I eat everything that nature voluntarily gives: fruits, vegetables, and the products of plants. But I ask you to spare me what animals are forced to surrender: meat, milk, and cheese. – Author unknown (Thanks, Eric)

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

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

Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness. – Bill Griffith, Griffith Observatory comic strip, 1977