#vegetarian

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

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#glass #had #slaughterhouses #vegetarian #walls

Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace. ↗

— River Phoenix

#peace #perfection #vegetarianism

We all love animals. Why do we call some "pets" and others "dinner? ↗

— k.d. lang

#compassion-for-animals #healthy-diet #love-of-god #morality #respect

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

#medicine #sense #vegetarian #diet

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

Yet complicated people were getting wet - not only the shepherds. For instance, the piano-tuner was sopping. So was the vicar's wife. So were the lieutenant and the peevish damsels in his Battlesden car. Gallantry, charity, and art pursued their various missions, perspiring and muddy, while out on the slopes beyond them stood the eternal man and the eternal dog, guarding eternal sheep until the world is vegetarian. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#wet #art

Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#vegetarian #vegetarianism #change

The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to be eating death. There is a kind of gestalt-shift between the two positions which makes it hard to change, and hard to raise questions on the matter at all without becoming embattled. ↗

— Mary Midgley

#ethics #philosophy #vegetarian #vegetarianism #change