I've drifted in and out of vegetarianism for years.
I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.
Life in its infinite forms exists as one organic unity. We are part of it: the part should feel reverence for the whole. That is the idea of vegetarianism. It simply means: don't destroy life. It simply means: life is God - avoid destroying it, otherwise you will be destroying the very ecology.
Vegetarianism is the cure for 99% of the world's problems. Think about it.
I think vegetarianism is a crucial ethical choice for an individual and a society.
Basically we should stop doing those things that are destructive to the environment, other creatures, and ourselves and figure out new ways of existing.
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.
If you step back and look at the data, the optimum amount of red meat you eat should be zero.
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.
Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it.
I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.
Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal.
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
The wrongfulness, the immorality of eating animal food has been recognized by all mankind during all the conscious life of humanity. Why, then have people generally not come to acknowledge this law? The answer is that the moral progress of humanity is always slow; but that the sign of true, not casual Progress, is in uninterruptedness and its continual acceleration. And one cannot doubt that vegetarianism has been progressing in this manner
I can't count the times that upon telling someone I am vegetarian, he or she responded by pointing out an inconsistency in my lifestyle or trying to find a flaw in an argument I never made. (I have often felt that my vegetarianism matters more to such people than it does to me. )
Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.
Vegetarianism is an act of the imagination. It reflects an ability to imagine alternatives to the texts of meat.
The ultimate tendency of liberalism is vegetarianism.
How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?
Our food system takes abundant grain,which people can't afford,and shrinks it into meat,which better-off people will pay for.