to homosexuals
and animals. We need to finally accept that all sentient creatures are
deserving of basic rights. I define basic rights as this --the ability
to pursue life without having someone else's will involuntarily forced
upon you. Or, as the framers of the constitution put it, the ability to
have "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness". By what criteria can
you justify denying basic rights to any living thing? Realize that by
whatever criteria you employ someone could deny basic rights to you if
they objected to your species, sexual preferences, color, religion,
ideology etc. Would you eat your housecat, or force a mentally retarded
child to ingest oven cleaner? If not, then why is it ok to eat cows and
test products on sentient animals? I believe that to knowingly commit
actions that cause or condone suffering is reprehensible in the
extreme.I call upon you to be compassionate and treat others as you
want to be treated. If you don't want to be beaten, imprisoned,
mutilated, killed or tortured then you shouldn't condone such behavior
towards anyone, be they human or not.
-Moby
Everything revolves around the fork.
-Howard Lyman
Most Americans don't have any idea how well the Department of
Agriculture protects the grower at the expense of the consumer. When a
chemical is banned from use, a farmer or livestock operator who has the
chemical in stock has a choice: either to lose money by disposing of
the product, or to use it and take the risk of getting caught breaking
the law. How severe is that risk? Well, if you use a banned product in
your cattle feed, you have to face the prospect that the government is
going to inspect one out of every 250,000 carcasses. They will test
this carcass not for all banned substances, but just for a small
fraction of them. And even if they detect some residue of a banned
substance, and even if they're able to trace the carcass to the ranch
that produced it, the guilty rancher is likely at most to receive a
stern letter with a strongly worded warning. I never met a rancher who
suffered in any way from breaking any regulation meant to protect the
safety of our meat. The whole procedure is, in short, a charade.
-Howard Lyman
When we kill animals to eat them they end up killing us because their
flesh...was never intended for human beings, who are naturally
herbivores."
-William C. Roberts, M.D
The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of
85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and
am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak 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
Animals are becoming more diseased and it will not be long until animal
food will be discarded by many besides Seventh-day Adventists. Foods
that are healthful and life sustaining are to be prepared, so that men
and women will not need to eat meat.
-Ellen White
God gave our first parents the food He designed that the race should
eat. It was contrary to His plan to have the life of any creature
taken. There was to be no death in Eden. The fruit of the trees in the
garden was the food man's wants required.
-Ellen White
I tremble for my species when I reflect that God is just.
-Thomas Jefferson
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.
-Matthew 5:7
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the
torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
-Froude
To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human
being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of
the human body.
-Mohandas Gandhi
To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in
the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the
latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man
who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly
butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to
refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the
unpardonable crime.
-Romain Rolland
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
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
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
Gambling, eating meat, wine-bibbing, adultery, hunting, thieving,
debauchery - these seven things in this world lead to the hells.
-Sanskrit Shloka
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
Basically we should stop doing those things that are destructive to the
environment, other creatures, and ourselves and figure out new ways of
existing.
-Moby
Your choice of diet can influence your long term health prospects more
than any other action you might take.
-Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop
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
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
The closer you can live to being a vegetarian the better.
-Gary Player
Therefore a person fully absorbed in the bodily concept of life is
surely killing himself by not making spiritual progress. Such a person
is called pasu-ghna. Especially excluded from spiritual life are the
animal hunters, who are not interested in hearing and chanting the holy
name of the Lord. Such hunters are always unhappy, both in this life
and in the next. It is therefore said that a hunter should neither die
nor live because for such persons both living and dying are
troublesome.
-A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
If you don't like my opinions leave.But just remember, the animals
can't leave the cages that hold them. They are captive and suffering.
As you cozy into your bed tonight, try to imagine the pain and the
suffering that they endure day after day and night after night. Next
time you get some soap in your eyes, try to imagine that pain for 3 or
4 days at a time. Next time you have a stomach ache, try to imagine
liquid plumber being poured down your throat till you puke so much
blood that you bleed to death. Next time you bump your head, try to
imagine being a monkey and getting a steel plate smashed into your
skull at 50 miles per hour. Then, only then should you feel compelled
to tell me that I'm wrong about my opinions. For all these things have
happened in the name of science. They continue in abundance till this
day.
-Ricki Rockett
The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply
rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we
must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another, even
the lowliest creature; to do so is to renounce our manhood and shoulder
a guilt which nothing justifies.
