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

Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. – Author unknown

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

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