#vegeta

Ethically they had arrived at the conclusion that man's supremacy over lower animals meant not that the former should prey upon the latter, but that the higher should protect the lower, and that there should be mutual aid between the two as between man and man. They had also brought out the truth that man eats not for enjoyment but to live. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#ethics

When I was nine, I had a babysitter who didn't want to hurt anything. She put it just like that when I asked her why she wasn't having chicken with my older brother and me: "I don't want to hurt anything." [...] What our babysitter said made sense to me, not only because it seemed true, but because it was the extension to food of everything my parents had taught me. We don't hurt family members. We don't hurt friends or strangers. We don't even hurt upholstered furniture. My not having thought to include animals in that list didn't make them the exceptions to it. It just made me a child, ignorant of the world's workings. Until I wasn't. At which point I had to change my life. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#change

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, the whole world would be vegetarian. ↗

— Linda McCartney

#beatles #dogs #veganism #vegetarianism #inspirational

If slaughterhouses had glass walls the whole world would be vegetarian. ↗

— Linda McCartney

#had #slaughterhouses #vegetarian #walls #whole

We were a savage little lot, Liverpool kids, not pacifist or vegetarian or anything. But I feel I've gone beyond that, and that it was immature to be so prejudiced and believe in all the stereotypes. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#believe #beyond #feel #gone #i

But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#kid #know #thought #vegetarian #would

So, if I'm cooking, I'll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#i #kind #making #nice #salad

Don't drink at all, don't smoke, you must exercise and eat vegetables and fruit. ↗

— Robert Mugabe

#eat #exercise #fruit #must #smoke

Physiology is the science which treats of the properties of organic bodies, animal and vegetable, of the phenomena they present, and of the laws which govern their actions. Inorganic substances are the objects of other sciences, - physics and chemistry. ↗

— Johannes P. Muller

#animal #bodies #chemistry #govern #inorganic

Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#air pollution #approximately #emission #enforcing #go