#vegeta

Something I've never been able to adapt to, to understand is how they can lavish such love and care on the animals and then see them sold for slaughter. I don't dare say anything about it, though. Richard and his friends would be down on me in a flash. But there's some kind of cold, unfeeling contradiction in that business. ↗

— Robert James Waller

#vegetarianism #business

The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but "Can they suffer? ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

#moral #vegetarian #morals

I grew up a vegetarian. Then, because I grew up in the states, I started slowly eating meat. First it was bologna sandwiches, or pepperoni on pizza. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#eating #first #grew #i #meat

I love seafood. I'm not a vegetarian but I'm probably a pescetarian. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#i love #love #probably #seafood #vegetarian

Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion. ↗

— Antoine Lavoisier

#creator #instrument #motion #nature #set

Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace. ↗

— River Phoenix

#peace #perfection #vegetarianism

An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh. ↗

— Will Rogers

#cry #laugh #make #never #onion

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#babies #buddhists #cannibalism #disgust #feed

My favorite hobby is being alone. I like to be alone. I also like dancing, fishing, playing poker sometimes and vegetable gardening - corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, I have a big garden every year. ↗

— Emanuel Steward

#also #being #being alone #big #corn

When I was 8 years old, my brother was making the noises of the animals I was eating, so I decided to go vegetarian. Then I would give up because I was 8. ↗

— Alicia Silverstone

#brother #decided #eating #give #go