#vegetarian

Flesh eating is unprovoked murder. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#murder

Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals. ↗

— Finley Peter Dunne

#cannibals #classified #eat #like #look

But I'm also a vegetarian so there's another factor I guess. ↗

— Radha Mitchell

#another #factor #guess #i #vegetarian

I've never followed a vegan or vegetarian diet in the past, but I think I could do it. It would not be easy. I have worked with nutritionists who have said a vegan diet is not necessarily all positive for your health, because you need nutrients you only find in meats. I believe in a balanced diet. ↗

— Joel Robuchon

#balanced diet #because #believe #could #diet

Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better. ↗

— Nicholas Stern

#creates #diet #enormous #enormous pressure #gases

When I met my wife 20 plus years ago, she was a vegetarian, so I was the closest thing to the devil that she had ever met. ↗

— Michael Symon

#closest #closest thing #devil #ever #had

Therefore, vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of com-passion, which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world. ↗

— Morarji Desai

#animal #animal world #distinguishes #give #man

Sure! Why should any experts be the arbiters... That's like telling someone they can't be a vegetarian. ↗

— Virginia Johnson

#experts #like #should #someone #sure

Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening. Our sustenance now comes from misery. We know that if someone offers to show us a film on how our meat is produced, it will be a horror film. We perhaps know more than we care to admit, keeping it down in the dark places of our memory-- disavowed. When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#factory-farming #meat #science #veganism #vegetarianism

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, we would all be vegetarian. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#animal-rights #animal-welfare #vegan #vegetarian #cruelty