- “In every age a general misdirection of what may be called sexual “taste”… [is] produce[d by the devil and his angels]. This they do bu working through the small circle of artists, dressmakers, actresses, and advertisers who determine the fashionable type. The aim is to guide each sex away from those members of the other with whom spiritually helpful, happy, and fertile marriages are most likely. Thus [they] have now for many centuries triumphed over nature to the extent of making certain secondary characteristics of the male (such as the beard) disagreeable to nearly all the females-and there is more in that than you might suppose. As regards the male taste [they] have varied a good deal. At one time [they] have directed it to the statuesque and aristocratic type of beauty, mixing men’s vanity with their desires and encouraging the race to breed chiefly from the most arrogant and prodigal women. At another, [they] have selected an exaggeratedly feminine type, faint and languishing, so that folly and cowardice, and all the general falseness and littleness of mind which go with them, shall be at a premium. At present [they] are on the opposite tack. The age of jazz has succeeded the age of the waltz, and [they] now teach men to like women whose bodies are scarcely distinguishable from those of boys. Since this is a kind of beauty even more transitory than most, [they] thus aggravate the female’s chronic horror of growing old (with many [successful] results) and render her less willing and less able to bear children. And that is not all. [They] have engineered a great increase in the license which society allows to the representation of the apparent nude (not the real nude) in art, and its exhibition on the stage or the bathing beach. It is all a fake, or course; the figures in the popular art are falsely drawn; the real women in bathing suits or tights are actually pinched in and propped up to make them to appear firmer and more slender and more boyish than nature allows a full-grown woman to be. Yet at the same time, the modern world is taught to believe that it is being “frank” and “healthy” and getting back to nature. As a result [they] are more and more directing the desires of men to something which does not exist-making the role of the eye in sexuality more and more important and at the same time making its demands more and more impossible.”
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C.S. Lewis,
The Screwtape Letters
- “Violence begins with the fork.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
- “If you are not vegan, please consider going vegan. It’s a matter of nonviolence. Being vegan is your statement that you reject violence to other sentient beings, to yourself, and to the environment, on which all sentient beings depend.”
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Gary L. Francione
- “A peculiarity of the nature of your mind is that, in contrast to your physical constitution (dosha) that is fixed from birth, it can be altered through discrimination and choice.”
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Sebastian Pole,
Discovering the True You with Ayurveda: How to Nourish, Rejuvenate, and Transform Your Life
- “Grass fed meat is an environmental nightmare perpetuated by elitists who refuse to change their eating habits.”
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Lisa Kemmerer,
Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice
- “a green juiceis not self-careif it’s meant to starve notnourish.—moderation”
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Ashley Asti,
The Moon and Her Sisters
- “I was proud to be brown in my own way. Well, I was at school; at school I was brown about the funky stuff that came with being vegetarian, like being really arrogant about it, declaring proudly to a room full of beefeaters when Mad Cow disease initially broke that it was ‘Vishnu’s way of telling y’all to stop eating and start worshipping’.”
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Nikesh Shukla,
Coconut Unlimited
- “Let us remember that animals are not mere resources for human consumption. They are splendid beings in their own right, who have evolved alongside us as co-inheritors of all the beauty and abundance of life on this planet”
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Marc Bekoff,
Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect
- “One farmer says to me, ‘You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with;’ and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.”
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Henry David Thoreau,
Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
- “Out in the field, sitting on the grass, the hard-core omnivores are hunched around and over the cadaver of a creature they’ve courageously downed, greedily feasting on its flesh, while furtively looking around in all directions.. one of them has thrown in a few wilted sprigs of asparagus and a bucketful of ketchup to sweeten the deal.The vegetarians have caught an animal, chased her baby over to the omnivores, and are suckling from her nipples, while others feast on a basket of gathered birds eggs.The vegans have just ploughed through a mono crop of wheat, and soy and are enjoying their tofu burgers.Meanwhile those radical fruitarian extremists are in the cherry trees, looking on in wide-eyed bewilderment..”
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Mango Wodzak
- “She grew up in the days when lamps ran on whale blubber, guitars were strung with catgut, and pig brains were a delicacy. Imposing my pampered millennial morality on the situation would be an insult to her entire generation.”
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George Watsky
- “The repugnance to animal food is not the effect of experience, but it is instinct.”
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Henry David Thoreau,
Walden
- “It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.”
