”The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated..
I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man"
-- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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It does take a little work to be a vegetarian& but it's so worth it, oh it's so worth it!
Hedren, Tippi
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Right now, I'm pro-leave beef alone. Big shout-out to all the vegetarians who don't want beef! (Us Weekly)
Rule, Ja
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Vegetarians always ask about getting enough protein. But I don't know any nutrition expert who can plan a diet of natural foods resulting in a protein deficiency, so long as you're not deficient in calories. You need only 5 or 6 percent of total calories in protein... and it is practically impossible to get below 9 percent in ordinary diets.
Pritikin, Nathan
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"I'm 23 now, and I've grown into this woman. I feel sexy and more mature. I wanted these inside changes to be reflected in both my look and music. I am a vegan now, and it was a conscious decision. I studied a lot about African culture and health and the best way to take care of the body. I really wanted to be healthy. At first I was just trying to challenge myself; I thought it was a phase and that I would grow out of it, but it wasn't. I found out a lot about the body and what [hormones] they put in meat. My taste buds started changing, and I didn't crave [meat and dairy products] anymore."
Brandy
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40 years ago on the set of Gunsmoke I read the book The Holy Science. Since then I have not eaten meat.
Weaver, Dennis
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Dr. Dolittle is a reluctant but dedicated vegetarian. Being around all the animals in the film made me one too.
Eggar, Samantha
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For Folks Who Eat (re cod liver oil, liver etc.) Eating liver out of a cow's body is like eating the filter out of a car.
Gregory, Dick
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herself a vegetarian because of Danny DeVito's example, star of Taxi, asked by Larry King.. "Is that true... that Danny DeVito won't harm cockroaches on the set of Taxi?" replied "No Larry and he doesn't eat them either".
Henner, Mary Lou
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I don't eat meat, fish, or eggs. I was never a big meat-eater, but I've got more energy now," says Shania, who hasn't eaten an animal since she married longtime vegetarian (and record producer) Mutt Lange.
Twain, Shania
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I grew up in cattle country-that's why I became a vegetarian. Meat stinks, for the animals, the environment, and your health.
Lang, K.D.
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I love to cook. Very healthy eating. ..." Twain also forgoes meat, dairy, and eggs. "Nothing," she declares, "that had to die." Tv Guide
Twain, Shania
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I sometimes think, would I drink the milk from the breast of a woman I don't know? No. So I think, why would I drink it from a cow.
Aoki, Devon
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I take vitamins daily, but just the bare essentials not what you'd call supplements. I try to stick to a vegan diet heavy on fruit, vegetables, tofu, and other soy products.
Eastwood, Clint
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I'm picky when it comes to food-as long as there's no meat in it.
Bloom, Orlando
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It may be vain to ask why the imagination will not be reconciled to flesh and fat. I am satisfied that it is not. Is it not a reproach that man is a carnivorous animal? True, he can and does live, in a great measure, by preying on other animals; but this is a miserable way - as anyone who will go to snaring rabbits, or slaughtering lambs, may learn - and he will be regarded as a benefactor of his race who shall teach man to confine himself to a more innocent and wholesome diet.
Thoreau, Henry David
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I've been vegan for about 10 and a half years. It's been all good. I'm obviously much healthier
Harrelson, Woody
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Kids nowadays...tend to go overboard on protein --- something I believe to be totally unnecsssary...I state in my formula for basic good eating: Eat about one gram of protein for every two pounds of body weight.
Schwarzenegger, Arnold
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My wife actually got worried about my drinking so much regular milk, you know, so she got me into rice milk and now soy milk, which I greatly enjoy. A soy mocha's a fine thing.
Nelson, Willie
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Nothing’s changed my life more. I feel better about myself as a person, being conscious and responsible for my actions and I lost weight and my skin cleared up and I got bright eyes and I just became stronger and healthier and happier. Can’t think of anything better in the world to be but be vegan.
Silverstone, Alicia
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on being sued by Amarillo cattle ranchers for saying: "I'm stopped. I'll never eat another burger".
Winfrey, Oprah
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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.
Thoreau, Henry David
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The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak would finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.
