Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.
Living entity is food for another living entity, it does not mean that I shall eat my children also. There is discretion.
We have found ways. . . to torture and maim animals and make their lives a misery, almost a living hell. . . in the multinational food industry. . . and in laboratories where often the most important thing being researched is the latest in lipstick or face cream.
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
For innumerable reasons, Mahamati, the Bodhisattva, whose nature is compassion, is not to eat any meat.
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.
Awareness is bad for the meat business. Conscience is bad for the meat business. Sensitivity to life is bad for the meat business. DENIAL, however, the meat business finds indispensable.
Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.
Personally, I don't think pure vegetarianism is a healthy lifestyle. I've often wondered to myself: Does a vegetarian look forward to dinner, ever?
To be a vegetarian is to disagree - to disagree with the course of things today. . . starvation, cruelty - we must make a statement against these things. Vegetarianism is my statement. And I think it's a strong one.
I have lived temperately, eating little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principal diet.
I became a vegetarian out of compassion for animals and to live as healthy as possible. I realized soon after that I was truly concerned with nonviolent consumption and my own health, a vegan diet was the best decision.
Even if we cannot be completely non-voilent, by being vegetarian we are going in the direction of non-voilence
We are the living graves of murdered beasts.
If you could see or feel the suffering you wouldn't think twice. Give back life. Don't eat meat.
I know vegetarians don't like to hear this, but God made an awful lot of land that's good for nothing but grazing.
Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the cause in principle. Besides agreeing with the aims of vegetarianism for aesthetic and moral reasons, it is my view that a vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.
The most important part of vegetarianism is the real shift in consciousness that takes place. There is a true correlation between our food choices and violence in the world. The only person who would disagree with that is a meat-eater
We cannot separate ourselves from those whom we call the 'lower' animals. They are lower in the scale of evolution, but they, like us, are members of the One Family. We must not take away the life of any creature. Indeed, we must never take away that which we cannot give. And as we cannot restore a dead creature to life, we have no right to take away its' life.
You don't win friends with salad.