Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
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.
If a kid ever realized what was involved in factory farming, they would never touch meat again.
Some people are still going to want to eat meat. We do agree though that vegetarianism is a healthier diet.
Being vegan helped me realize I can say and do what I believe is right. That’s powerful.
I’ve been vegan for about 10 and a half years. It’s been all good. I’m obviously much healthier.
We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do.
My refusing to eat meat occasioned inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension.
I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the necessity of discharging the duties of a butcher would be so inexpressibly painful and revolting, that if they could obtain a flesh diet on no other condition, they would relinquish it forever.
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.
Meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who kills so easily and so violently, and once a year sends out cards praying for "Peace on Earth."
There slowly grew up in me an unshakable conviction that we have no right to inflict suffering and death on another living creature, unless there is some unavoidable necessity for it.
Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It’s because they know what it’s like to be treated like an animal.
I became vegan because I saw footage of what really goes on in the slaughterhouses and on the dairy farms.
People saying that vegans are weak clearly have no idea of how much strength it takes to stand up for what you believe in.
Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it wouldn’t be the most reasonable way to understand why you shouldn’t do it.
I’m a vegan. I respect the environment, and I do my best to spread the importance of such an issue.
It is found easier, by the short-sighted victims of disease, to palliate their torments by medicine, than to prevent them by regimen.
It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery.
I believe we will look back and be shocked at what was the accepted way we killed animals en masse for food.