-Albert Schweitzer
Based on my experience in Los Angeles, my advice to the public is not
to eat meat.
-Gregorio Natavidad-meat inspector
I don't eat chicken anymore. I won't eat it. I won't allow it in my
house.
-Rodney Leonard -U.S. Poultry inspection
I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian
diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut
people open and put them on cholesterol-lowering drugs for the rest of
their lives.
-Dean Ornish, MD
It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is
first acclaimed. It was once considered foolish to suppose that black
men were really human beings and ought to be treated as such. What was
once foolish has now become a recognized truth. Today it is considered
as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form of life as
being the serious demand of a rational ethic. But the time is coming
when people will be amazed that the human race existed so long before
it recognized that thoughtless injury to life is incompatible with real
ethics. Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to
everything that has life.
-Albert Schweitzer
Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our
technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics.
-Peter Singer
Do we, as humans, having an ability to reason and to communicate
abstract ideas verbally and in writing, and to form ethical and moral
judgments using the accumulated knowledge of the ages, have the right
to take the lives of other sentient organisms, particularly when we are
not forced to do so by hunger or dietary need, but rather do so for the
somewhat frivolous reason that we like the taste of meat? In essence,
should'nt we know better?
-Peter Cheeke
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've always felt somewhat out of place with other kids my own age, said
River. I was constantly reminded by people's reaction to our names and
our diet that we seemed weird to them.
-River Phoniex
Animals can't really voice their opinion. We feel as though we can be
on of the spokespeople on their behalf.
-River Phoniex
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
Men hunt I think maybe because they have something wrong with thier own
equipment and they need something else to shoot.
-Pamela Anderson
I've always been very bonded to animals -- more so than most people.
(laughs) I don't think that they can defend themselves, so we have to
help them.
-Jennie Garth
There can be no justification for causing suffering to animals simply
to serve man's pleasure or simply to enhance man's lifestyle."
-The Dean of York
The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our
job is to salvage Mother Nature...We are facing a formidable enemy in
this field. It is the hunters...and to convince them to leave their
guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.
-Jacques Cousteau
Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is--whether
its victim is human or animal--we cannot expect things to be much
better in this world... We cannot have peace among men whose hearts
delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or
even tolerates such moronic delight in killing we set back the progress
of humanity.
-Rachel Carson
I despise and abhor the pleas on behalf of that infamous practice,
vivisection... I would rather submit to the worst of deaths, so far as
pain goes, than have a single dog or cat tortured to death on the
pretense of sparing me a twinge or two.
-Robert Browning (poet)
I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They
lived next to each other in separate cages for several months before I
used one as a heart donor. When we put him to sleep in his cage in
preparation for the operation, he chattered and cried incessantly. We
attached no significance to this, but it must have made a great
impression on his companion, for when we removed the body to the
operating room, the other chimp wept bitterly and was inconsolable for
days. The incident made a deep impression on me. I vowed never again to
experiment with such sensitive creatures."
-Christian Barnard
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is
concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and
organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of
pain and fear.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
When I was 12, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was
laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill
this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.
-Marv Levy
The person who kills for fun is announcing that, could he get away with
it, he'd kill you for fun. Your...life may be of no consequence to
anyone else but is invaluable to you because it's the only one you've
got. Exactly the same is true of each individual deer, hare, rabbit,
fox, fish, pheasant and butterfly. Humans should enjoy their own lives,
not taking others'. "
-Brigid Brophy
There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with
a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
-Isaac Bashevis Singer
Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric
story.
-Mary Tyler Moore
Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we
have no right to do it. A woman gains status when she refuses to see
anything killed to be put on her back. Then she's truly beautiful.
-Doris Day
Fur used to turn heads, now it turns stomachs.
-Rue McClanahan
Human beings are the only animals of which I am throughly and cravenly
afraid.
-George Bernard Shaw
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
You ask people why they have deer heads on the wall. They always say,
Because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother's
attractive, but I have photographs of her.
-Ellen DeGeneres
Animals are God's creatures, not human property, nor utilities, nor
resources, nor commodities, but precious beings in God's sight.
...Christians whose eyes are fixed on the awfulness of crucifixion are
in a special position to understand the awfulness of innocent
suffering. The Cross of Christ is God's absolute identification with
the weak, the powerless, and the vulnerable, but most of all with
unprotected, undefended, innocent suffering.
