Vegetarianism

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. – Samuel Butler, Note-Books, 1912

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian. – Paul McCartney

Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay. – George Bernard Shaw

How can you eat anything with eyes? – Will Kellogg

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

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens. – Isaac Bashevis Singer, quoted in You Said a Mouthful edited by Ronald D. Fuchs

Vegetarianism is harmless enough though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness. – Robert Hutchison, address to the British Medical Association, 1930

For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

My perspective of veganism was most affected by learning that the veal calf is a by-product of dairying, and that in essence there is a slice of veal in every glass of what I had thought was an innocuous white liquid — milk. – Rynn Berry, quoted in Joanne Stepaniak, The Vegan Sourcebook, 1998

Nothing spoils lunch any quicker than a rogue meatball rampaging through your spaghetti. – Jim Davis, “Garfield” [Original context is not vegetarianism. —tε&#55

Vegetarians taste better. – Author Unknown

I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight. – Rita Rudner

Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classified as cannibals. – Finley Peter Dunne

Vegetarian: A person who eats only side dishes. – Gerald Lieberman

Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal. – Ingrid Newkirk

We all love animals. Why do we call some “pets” and others “dinner?” – k.d.lang

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants. – A. Whitney Brown

Millions of [the indigenous peoples of India] have lived to an advanced age, without having tasted of any thing that ever possessed life, and been wholly free from a chain of maladies, which have scourged every civilized nation on the globe… – “Food,” The Medical Adviser, and Guide to Health and Long Life, edited by Alex.

A mind of the calibre of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows. – George Bernard Shaw

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses. – George Bernard Shaw