Shaw, George Bernard
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The closer you can live to being a vegetarian the better.
Player, Gary
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The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
Darwin, Charles
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There exists a substantial body of competent and reliable scientific evidence that eating eggs increases the risk of heart attacks or heart disease....This evidence is systematic, consistent, strong, and congruent.
Barnes, Ernest G.
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Vegetarianism, that is me. I don't eat meat. It's been over 10 years. Actually it's been 11 and a half years and I feel good and I feel like I look good and I have energy and you have to look at what you're putting in your body. I eat vegetables and I eat grain and I take care of myself and I don't think I look that bad, do I?
Bingham, Tracy
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It used to be if a bird had a severe contamination, you condemned the sucker. But nowadays my own supervising inspector says, There can be no more bad birds on your tally. You've had to many.
Unknown
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Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal.
Newkirk, Ingrid
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A change in our diet could change our destiny.
Jetha, Akbarali
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A dead cow or sheep lying in the pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of carcass dressed and hung up in a butchers stall passes as food.
Kellogg, Dr. John H.
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A Univ of NC study linked hot dogs to childhood leukemia.
Wolff, Kathy
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All wholesome food is caught without a net or a trap.
Blake, William
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An important fact to remember is that all natural diets, including purely vegetarian diets without a hint of dairy products, contain amounts of calcium that are above the treshold for meeting your nutritional needs....In fact, calcium deficiency caused by an insufficient amount if calcium in the diet is not known to occur in humans.
McDougall, John
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Animals are becoming more diseased and it will not be long until animal food will be discarded by many besides Seventh-day Adventists. Foods that are healthful and life sustaining are to be prepared, so that men and women will not need to eat meat.
White, Ellen
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As happened with tobacco, health warnings about meat eating are multiplying, and awareness of the environmental effects of meat production is rising. Just as cigarettes lost their allure, meat is losing its social cachet in some countries. Food marketers in the United Kingdom estimate that 2 million people in that country are strict vegetarians. More important, the number of people limiting meat in their diets is rising rapidly. An estimated 6 million people in the United Kingdom dine on meatless meals most of the time.
Durning, Alan B. & Brough, Holly B.
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Cow's milk is not suited for human consumption. Milk causes constipation, biliousness, coated tongue, headache, and these are the symptoms of intestinal auto-intoxication.
Kloss, Jethro
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Disease is due to lack of awareness whereas ageing is due to our faulty diet.
Jetha, Akbarali
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Everything we need to feed ourselves and to restore and please us is abundantly provided in the inexhaustible store of Nature. … In short our orchards offer all the delights imaginable while the slaughter houses and butchers are full of congealed blood and abominable stench.
Ray, John
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Excessive animal protein is at the core of many chronic diseases.
Campbell, T. Colin
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I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live. I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world - if we are superior to it
Gandhi, Mahatma
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I don't eat chicken anymore. I won't eat it. I won't allow it in my house.
Leonard, Rodney
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I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open and put them on cholesterol-lowering drugs for the rest of their lives.
Ornish, Dr. Dean
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I have run into patients who undergo marked alterations in behavior patterns when ingesting dairy products, and whose behavior is totally changed by withholding them.
Murray, Dr. John J.
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I know hundreds of people who have spent years and thousands of dollars on tests looking for ulcers or spastic bowels. I tell them to lay off all dairy products for two weeks. The results are usually so striking that it changes thier lives.
Jacobs, David
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I no longer recommend dairy products...there was a time when cow's milk was considered very desirable. But research along with clinical experience has forced doctors and nutritionists to rethink this recommendation.'
Spock, Dr. Benjamin
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I was raised on a dairy farm and ate plenty of meat and eggs until about twenty years ago. I started doing nutritional research, and a decade or so after that my family made some major dietary changes. I'm just paying attention to what the data are telling me. The scientific evidence came first.
Campbell, T. Colin
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I would expect an extremely high percentage of the chickens would test positive. Our poultry industry clients wouldn't like that.
Shelton, Brian
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If you step back and look at the data, the optimum amount of red meat you eat should be zero.