-Rev. Andrew Linzey
Prince Charming is very nice and very honest and very confident in who
he is and funny and knows how to have a kick-ass fun time. Is willing
to melt away so that nothing else exists in the world except himself
and his princess and loves food and cats and every life form except
human beings which is not necessary.
-Alicia Silverstone
How can you eat anything with eyes?
-Will Kellogg
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
Compassion is the foundation of everything positive, everything good.
If you carry the power of compassion to the marketplace and the dinner
table, you can make your life really count.
-Rue McClanahan
Animals are my friends-and I don't eat my friends.
-George Bernard Shaw
As custodians of the planet it is our responsibility to deal with all
species with kindness, love and compassion. That these animals suffer
through human cruelty is beyond understanding. Please help to stop this
madness.
-Richard Gere
My respect and empathy towards animals includes sea dwellers too from
dolphins to fish to lobsters. So, of course, I wouldn't dream of eating
them.
-Alexandra Paul
I haven't bought any leather articles for a very long time. My ideal is
to be able to avoid all animal products, in food as well as clothing.
-Martina Navratilova
If you could see or feel the suffering you wouldn't think twice. Give
back life. Don't eat meat.
-Kim Basinger
I grew up in cattle country-that's why I became a vegetarian. Meat
stinks, for the animals, the environment, and your health.
-K.D. Lang
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
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
Thier were no Slaughterhouses in the Garden of Eden.
-Unknown
The medical argument for animal testing doesn't stand up. Even if it
did, I don't think we should kill other species. We think we're so much
better; I'm not sure we are. I tell people, We've beaten into
submission every animal on the face of the Earth, so we are the clear
winners of whatever battle is going on between the species. Couldn't we
be generous? I really do think it's time to get nice. No need to keep
beating up on them. I think we've got to show that we're kind.
-Paul McCartney
I have reached zero tolerance for the cruelty against our animal
brothers. If we are to nuture our culture, let's begin with the animals
who have been nothing but our beasts of burden for so long.
-Riki Rockett
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
Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and
are called medical research.
-George Bernard Shaw
I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that
are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it
inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it,
and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking
further.
-Mark Twain
What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is
not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?
-Jeremy Bentham
Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the distinguishing vices of low and
base minds. Wherever it is found, it is a certain mark of ignorance and
meanness; a mark which all the external advantages of wealth,
splendour, and nobility, cannot obliterate. It is consistent neither
with learning nor true civility.
-William Jones
This is the sum of duty: do naught to others which if done to thee,
would cause thee pain.
-Mahabharata
If man is not to stifle his human feelings, he must practice kindness
towards animals, for he who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in
his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment
of animals.
-Immanuel Kant
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the
way its animals are treated.
-Mohandas Gandhi
He who harms animals has not understood or renounced deeds of sin ...
Those whose minds are at peace and who are free from passions do not
desire to live at the expense of others.
-Acharanga Sutra
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 Singer
I abhor vivisection. It should at least be curbed. Better, it should be
abolished. I know of no achievement through vivisection, no scientific
discovery, that could not have been obtained without such barbarism and
cruelty. The whole thing is evil.
-Charles Mayo (founder of the Mayo Clinic)
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 D. Barnard, M.D
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
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
Can you really ask what reason Pythagoras had for abstaining from
flesh? For my part I rather wonder both by what accident and in what
state of soul or mind the first man did so, touched his mouth to gore
and brought his lips to the flesh of a dead creature, he who set forth
tables of dead, stale bodies and ventured to call food and nourishment
the parts that had little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived.
How could his eyes endure the slaughter when throats were slit and
hides flayed and limbs torn from limb? How could his nose endure the
stench? How was it that the pollution did not turn away his taste,
which made contact with the sores of others and sucked juices and
serums from mortal wounds? It is certainly not lions and wolves that we
eat out of self-defense; on the contrary, we ignore these and slaughter
harmless,tame creatures without stings or teeth to harm us, creatures
that, I swear, Nature appears to have produced for the sake of their
beauty and grace. But nothing abashed us, not the flower-like like
tinting of the flesh, not the persuasiveness of the harmonious voice,
not the cleanliness of their habits or the unusual intelligence that
may be found in the poor wretches. No, for the sake of a little flesh
we deprive them of sun, of light, of the duration of life to which they
are entitled by birth and being.
