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- “I have a lot of time for vegetarians (though apparently not all of them have a lot of time for me), and that’s because I respect anyone with principles about food.”
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Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall,
River Cottage Veg Every Day!
- “Activists must not work against one another in their single-minded dedication to one specific cause. Those fighting to protect horses must not eat cattle. We do well to specialize, but we do not do well if we specialize without knowledge of interlocking oppressions—or without the application of that knowledge.”
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Lisa Kemmerer,
Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice
- “E allora quanta sofferenza è accettabile? È questa la base di tutto, ed è questo che ognuno di noi deve chiedersi. Quanta sofferenza sei disposto a tollerare per il tuo cibo?”
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Jonathan Safran Foer,
Eating Animals
- “Drama does not just walk into our lives. Either we create it, invite it, or associate with it.”
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Brandi L. Bates,
Remains To Be Seen
- “We can feed more of the world’s many hungry people if we stop producing anymal products.”
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Lisa Kemmerer,
Animals and World Religions
- “Mano širdis ėmė daužytis taip, tarsi po ja būtų vegetaro skrandis, virškinantis keptą paršelį su litru rakijos”
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Goran Vojnović,
Jugoslavija, moja dežela
- “Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.”
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Franz Kafka
- “You can judge a man’s true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.”
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Paul McCartney
- “Everyone’s life changes when they meet their Obi-Wan & their Yoda, or their Morpheus & their Oracle; those who help remove the veil.”
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Brandi L. Bates
- “Losing weight and regaining health does not mean eating smaller portions of the same unhealthy food. The “Plan A” Diet is the optimal diet to choose for the rest of your life. Research confirms that God’s “Plan A” diet should become yours as well.”
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Cyd Notter,
The “Plan A” Diet: Combining Whole Food, Plant Based Nutrition with the Timeless Wisdom of Scripture
- “We strive for a world where every earthling has the right to live and grow. That’s why we don’t eat animals.”
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Ruby Roth,
That’s Why We Don’t Eat Animals: A Book About Vegans, Vegetarians, and All Living Things
- “Something I’ve never been able to adapt to, to understand is how they can lavish such love and care on the animals and then see them sold for slaughter. I don’t dare say anything about it, though. Richard and his friends would be down on me in a flash. But there’s some kind of cold, unfeeling contradiction in that business.”
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Robert James Waller,
The Bridges of Madison County
- “It already smells good,” he said, pointing toward the stove. “It smells… quiet.” He looked at her.”Quiet? Could something smell quiet” She was thinking about the phrase, asking herself. He was right. After the pork chops and steaks and roasts she cooked for the family, this was quiet cooking. No violence involved anywhere down the food chain, except maybe for pulling up the vegetables. The stew cooked quietly and smelled quiet.”
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Robert James Waller,
The Bridges of Madison County
- “Vegan is just pure love. Love for animals, love for the planet, and love for yourself.”
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Mischa Temaul
- “When weight loss is conflated with veganism, it falls into dangerous area of body shaming and misogyny. Mainstream media loves to make women feel inferior when it comes to their bodies and unfortunately veganism has recently become another weapon and this sexist war on our society. Thin white women are used to sell veganism as a quick fix to a more desirable body at the expense of anyone who doesn’t fit the cookie cutter idea of female perfection. In addition, these images and messages work to oppress women of colour and people living with disabilities. Selling veganism as anything other than caring for animals often leads to oppression, plain and simple. We need to resist this approach to promoting veganism by drawing the fight back to animals. Every single time.”
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Sean o’callaghan,
Fat, Gay Vegan – Eat, Drink and Live Like You Give a Sh!t
- “What’s more, those who overeat can hardly stay awake.”
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Dalai Lama XIV,
Stages of Meditation
- “If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.”
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Paul McCartney
- “…recent research suggests that presenting people with proof that their beliefs are incorrect doesn’t change their minds. Instead, it actually reinforces their erroneous beliefs, as they work hard to defend them against fact and logic.”
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Garth Davis, M.D.
- “When pressed, hunters who claim that they just want “to be out in the wilderness,” will admit that the kill is essential—or at least the hope of a kill. As it turns out, there is no correlation between hunting and hiking, climbing, backpacking, kayaking, or any other outdoor activity. Hunters do not purposefully linger in the woods after a kill, but quickly begin the process of preparing to head home with the corpse. For hunters, the kill is the climax—the most important moment. They are not driving into the woods (or sometimes actually walking) for the sake of beauty, but in the hope of a kill.”
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Lisa Kemmerer,
Speaking Up for Animals: An Anthology of Women’s Voices
- “In order to align your life choices with your values, you will need to inquire about the effects of your actions (and inactions) on yourself and others. Although we are always stumbling upon new knowledge that shifts our choices and life direction, bringing conscious inquiry to life means that we continually ask questions that lead us to the information we need to make thoughtful decisions. Asking questions is liberating because we develop great understanding and discover more choices with our new knowledge.”
