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| A vegetarian is a person who won’t eat anything that can have children. ~ David Brenner |
| You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I’ll buy you a new car. ~ Harvey Diamond |
| Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. ~ Samuel Butler, |
| Dear Lord, I’ve been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us… a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird… a social being… capable of actual affection… nuzzling its young with almost human-like compassion. Anyway, it’s dead and we’re gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family. ~ Berke Breathed, |
| 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 |
| One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying himself with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle. ~ Henry David Thoreau |
| How can you eat anything with eyes? ~ Will Kellogg |
| The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. If beef is your idea of "real food for real people" you’d better live real close to a real good hospital. ~ Neal Barnard |
| Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant? I’m halfway through my fishburger and I realize, Oh my God. I could be eating a slow learner. ~ Lynda Montgomery |
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| Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends. ~ George Bernard Shaw |
| We don’t need to eat anyone who would run, swim, or fly away if he could. ~ James Cromwell |
| If you knew how meat was made, you’d probably lose your lunch. ~ k.d. lang |
| 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 |
| My situation is a solemn one. Life is offered to me on condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will contains directions for my funeral, which will be followed not by mourning coaches, but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a small traveling aquarium of live fish, all wearing white scarfs in honor of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures. ~ George Bernard Shaw |
| I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens. ~ Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| Vegetarianism is harmless enough though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness. ~ Robert Hutchison |
| Heart attacks… God’s revenge for eating his little animal friends. ~ Author Unknown |
| Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth. ~ Ambrose Bierce, |
| For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends. ~ Robert Brault |
| 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, |
| Nothing spoils lunch any quicker than a rogue meatball rampaging through your spaghetti. ~ Jim Davis, "Garfield" ( |
| Vegetarians taste better. ~ Author Unknown |
| Vegetarian – that’s an old Indian word meaning "lousy hunter." ~ Andy Rooney |
| Do vegetarians eat animal crackers? ~ Author Unknown |
| If we aren’t supposed to eat animals, then why are they made of meat? ~ 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 |
| In the strict scientific sense we all feed on death – even vegetarians. ~ Mr. Spock, |