-Plutarch
A righteous man takes care of his beast, but the heart of the wicked is
merciless.
-Proverbs 12:10
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
I spoke often in Congress against the war in Vietnam. And commented on
congress persons hiding from the reality of war by saying 'many eat the
meat but few go to the slaughterhouse'. I said it so often I became a
vegetarian.
-Rep. Andrew Jacobs
For many years the media have been afraid of the Goliath power of the
meat industry. (But David is coming!)
-Pegeen Fitzgerald
Some people are still going to want to eat meat.. we do agree though
that vegetarianism is a healthier diet.
-David Stroud of the American Meat Institute
We should live in harmony with Earth not conquer it.. or the animals.
The other members of the National Football League say I'm in the
minority.. but they are. A majority of the world is vegetarian.
-Former Steelers football Player Glenn Scolnick
I do not believe that any of the suffering I have caused to laboratory
animals has helped humanity in the slightest.
-Richard Ryder
It is a surprisingly close progression from hunting animals to hunting
and torturing people.. catching and lynching blacks or smoking out Jews
during the Holocaust.
-Aviva Cantor
More and more we realize that the vegetarian diet is a good idea.
-Dr. Edward Martin
Thousands of animals(now billions) are butchered every day without a
shadow of remorse. It cries vengeance upon all the human race.
-Romain Rolland
Since visiting the abatoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat.
-Vincent Van Gogh
Arson and cruelty to animals are 2 of 3 childhood warning signs
regarding the potential to be a serial killer.(To no longer objectify
living beings by ceasing hunting and fishing takes one l step further
away from the murder of humans.)
-John Douglas
May those who oppose capital punishment for humans extend that
protection to animals as well . May those who oppose germ and other
biological warfare work to end the unconscious biological warfare
unwittingly waged on those who eat animal products. Those who are
prolife would logically become vegetarian. Those who are prochoice
would not want to impose their wills upon the body of a cow, sheep or
pig.
-Unknown
May all that have life be delivered from suffering.
-Buddha
I went snorkeling and noticed how gently the fish welcomed us into
their world.. as compared to the violence with which we welcomed them
into ours. I became a vegetarian.
-Syndee Brinkman
Martin Luther King taught us all nonviolence. I was told to extend
nonviolence to the mother and her calf.
-Dick Gregory
In all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we
cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses.
-H.G. Wells from Utopia
Whenever we cause suffering or death to any other being, we cause
suffering to the Great Life Force.
-Shik Po Chih
He is a heavy eater of beef. Me thinks it doth harm to his wit.
-Shakespeare in "Twelfth Night"
The USDA recommendation of 2 servings of meat per day seems like too
much.
-Diane Rehm
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
I would not want to get to know a pig very well if I intended to eat
him.
-Pat Leigh
The awful cruelty and terror to which tens of thousands of animals
killed for human food are subjected in traveling long distances by ship
and rail and road to the slaughterhouses of the world. God disapproves
of all cruelty.. whether to man or beast. The occupation of
slaughtering animals is brutalising to those who are required to do the
work.... I believe this matter is well worthy of the serious
consideration of Christian leaders.
-Mrs. Booth and General Bramwell Booth of the Salva
Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
40 years ago on the set of Gunsmoke I read the book The Holy Science.
Since then I have not eaten meat.
-Dennis Weaver
Cruelty to animals can become violence to humans.
-Ali MacGraw
Hunters are to the arms industry what smokers are to the tobacco
industry. Smokers get a nicotine rush. Hunters get an adrenalin rush
from killing a living being.
-Jim R
Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them the higher food
yield as a solution to world hunger.
-John Denver
The world's environment can no longer handle beef.
-Jeremy Rifkin of Beyond Beef
Oprah has power because Oprah is believable. People do not believe the
beef industry. Shouldn't we be more concerned about the first amendment
rather than protecting powerful agribusiness?
-Morton Downey
Once I was fishing and caught the hook in the fish's eye. That was the
last time I ate a killed creature .
-Janet Barkas
Humans are the only hunters who kill when not hungry.
-Steven Spielberg
One day the world will look upon research upon animals as it now looks
upon research on human beings.
-Leonardo Da Vinci
I'm stopped. I'll never eat another burger.
-Oprah Winfrey
We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred
trust to us from our heavenly Father. They are dumb and cannot speak
for themselves.
