If there would come a voice from God saying, 'I'm against vegetarianism!' I would say, 'Well, I am for it!' This is how strongly I feel in this regard.
We have found ways. . . to torture and maim animals and make their lives a misery, almost a living hell. . . in the multinational food industry. . . and in laboratories where often the most important thing being researched is the latest in lipstick or face cream.
The distinction between meat and other animal products is total nonsense. Vegetarianism is a morally incoherent position. If you regard animals as members of the moral community, you really don’t have a choice but to go vegan.
I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to support any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life
I know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten, and who never has a chance to be a real being, is unhealthy. It's like. . . you're just eating misery. You're eating a bitter life.
Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal.
I can't count the times that upon telling someone I am vegetarian, he or she responded by pointing out an inconsistency in my lifestyle or trying to find a flaw in an argument I never made. (I have often felt that my vegetarianism matters more to such people than it does to me. )
He who has renounced all violence towards all living beings, weak or strong, who neither kills nor causes others to kill - him I do call a holy man.
Vegetarianism is a healthier diet.
The steam of meat darkens the light of the spirit. . . One hardly can have virtue when one enjoys meat meals and feasts.
One who kill, own life will be shortened; One who harms, will be injured even more
When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.
If you declare that you are naturally designed for such a diet, then first kill for yourself what you want to eat. Do it, however, only through your own resources, unaided by cleaver or cudgel or any kind of ax
We are all God's creatures-that we pray to God for mercy and justice while we continue to eat the flesh of animals that are slaughtered on our account is not consistent.
Vegetarianism is a good idea.
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.
I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.
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.
Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.
Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.