Willet, Dr. Walter
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I'm ashamed to even let people know I am a Usda inspector. There are thousands of diseased and unwholesome birds going right on down the line.
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In every respect, vegans appear to enjoy equal or better health in comparison to both vegetarians and non-vegetarians.
Campbell, T. Colin
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In the next 10 to 15 years, one of the things you’re bound to hear is that animal protein ... is one of the most toxic nutrients of all that can be considered. Risk for disease goes up dramatically when even a little animal protein is added to the diet.
Campbell, T. Colin
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Linda McCartney sausages were my favourite. They're much better than eating real sausages and you don't have to contemplate half way through exactly what's inside them. ... You can have them, a bit of fried bread, tinned tomatoes. Delicious.
Cowell, Simon
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More and more we realize that vegetarian diet is a good idea.
Martin, Edward
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Some people are still going to want to eat meat.. we do agree though that vegetarianism is a healthier diet.
Stroud, David
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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.
Barnard, Dr. Neal D.
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The body which is burdened with meat is afflicted with diseases. A moderate way of living makes the body healthier and stronger and cuts off the root of evil. The stream of meat darkens the light of the spirit. One can hardly have virtue if one enjoys meat and feasts.
Basil the Great, Saint
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The FDA still cannot honestly assure the public that milk is safe.
Weiss, Ted
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The recommended daily allowances are based on arbitrary, unscientific, and tainted standards (in a speech about his bill backed by 37 senators to reduce the power of the FDA)
Proxmire, William
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The standard four food groups are based on American agricultural lobbies. Why do we have a milk group? Because we have a National Dairy Council. Why do we have a meat group? Because we have an extremely powerful meat lobby.
Nestle, Marion
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The thousands of people who have suffered food poisoning after eating beef will, no doubt, appreciate that their beef was aesthetically acceptable, even though it made them ill. `Lovely to look at, dangerous to eat' is not a standard that is likely to help beef sales.
Foreman, Carol Tucker
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The transfatty acids (found in animal products and cooked oils) are a factor in breast cancer.
Martin, Edward
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There is no doubt, that man is not built to be a carnivorous animal. … What a sweet, pleasing and innocent sight is the spectacle of a table served that way and what a difference to a make up of fuming animal meat, slaughtered and dead! Man in no way has the constitution of a carnivorous being. Hunt and voracity are unnatural to him. Man has neither the sharp pointed teeth or claws to slaughter his prey. On the contrary his hands are made to pick fruits, berries and vegetables and teeth appropriate to chew them
Ray, John
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There is strong medical evidence that complete freedom from eating animal flesh or cow's milk products is a gateway to optimal nutritional health.
Klaper, Michael
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There’s no reason to drink cow’s milk at any time in your life. It was designed for calves, not humans, and we should all stop drinking it today.
Oski, Dr. Frank
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To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.
Buddha
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To give a child animal products is a form of child abuse. (child's diabetes related to cows' milk.) (His book Food For Life cites 300 dietary studies.)
Barnard, Dr. Neal D.
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Vegetarian wrestlers who do not work out lose their muscle much more slowly than nonvegetarians.
wrestler, Olympic
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Vegetarians have the best diet. They have the lowest rates of coronary disease of any group in the country....Some people scoff at vegetarians, but they have a fraction of our heart attack rate and they have only 40 percent of our cancer rate. They outlive other men by about six years now.
Castelli, Dr. William
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We are basically a vegetarian species and should be eating a wide variety of plant food and minimizing our intake of animal foods. study found a close correlation between meat consumption and heart disease and cancer.
Campbell, T. Colin
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We have built slaughter houses for animals and hospitals for ourselves.
Jetha, Akbarali
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What we have come to consider as "normal" illnesses of aging are really not normal. In fact, these findings indicate that the vast majority, perhaps 80 to 90%of all cancers, cardiovascular diseases, and other forms of degenerative illness can be prevented, at least until very old age, simply by adopting a plant-based diet.
Campbell, T. Colin
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When we kill the animals to eat them, they end up killing us because their flesh, which contains cholesterol and saturated fat, was never intended for human beings.
Roberts, Dr. William C.