-Harriet Beecher Stowe
One is dearest to God who has no enemies among the living beings, who
is nonviolent to all creatures.
-Bhagavad Gita
To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.
-Buddha
Meat is dirty. I wouldn't touch a hot dog without a condom on it.
-Bill Maher
I'm picky when it comes to food-as long as there's no meat in it.
-Orlando Bloom
People who wear fur coats and get paint on them? F--- 'em. It may not
be pleasant, but they've contributed to something so awful that I feel
like it's justified.
-Casey Affleck
I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because
I hate plants.
-A. Whitney Brown
I've always felt that animals are the purest spirits in the world. They
don't fake or hide their feelings, and they are the most loyal
creatures on Earth. And somehow we humans think we're smarter - what a
joke.
-Pink
You need to hunt something that can shoot back at you to really
classify yourself as a hunter. You need to understand the feeling of
what it's like to go into the field and know your opposition can take
you out. Not just go out there and shoot Bambi.
-Gov. Jesse Ventura
In some roles I have to wear fur, and I always make sure it's fake,
like in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. Faux fur is great
because it shows people that faux can look fabulous.
-Kristen Johnston
People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's
not as bad as mass animal death in a factory.
-Richard Gere
Vegetarianism is a way of living consciously on the planet.
-Amy Smart
"I'm 23 now, and I've grown into this woman. I feel sexy and more
mature. I wanted these inside changes to be reflected in both my look
and music. I am a vegan now, and it was a conscious decision. I studied
a lot about African culture and health and the best way to take care of
the body. I really wanted to be healthy. At first I was just trying to
challenge myself; I thought it was a phase and that I would grow out of
it, but it wasn't. I found out a lot about the body and what [hormones]
they put in meat. My taste buds started changing, and I didn't crave
[meat and dairy products] anymore."
-Brandy
I love to cook. Very healthy eating. ..." Twain also forgoes meat,
dairy, and eggs. "Nothing," she declares, "that had to die." Tv Guide
-Shania Twain
Right now, I'm pro-leave beef alone. Big shout-out to all the
vegetarians who don't want beef! (Us Weekly)
-Ja Rule
I gave up meat when I was twelve. & One day I was cutting up a chicken
for my mom, and I hit a tumor with the knife. There was [pus] and blood
all over the place. That was enough for me.
-Josh Hartnett
Being vegan helped me realize I can say and do what I believe is right.
That's powerful.
-Alicia Silverstone
The fur industry butchers animals and pollutes our environment. I could
never wear fur.
-Fernanda Tavares
I think and speak clearer since I cut the dairy out. I can breathe
better and perform at a better rate, and my voice is clearer. I can
explore different things with my voice that I couldn't do because of my
meat and dairy ingestion. I am proud and blessed to be a vegetarian,
everything became clear.
-Common
ahimsa
In the slaughterhouse or 'dressing plant' turkeys are suspended by
their legs from a conveyor belt, transported to a buzz saw which cuts
off their heads, and are then dropped into boiling water to remove
their plumage. If the buzz saw misses, the birds are boiled alive.
-in the book Animal Liberation-.
*
The fact that Hitler had a nose doesn't mean we're going to cut our
noses off. (in reference to the question of
Hitler's vegetarian diet).
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Boycott Air Canada, Greyhound, and
all Canadian tourism until
sealclubbing is banned.
Sheen video ... graphic
http://seashepherd.org/seals/seals.html
Stewart video on seal clubbing... graphic
http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/Prefs.asp?video=martha
ahimsa
"In just a few weeks, the boats will arrive, and the cries of the baby
seals will be those of terror and agony as sealers clamber onto the ice
with their clubs and guns. The pristine white of the ice will be
stained with the blood of these baby seals, bludgeoned and shot to
death so the sealers can sell their skins to the fur industry..... We
can prevent this."
ahimsa
who can strap an unanesthetized dog on a table, cut his vocal
cords, and spend an interesting day - or week- slowly eviscerating
and dismembering him. I suppose that the researchers do not deny this
thimselves -- they claim that despite the wholesale bloody
experimentation on animals, the only real proof of the drugs found by
the chemists or the operating techniques suggested by the
experimentation of animals, must be in the end verified by trying them
on human subjects.
-Clare Booth Luce: playwright, politician, and wife of the
founder of Time Magazine-.
