The things you did with that cucumber in college does not make you a vegetarian. – Author unknown

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

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

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.