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Your choice of diet can influence your long term health prospects more than any other action you might take.
Koop, C. Everett
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When you see the golden arches you are probally on your way to the pearly gates.
Castelli, Dr. William
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As soon as I realized that I didn't need meat to survive or to be in good health, I began to see how forlorn it all is. If only we had a different mentality about the drama of the cowboy and the range and all the rest of it. It's a very romantic notion, an entrenched part of American culture, but I've seen, for example, pigs waiting to be slaughtered, and their hysteria and panic was something I shall never forget.
Leachman, Cloris
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A reduction in beef and other meat consumption is the most potent single act you can take to halt the destruction of our environment and preserve our natural resources. Our choices do matter. What's healthiest for each of us personally is also healthiest for the life support system of our precious, but wounded planet.
Robbins, John
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A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.
Tolstoy, Leo
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As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.
Pythagoras
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It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living by it's purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.
Einstein, Albert
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Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of survival for life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
Einstein, Albert
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Socrates: Would this habit of eating animals not require that we slaughter animals that we knew as individuals, and in whose eyes we could gaze and see ourselves reflected, only a few hours before our meal? Glaucon: This habit would require that of us. Socrates: Wouldn't this [knowledge of our role in turning a being into a thing] hinder us in achieving happiness? Glaucon: It could so hinder us in our quest for happiness. Socrates: And, if we pursue this way of living, will we not have need to visit the doctor more often? Glaucon: We would have such need. Socrates: If we pursue our habit of eating animals, and if our neighbor follows a similar path, will we not have need to go to war against our neighbor to secure greater pasturage, because ours will not be enough to sustain us, and our neighbor will have a similar need to wage war on us for the same reason? Glaucon: We would be so compelled. Socrates: Would not these facts prevent us from achieving happiness, and therefore the conditions necessary to the building of a just society, if we pursue a desire to eat animals? Glaucon: Yes, they would so prevent us.
Socrates, quoted by Plato
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You're thinking I'm one of those wise-ass California vegetarians who is going to tell you that eating a few strips of bacon is bad for your health. I'm not. I say its a free country and you should be able to kill yourself at any rate you choose, as long as your cold dead body is not blocking my driveway.
Adams, Scott
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100,000 cows in the U.S. are alive at night and dead in the morning. These cows on the ground are ground into feed, making their fellows not only carnivores but cannibals. Europe after Mad Cows' Disease has banned this practice. The U.S has not yet.
Lyman, Howard
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Americans consume, on average, 51 pounds of chicken every year, 15 pounds of turkey, 63 pounds of beef, 45 pounds of pork, 1 pound of veal, and 1 pound of lamb. 'More than ever,' reports our U.S. Department of Agriculture, 'we are a nation of meat eaters.' And now, with help from Dr. Atkins and his wonder diet, we have millions of consumers gorging themselves on nothing but flesh, one excess to correct their other excesses -- no thought whatever of taking their portion of meat even if we grant that meat production and the sufferings involved are necessary.
Scully, Matthew
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With each egg we eat we imprison a chicken 25 to 32 hours in a cage.
Margolis, Art
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... Insatiable, unfathomable, gluttony searches every land and every sea. Some animals it persecutes with snares and traps, with hunting nets, with hooks, sparing no sort of toil to obtain them . . . There is no peace allowed to any species of being . . . No wonder that with so discordant diet disease is ever varying. . . Count the cooks you will no longer wonder at the innumerable number of human maladies. … If these maxims are true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstaining from flesh foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have you in losing your cruelty? I merely deprive you of the food of lions and vultures ... We shall recover our sound reason only if we shall separate ourselves from the herd - the very fact of the approbation of the multitude is a proof of the unsoundness of the opinion or practice. Let us ask what is best, not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed. None is so near the gods as he who shows kindness.