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ahimsa
When a chicken is a male, he is tossed into a barrel
or an eviscerator, a tub full of swirling knives.
In the 1970's, 320 million chickens were slaughtered annually.
-Steve Cornell-
ahimsa
in restaurants in which they dine on the rear ends of pigs,
the rotting muscles of dead cows, the decomposing thighs of chickens,
and the cadavers of fishes."
-O Anna Niemus-
ahimsa
When chickens get sick do they eat human soup?
ahimsa
farm... and described to me the daily horrors
including a cow was split up the middle as she slipped on mud
and were left legs went one way and her right ones another
"Outside a church kitchen for the homeless was a sign
Please don't feed the pigeons. The kitchen manager
thought God's love was circumscribed and intended only
for human beings."
O Anna Niemus
ahimsa
"Only control freaks mow lawns.
ahimsa
"The bay was sunlit and filled with boats, many of them just
returned from early dawn trips to the open sea. Fish that had
a few hours before been swimming in the water now lay on the boat
decks with glassy eyes, wounded mouths, bloodstained scales."Tom Regan:
"The bay was sunlit and filled with boats, many of them just
returned from early dawn trips to the open sea. Fish that had
a few hours before been swimming in the water now lay on the boat
decks with glassy eyes, wounded mouths, bloodstained scales."
ahimsa
themselves civilized should look
with disdain on the unnecessary,
unnatural, and unhealthy practice of subjecting innocent animals, like
cows,
pigs, and sheep, to odious torture and death simply
because "they taste good". The
carnivorous animals of the wild kill for
survival. Man is the only animal that destroys all other species, and
even his
own, for pleasure and greed. We then have the audacity to state that we
are the
highest order of animal life simply because
our intelligence is greater than that of other animals..... people who
derive pleasure
from the death of other animals can by no
means work for Universal Peace.
-Dudley Giehl- author of
Vegetarianism: A Way Of Life
ahimsa
I have not eaten meat for 6 weeks and I've lost 28 pounds.
ahimsa
the world can begin by making their
dinner plates nonviolent.
-ethics teacher Marvin Katz-
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Arthur Train has said courts are places
in which judges dispense with justice.
In the same way, slaughterhouses
are places in which they dispense
with mercy.
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creiophilic bacteria grow in meat in
the freezer
thermophilic bacteria grow in meat
in the oven
colon bacteria (ecoli) grow in defrosted
meat by the billions
ahimsa
animal defecating everywhere in terror
... it is intrinsic to all animal corpses, since all have intestinal
tracts... and is very different from the occasional
handling contamination of vegetables
*
Adam R would not let him drive into
the driveway until
all the rain-evicted
earthworms were out of
harm's way
*
Bill Clinton on a tv network on March 24:
Before my heart attack I never
met a hamburg I didn't like
*
Scott Turow: Every courtroom has
the odor of an abbatoir
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ahimsa
people have started looking at these big hunks of bloody meat on their
plates, you know, and wondering what on earth they think they're doing.
ahimsa
As when a vultur on Imaus bred,
Whose snowy ridge the roving Tartar bounds,
Dislodging from a region scarce of prey
To gorge the flesh of lambs or yeanling kids,
Prof. Robert S. Mendelsohn, MD, 1986, in the video Hidden Crimes:
"The reason I am against animal research is that it doesn't work. It
has no scientific value. One cannot extrapolate the results of animal
research to human beings and every good scientist knows that. Doctors
themselves will admit that animal experimentation is no good. For
example, if you say to the doctors, these experiments on animals show
that this drug is dangerous, it can cause cancer, it can cause all
kinds of side effects. The doctors will say, oh that's just animal
experimentation. You can't extrapolate that to human beings. They
themselves admit that it's no good. As far as I am concerned since
animal experiments have no validity and since they lead to quackery
inside medicine, I have to be opposed to quackery and therefore I have
to be opposed to the animal experiments as a SCIENTIST. Regardless of
what my moral feelings are about animals." - Prof. Robert S.
Mendelsohn, MD, 1986, in the video Hidden Crimes
ahimsa
I don't eat meat," and my friend looked at me like I was crazy because
I had just eaten this hot dog. My friend and I got outside of the
leather store and she said, "Why did you lie to that woman?" I said, "I
didn't lie to her; I will never eat meat again."
.. full interview at veganstreet.com