quotations about vegetarianism
To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime.
ROMAIN ROLLAND
Jean-Christophe: Journey's End
Nothing wrong with vegetarians. Some of my best friends are vegetarians. Admittedly, they're also quadrupeds.
PETER ANDERTON
attributed, The Mammoth Book of Comic Quotes
A vegetarian in Texas. You're a long way from home.
LEE CHILD
Echo Burning
Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE
"Casual Observations", Dooley's Philosophy
Vegetarians are those who hope that by actively renouncing their places at the meal of the father's body they can avoid the guilt of this primal murder.
CATHERINE LIU
"Forget Theory", Acting Out in Groups
In the perfect world originally designed by God, man was meant to be a vegetarian.
JACOB COHEN
The Royal Table
Fat vegetarians are relatively few and far between. On average, they have 30 per cent less body fat than omnivores. Correspondingly they suffer less from diseases that tend to go with overweight, such as gout, gallstones, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and high blood pressure.
ALAN LONG
"The Well-nourished Vegetarian", New Scientist, February 5, 1981
A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of carcass dressed and hung up in a butchers stall passes as food.
JOHN HARVEY KELLOGG
attributed, Vegetarian Food for Thought
It is beyond doubt that the chief motive of Vegetarianism is the humane one. Questions of hygiene and of economy both play their part, and an important part, in a full discussion of food reform; but the feeling which underlies and animates the whole movement is the instinctive horror of butchery, especially the butchery of the more highly organized animals, so human, so near akin to man.
HENRY S. SALT
"The Humanities of Diet", Ethical Vegetarianism