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Albert Einstein
- “Every time you drink a glass of milk or eat a piece of cheese, you harm a mother. Please go vegan.”
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GaryLFrancione
- “Most people just want to be left in peace to eat their bacon, not realising that there is no peace behind bacon.”
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Mango Wodzak,
Destination Eden
- “It appeals to the higher nature of the self to put aside food which once lived – I do not consider myself food, why should I ask all other creatures to consider themselves so?”
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Catherynne M. Valente,
In the Night Garden
- “We are the collateral damage of carnism; we pay for it with our health, our environment, and our taxes – $7.64 billion a year, to be exact.”
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Melanie Joy,
Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism: The Belief System That Enables Us to Eat Some Animals and Not Others
- “I asked a girl once why she was vegetarian. I said, is it because you love animals? And she replied, no it’s because I had plants. To that I said, don’t ever let someone take you to see the Palace Gardens- you’d both end up in jail.”
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Kelly Batten,
One Day You’ll Find Me
- “I don’t like vegans, either. Bunch of whiny zealots. A cow or a pig wouldn’t give a damn if a person died… animals tear apart other animals while they’re still alive, but we aren’t so cruel, so vegans should learn to shut up. Vegans use palm oil and never think about the forests and endangered species at risk from that… and they all exploit the world in other ways, buying their computers and their sweatshop clothes and their Starbucks coffees. Anyway, cats and dogs eat their owners after the owner dies. I saw on the news a few times that there was a lot of open animal food in the houses where that sort of thing happens, but the pets eat the dead owner… just because. Maybe a pet’s notion of ‘unconditional love’ is like Jeffrey Dahmer… he used to eat and kill the people he professed to love, too. He was a sicko… I don’t believe animals have any empathy. Do elephants ever consider Holocaust victims? Do dogs ever cry over the Rwanda Genocide?”
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Rebecca McNutt,
Bittersweet Symphony
- “The path of the norm is the path of least resistance; it is the route we take when we’re on auto-pilot and don’t even realize we’re following a course of action that we haven’t consciously chosen. Most people who eat meat have no idea that they’re behaving in accordance with the tenets of a system that has defined many of their values, preferences, and behaviors. What they call ‘free choice’ is, in fact, the result of a narrowly obstructed set of options that have been chosen for them. They don’t realize, for instance, that they have been taught to value human life so far above certain forms of nonhuman life that it seems appropriate for their taste preferences to supersede other species’ preference for survival.”
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Melanie Joy,
Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism: The Belief System That Enables Us to Eat Some Animals and Not Others
- “Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the paradigm of oppression and violence that she has been taught from childhood to accept as the natural order. It changes her life and the lives of those with whom she shares this vision of nonviolence. Ethical veganism is anything but passive; on the contrary, it is the active refusal to cooperate with injustice”
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GaryLFrancione
- “The horse and the cow, the rabbit and the cat, the deer and the hare, the pheasant and the lark, please us better as friends than as meat.”
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Élisée Reclus
- “Ogni pezzo di carne ha avuto un volto. Chi vuole la carne deve tener conto della morte. Chi non vuole, può farne a meno.”
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Claudia Schreiber,
Emmas Glück
- “The results suggest that consumption of total meat is significantly associated with a 9% to 28% increased risk of stroke.”
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Kyuwoong Kim
- “There is general agreement that red meat consumption increases the risk of colon or colorectal cancer. This was the only food association with cancer that was labeled ‘‘convincing’’ in the recent report from the World Cancer Research Fund, American Institute for Cancer Research (42). The evidence, of course, largely came from studies of meat consumption in nonvegetarians, although data from Adventist vegetarians in California concur (43).”
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Gary E. Fraser
- “I wouldn’t touch a hot dog unless you put a condom on it! You realize that the job of a hot dog is to use parts of the animal that the Chinese can’t figure out how to make into a belt? -timecode 1:11:10”
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Bill Maher
- “Killing or eating animals is an act of beasts. Stirs within the devil. Sorry. It spurs evil. Thus is truth – at least the metaphysical.”
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Fakeer Ishavardas
- “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
- “The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another, even the lowliest creature; but to do so is to renounce our manhood and shoulder a guilt which nothing justifies.”
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Dr. Albert Schweitzer
- “Understand: the task of an activist is not to negotiate systems of power with as much personal integrity as possible–it’s to dismantle those systems.”
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Lierre Keith,
The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability