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Homer: You mean you're not going to eat BACON? Lisa: No, Dad.
Homer: Or SAUSAGE or PORK CHOPS or HAM? Lisa: Dad, those all come from the
same animal.
Homer: Oh, suuuuure, Lisa ... some magic animal. -- Homer and Lisa Simpson.
How can you eat anything with eyes! -- Will Kellogg.
I'm stopped. I'll never eat another burger. -- Oprah Winfrey.
Once I was fishing and caught the hook in the fish's eye. That was the last time I ate a killed
creature. -- Janet Barkas, editor of Grove Press.
The world's environment can no longer handle beef. -- Jeremy
Rifkin, author of Beyond Beef.
Many things made me become a vegan, among them the higher food yield as a solution
to world hunger. -- John Denver.
Cruelty to animals can become violence to humans. -- Ali MacGraw.
Compassion is the foundation of everything positive, everything good. If you carry the power
of compassion to the marketplace and the dinner table, you can make your life really count.
-- Rue McClanahan.
I grew up in cattle country--that's why I became a vegan. Meat stinks, for the
animals,
the environment, and your health. -- K.D. Lang.
All creation has the same right to life. -- Sun Bear and Jaya Bear.
I would not want to get to know a pig very well if I intended to eat him. -- Pat Leigh.
A human can 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. -- Leo Tolstoy.
Whenever we cause suffering or death to any other being, we cause suffering to the Great
Life Force. -- Shik Po Chih.
I went snorkeling and noticed how gently the fish welcomed us into their world ... as
compared to the violence with which we welcomed them into ours. I became a vegan.
-- Syndee Brinkman.
If any kid ever realized what was involved in factory farming, they would never touch meat
again. I was so moved by the intelligence, sense of fun and personalities of the animals I
worked with on "Babe" that by the end of the film I was a vegan. -- James Cromwell.
I have reached zero tolerance for the cruelty against our animal brothers. If we are to nurture
our culture, let's begin with the animals who have been nothing but our beasts of burden for
so long. -- Riki Rockett.
Items containing raw or uncooked egg should be avoided so as not to contact a certain strain
of salmonella. (It used to be thought that only broken eggs could transmit salmonella ... now it
is known that the mother passes salmonella through the egg.) (There is more incidence of
food poisoning from eggs than from meat, fish, or milk.) -- Jane Snow, food editor of the
Beacon Journal.
To his butler: Please put the ladybug outside without harming her. -- Winston
Churchill.
Since visiting the abbatoirs [slaughterhouses] of South France, I have stopped eating meat.
-- Vincent Van Gogh.
Thousands of animals [now billions] are butchered every day without a shadow of remorse.
It cries vengeance upon all the human race. -- Romain Rolland.
More and more we realize that a vegan diet is a good idea. -- Dr. Edward Martin, head
of Dept. of Defense Health.
My respect and empathy towards animals includes sea dwellers too - from dolphins to fish to
lobsters. So, of course, I wouldn't dream of eating them. -- Alexandra Paul.
As custodians of the planet it is our responsibility to deal with all species with kindness, love
and compassion. That these animals suffer through human cruelty is beyond understanding.
Please help to stop this madness. -- Richard Gere.
We stopped eating meat many years ago. During the course of a Sunday lunch we
happened to look out of the kitchen window at our young lambs playing happily in the fields.
Glancing down at our plates, we suddenly realized we were eating the leg of an animal who
had until recently been playing in a field herself. We looked at each other and said: "Wait
a minute, we love these sheep - they're such gentle creatures. So why are we eating them?"
It was the last time we ever did. -- Paul and Linda McCartney.
The other members of the National Football League say I'm in the minority ... but they are. A
majority of the world is vegan. -- Former Pittsburgh Steeler and New York Giant football
player Glenn Scolnick.
Some people are still going to want to eat meat ... we do agree, though, that veganism is
a healthier diet. --David Stroud of the American Meat Institute.
For many years the media have been afraid of the Goliath power of the meat industry. (But
David is coming!) -- Pegeen Fitzgerald of WOR TV and Radio in NY.
I spoke often in Congress against the war in Vietnam and commented on Congresspersons
hiding from the reality of war by saying, "Many eat the meat, but few go to the slaughterhouse". I said it so often I became a vegan. -- Rep. Andrew Jacobs, formerly
of Indianapolis.
In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be, but now we cannot
stand the thought of slaughterhouses. And it is impossible to find anyone who will hew
a dead ox or pig. I can still remember as a boy the rejoicings over the closing of the
last slaughterhouse. -- H. G. Wells (A Modern Utopia).
Of what use are all your sacrifices to Me? I have had enough of the roasted
carcasses of
rams and of the fat of fattened beasts. I take no pleasure in the blood of calves, lambs and
goats. ... When you spread out your hands, I close My eyes to you; despite however much
you pray, I will not listen. Your hands are full of blood! Wash yourselves clean! Put away
your misdeeds from before My eyes and stop doing evil. -- Isaiah 1:11, 15-16.
Whatever you do unto the least of my brothers, you do it unto me. -- Matthew 25:40.
Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much
as the evolution to a vegan diet. -- Albert Einstein.
I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual
improvement,
to leave off eating animals. -- Henry David Thoreau.
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 D. Barnard,
M.D., President, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.
People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for
continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people
from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of
times. -- Isaac
Singer.
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are
treated. -- Mohandas Gandhi.
If [man] is not to stifle his human feelings, he must practice kindness towards animals, for
he who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the
heart of a man by his treatment of animals. -- Immanuel Kant.
I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the
human race or doesn't ... The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is
the basis
of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking
further. -- Mark Twain.
One day the world will look upon research upon animals as it now looks upon research
on
human beings. -- Leonardo Da Vinci.
Humans are the only hunters who kill when not hungry. -- Steven Spielberg.
The medical argument for animal testing doesn't stand up. Even if it did, I don't think
we should kill other species. We think we're so much better; I'm not sure we are. I tell
people,
"We've beaten into submission every animal on the face of the Earth, so we are the clear
winners of whatever battle is going on between the species. Couldn't we be generous?" I
really do think it's time to get nice. No need to keep beating up on them. I think we've got
to show that we're kind. -- Paul McCartney.
You're thinking I'm one of those wise-ass California vegans who is going to tell
you that eating a few strips of bacon is bad for your health. I'm not. I say it's 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. -- Scott Adams (writer of "Dilbert").
If you could see or feel the suffering, you wouldn't think twice. Give back life. Don't eat
meat. -- Kim Basinger.
I haven't bought any leather articles for a very long time. My ideal is to be able to avoid
all animal products, in food as well as clothing. -- Martina Navratilova.
Forty years ago on the set of "Gunsmoke" I read the book The Holy Science. Since then
I have not eaten meat. -- Dennis Weaver.
Being around all the animals in the film Dr. Doolittle made me one too. -- Samantha Eggar.
GE is the biggest polluter of the Hudson ... years ago they killed all the fish dumping
millions of pounds of PCBs into our waterways. Now let's make them pay for the cleanup.
-- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
So you are the people tearing down the Brazilian rainforest and breeding cattle.
--Prince Philip, to McDonald's of Canada.
The awful cruelty and terror to which tens of thousands of animals killed for human food
are subjected in traveling long distances by ship and rail and road to the slaughterhouses
of the world. God disapproves of all cruelty ... whether to man or beast. The occupation
of slaughtering animals is brutalizing to those who are required to do the work. ... I
believe this matter is well worthy of the serious consideration of Christian leaders. -- Mrs.
Booth and General Bramwell Booth of the Salvation Army.
It is a surprisingly close progression from hunting animals to hunting and torturing people... catching and lynching blacks or smoking out Jews during the Holocaust. -- Aviva
Cantor writing in Ms. magazine.
Why not just put sterilization hormones in the deer food rather than killing them? --Dan
Ryan, Youngstown talk show host.
I have no intention of eating a fish from the East River. They're not safe to eat.
--Mayor White of Cleveland.
Arson and cruelty to animals are two of three childhood warning signs regarding the
potential to be a serial killer. -- John Douglas, profiler of serial killers for the FBI, upon
whom the FBI character in "Silence of the Lambs" was based.