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Zoe Weil,
Most Good, Least Harm: A Simple Principle for a Better World and Meaningful Life
- “In the racist, sexist United States, nonwhite racialized minorities—and women in particular—are subjected to more than their share of horrific violence, but no human being would wish to trade places with nonhuman animals in factory farms or laboratories. . . .The legal status of women and nonwhite racializedminorities has improved markedly in the past fifty years; matters have grown considerably worse for nonhuman animals.”
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Lisa Kemmerer,
Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice
- “Both groups [with fibromyalgia] reported having quite a lot of pain at rest in the beginning of the study, but there was a significant decrease in the intervention [vegan] group during the living food diet period (p~0.005). The positive result disappeared gradually after shifting back to the omnivorous diet. Also significant changes were found in other parameters describing the symptoms of fibromyalgia such as improvement in the quality of sleep (p~0.0001), reduction of morning stiffness (p~0.00001), improvement in the General health questionnaire (p~0.02) as well as in the Health assessment questionnaire (p~0.03), and in the rheumatologist’s overall questionnaire (p~0.038), which dealt with subjective feelings.”
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Kati Kaartinen
- “Oppressions are linked. We cannot free human beings without freeing cows, sows, and hens along with women and men who are systematically oppressed by those in power. Rather than seek to fight our way up the patriarchal ladder, those working for social justice need to dismantle hierarchies, and cease to exploit all those who are less powerful—even if we must give up a few culinary favorites in the process. (Those who have taken up a plantbased diet for any measure of time never want for fabulous foods. From my experience, people who discover the vast array of wonderful plant-based foods that are readily available in most of our communities never look back.) Each of us decides, over the course of our daily lives, whether we will ignore the suffering of nonhuman animals who are caught in laboratories, veal crates, circuses, and slaughterhouses, or choose to invest in compassionate, healthy alternatives . . . . We choose where our money goes, and in the process, we choose whether to boycott cruelty and support change, or melt ambiguously back into the masses.”
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Lisa Kemmerer,
Speaking Up for Animals: An Anthology of Women’s Voices
- “We report the unusual occurrence of eight cases of vitamin D intoxication that appear to have been caused by excessive vitamin D fortification of dairy milk… All eight patients drank milk produced by a local dairy in amounts ranging from 1/2 to 3 cups (118 to 710 ml) daily…Analysis of the dairy’s vitamin D—fortified milk revealed concentrations of vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) that ranged from undetectable to as high as 232,565 IU per quart (245,840 IU per liter). An analysis of the concentrate that was used to fortify the milk, labeled as containing vitamin D2 (ergocalciferol), revealed that it contained vitamin D3.”
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Claire Jacobus
- “The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. If beef is your idea of “real food for real people” you’d better live real close to a real good hospital.”
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Neal Barnard
- “Our deeply-rooted beliefs about the wholesomeness of milk and dairy products should be re-considered under careful, scientific evaluation.”
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Bodo Melnik
- “Dr. Jens Kjeldsen-Kragh, M.D., of the Institute of Immunology and Rheumatology at the National Rheumatism Hospital of Oslo, conducted a study about the usefulness of vegetarian foods in arthritis. He found that switching to a vegetarian diet resulted in improved grip strength and much less pain, joint swelling, tenderness and morning stiffness in about 90 per cent of a group of arthritis patients, compared with controls eating an ordinary diet. The patients noticed improvement within a month, and it lasted throughout the entire year-long experiment. Dr. Kjeldsen-Kragh concluded that about 70 per cent of the patients improved because they avoided fats that are likely to instigate the inflammation process.”
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H.K. Bakhru
- “Don’t wait for a better world. Start now to create a world of harmony and peace. It is up to you, and it always has been. You may even find the solution at the end of your fork.”
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Sharon Gannon,
Yoga and Vegetarianism: The Path to Greater Health and Happiness
- “I can’t tell you how many times over the years people tried to give me soy cheese and tempeh fake-meat, and other ickiness and pass it off as yummy. I’m sorry but no, you cannot make vegetable protein taste like bacon, no matter how much salt and liquid smoke you put in it! I wanted to celebrate good food, prepared in ways that make it good for you, which is surprisingly easy to do if you know the basics. If you use exceptional products that have inherent natural goodness, you don’t need to swamp them in butter or cream to make them taste good.” For dinner we’d had grilled skirt steaks, spicy Thai sesame noodles from my friend Doug’s recipe, braised cauliflower, and for dessert, poached pears and Greek yogurt with lavender flowers and black sage honey. Filling, balanced, nutritionally sound.”
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Stacey Ballis,
Good Enough to Eat
- “Fish are divided from us by surfaces and silence.”
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Jonathan Safran Foer,
Eating Animals