I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
When we kill animals to eat them they end up killing us because their flesh. . . was never intended for human beings, who are naturally herbivores.
If you're a progressive, if you're driving a Prius, or you're shopping green or you're looking for organic, you should probably be a semi-vegetarian.
Managing wildlife? It's wild! It don't need managing, leave it alone.
The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to be eating death. There is a kind of gestalt-shift between the two positions which makes it hard to change, and hard to raise questions on the matter at all without becoming embattled.
It does take a little work to be a vegetarian but it's so worth it, oh it's so worth it!
Cruelty to animals can become violence to humans.
Arteriosclerosis can be considered a disease of protein intoxication.
It is the other way round: food cannot make you spiritual, but if you are spiritual your food habits will change. Eating anything will not make much difference. You can be a vegetarian and cruel to the extreme, and violent; you can be a non-vegetarian and kind and loving. Food will not make much difference. In India there are communities who have lived totally with vegetarian food; many Brahmins have lived totally with vegetarian food. They are non-violent but they are not spiritual.
If we suffer in the sufferings of others and feel happy in the happiness of others, we are loving God.
Animals can't really voice their opinion. We feel as though we can be on of the spokespeople on their behalf.
The world's environment can no longer handle beef.
You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian.
Part of my becoming a vegetarian was that I would look at my burger, then look at my dogs, and I wasn't able to see a difference.
A reduction in meat consumption is the most powerful single act that you can take to halt the destruction of our environment and preserve our natural resources.
I remember eating in school in the years after the Second World War. Most of my friends had miserable portions of Spam with an inedible, glutinous pudding served in containers we called 'coffins. ' As a vegetarian, I had a lump of loathsome cheese and some bread.
He is by nature a vegetarian but would never consider giving up meat.
I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change - which lasted a couple of weeks - was based on the very simple instinct that it's wrong to kill animals for food.
I decline to go fox hunting.
I am conscious that meat eatingis not in accordance with the finer feelings,and I abstain from it whenever I can.