#vegetarian

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; but to do so is to renounce our manhood and shoulder a guilt which nothing justifies. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#humanitarian #vegan #vegetarian #life

Flesh eating is unprovoked murder. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#murder

The woman I am currently crazy about was a vegetarian for a year until I started dating her. As is the case with most vegetarians, she had never eaten properly prepared meat, only commercially packaged or otherwise abused flesh. ↗

— Steve Albini

#am #case #commercially #crazy #currently

I couldn't kill a chicken, I couldn't kill a cow - I was a vegetarian too at that time - so I thought, well what is there that I could kill? I couldn't kill this and I couldn't kill that. ↗

— Ellen Burstyn

#could #cow #i #kill #thought

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

I think that if a person wants to remain vegetarian, they're just going to have to go hungry. ↗

— Robert Atkins

#going #hungry #i #i think #just

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

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

#humor #vegetarian #vegetarianism #food

...Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable—the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think of sweetness; the matzo is the bread of our affliction. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#family #food #mythology #religion #stories