Seneca, Lucius
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How long shall we weary heaven with petitions for superfluous luxuries, as though we had not at hand wherewithal to feed ourselves? How long shall we fill our plains with huge cities? How long shall the people slave for us unnecessarily? How long shall countless numbers of ships from every sea bring us provisions for the consumption of a single mouth? An ox is satisfied with the pasture of an acre or two; one wood suffices for several elephants. Man alone supports himself by the pillage of the whole earth and sea. What! Has Nature indeed given us so insatiable a stomach, while she has given us such insignificant bodies? No, it is not the hunger of our stomachs, but insatiable covetousness which costs so much. … In the simpler times there was no need of so large a supernumerary force of medical men, nor of so many surgical instruments or of so many boxes of drugs. Health was simple for a simple reason. Many dishes have induced many diseases. Note how vast a quantity of lives one stomach absorbs ...
Seneca, Lucius
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It appears that the first intention of the Maker was to have men live on a strictly vegetarian diet. The very earliest periods of Jewish history are marked with humanitarian conduct towards the lower animal kingdom...It is clearly established that the ancient Hebrews knew and perhaps were the first among men to know, that animals feel and suffer pain.
Glazer, Rabbi Simon
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Jews will move increasingly to vegetarianism out of their own deepening knowledge of what their tradition commands...Man's carnivorous nature is not taken for granted or praised in the fundamental teachings of Judaism...A whole galaxy of central rabbinic and spiritual leaders...has been affirming vegetarianism as the ultimate meaning of Jewish moral teaching.
Herzog, Rabbi Isaac ha-Levi
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The very people who shudder over the cruelty of the hunter are apt to forget that slaughter, in the grimmest sense of the word, is a process they entrust daily to the butcher; and that unlike the game of the forests, even the dumbest creatures of the slaughterhouse know what is in store for them.
Mumford, Lewis
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Think of me tonite, For that which you savor. Did it give you something real, or could you taste the pain of my death in its flavor?
Tolson, Wayne K.
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A mind of the calibre of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows.
Shaw, George Bernard
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I have been a vegetarian for about 10 years. And it really was due to the reading that I did. And they explain so that you understand why it's important for the planet's survival along with compassion for animals. It certainly made it much easier for me. I lost weight really fast. My mother died from cancer so this is all very personal to me. And I just would like the planet to be a better place. And I think you'll find a vegetarian diet to be really incredible these days.
Blair, Linda
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By becoming a vegetarian out of ethical concern for animals, one ceases to contribute to roughly 90 percent of all animal cruelty, abuse and killing in the United States.
Murti, Vasu
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Why do we make one reform topic a hobby and forget all others? Mercy, Prohibition, Vegetarianism, Woman's Suffrage and Peace would make Old Earth a paradise, and yet the majority advocate but one, if any, of these.
Neff, Flora T.
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The first time I ever entered a battery house I thought it was the entrance to Hell
Spalding, Violet
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There's so many vegetarian foods now that are available at the market . The same with drive-throughs. Now, a lot of them serve veggie burgers just like the restaurants are doing. So, it's really very easy.
Nealon, Kevin
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Objectification reduces sensitivity. Thus cows are called beef or head of cattle, pigs become pork, sheep mutton. The screams are muted.. and living creatures become plastic wrapped packages.
Fruitarian Network
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I brainwashed youngsters into doing wrong. I want to say sorry to children everywhere for selling out to concerns who make millions by murdering animals. ("Ronald McDonald" quit and publicly apologised).
Guiliano, Geoffrey
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Incidence of lung and colorectal cancer is lower in vegetarians than in nonvegetarians.
Am J Clin Nutr
Serum cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels are usually lower in vegetarians.
Am J Clin Nutr
Type 2 diabetes mellitus is less likely to be a cause of death in vegetarians than nonvegetarians.
Am J Clin Nutr
Vegetarian diets offer disease protection benefits because higher concentration of antioxidants such as vitamins C and E, carotenoids, and phytochemicals.
Am J Clin Nutr
Vegetarians have a lower incidence of hypertension than nonvegetarians.
Am J Clin Nutr
Vegan diets are appropriate for all stages of the life cycle, including during pregnancy and lactation.
Am J Clin Nutr
Vegetarian diets offer disease protection benefits because of their lower saturated fat, cholesterol, and animal protein content and often higher concentration of folate which reduces serum homocysteine levels.
Amer. Dietetic Assoc, Journ.
Vegetarian diets low in fat or saturated fat have been used successfully as part of comprehensive health programs to reverse severe coronary artery disease.
Amer. Med. Assoc, Journ
Breast cancer rates are lower in populations that consume plant-based diets.
American Cancer Society
Mortality from coronary artery disease is lower in vegetarians than in nonvegetarians.
British Medical Journal
Vegetarians often have lower mortality rates from several chronic degenerative diseases than do nonvegetarians.
British Medical Journal
The study measured testosterone levels in 696 Oxford University men. Of the study participants, 233 were vegan (ate no animal products) and 237 were vegetarian (ate milk and dairy products). The remaining 237 subjects were men who ate meat on most days of the week...vegans had higher testosterone levels than vegetarians and meat-eaters.
Britsh Journal of Cancer
Reduced colorectal cancer risk is associated with increased consumption of fiber, vegetables, and fruit.
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Significant athersclerosis is rare in peoples whose diet over the life span is predominantly vegetarian and low in calories, total lipids, saturated lipids and cholesterol.
Katz, Louis
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Drinking cow milk has been linked to iron-deficiency anemia in infants and children; it has been named as the cause of cramps and diarrhea in much of the World's population and the cause of multiple forms of allergies as well.
Oski, Dr. Frank
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I think the evidence is pretty clear. If you look at various characteristics of carnivores versus herbivores, it doesn't take a genius to see where humans line up.
Roberts, Dr. William C.
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Vegetarian diets have been successful in arresting coronary artery disease.
Am J Epidemiol.
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“Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.”
Lyric from a Roger Waters song which I believe he got from a letter, written by a man in prison who had been tortured.
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.”
Margaret Mead
(December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978)
You can make a difference. Change yourself.
Scientific research has shown that warm-blooded animals (this includes livestock) feel pain and the emotion of fear. In particular mammals, including food animals of this group, have brain structures that enable them to feel fear and suffering from pain, and it is likely that they suffer pain in the same way as humans.
Fear and pain are very strong causes of stress in livestock and stress affects the quality of meat obtained from this livestock. Pain is usually the effect of injury and suffering, which also affects the quality and value of meat from affected animals.
If you're a local or visitor to the Poconos and saw my truck tooling around town with this web site 'advertised' on it and Rocky hanging out the window
visit Doggles.com
I'll give you the short version in two sentences:
Stop eating anything that once had eyes, a beating heart and demonstrative feelings.
And Visit 
go there or any shelter near you in person and meet the homeless and if that doesn't move you, I'm sorry to tell you, but you're dead, inside.
Then on seeing those animals, with all the feelings you and I, well, I know have, realize that the ones we legally torture for food, meat, AKA Cows, Chickens, Pigs, share those SAME feelings .
IMAGINE BEING ONE OF THEM.
California has passed laws to lesson the torture, without asking people to give up eating meat. In other words, lesson the cruelty. I prefer to live longer, so I don't eat it at all, but it you must eat it, do you have to turn a blind eye to the mistreatment of those animals? If so, dead again. Maybe you'll get that the worse they are treated, the more bad chemicals they die with, and you eat.
That's simply put, but a fact I'll elaborate more on with another page, when I have time. Meanwhile on this link is a Google search on the topic. Lots of info on how eating that sh** is killing you too.
Food for thought.
FAQ:
Question:
"What do you think you are, some kind of crusader?"
Answer: Yea, right.
Learn what it takes to put that cheeseburger, pork chop, wing on in your mouth, then stay aware of what goes on before you bite.
Be a crusader. They can't talk. Eat alternatives, cheese, pasta, beans, veggie burgers, etc. Try one, they've come a long way. They taste great and don't clog your arteries and be patient, tastes change slowly.
Question: "But I like meat. I couldn't quit."
Answer: Eat less and less. It'll be that much less suffering you inflict and you'll live longer too.
Question: "What can I do"
Answer: Eat less animal. Zero is best. There are tons of alternatives. Educate yourself.
Click here for PETA's FREE Vegetarian/Vegan Starter Kit!
Here's another from the group Compassionate Action for Animals.
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