Vegetarian Quotes

• The sixteen hundred dairies in California’s Central Valley alone produce more waste than a city of twenty-one million people-that’s more than the populations of London, New York, and Chicago combined.

  

  Gene Baur
  • People
  • Cities
  • Produce

• Having the USDA design your food pyramid is like having Al Capone do your taxes.

  

  Caldwell Esselstyn
  • Design
  • Taxes
  • Vegetarian

• If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Food
  • Health
  • Humanity

• I learned different ways of working out. I learned a lot about my body. Let me just say that Arnold Schwarzenegger had 20-inch biceps when he did his first film, and when I did 'Saala Khadoos,' being a vegetarian, I managed 18 and half inches.

  

  R. Madhavan
  • Learned
  • Working Out
  • First Film

• When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian is ill (which fortunately very seldom happens), everyone assures him that he is going to die, and that they told him so, and that it serves him right. They implore him to take at least a little gravy, so as to give himself a chance of lasting out the night...

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Die
  • Vegetarian
  • Assures

• Being vegan or vegetarian isn't just about compassion for animals. Most of the destruction of the planet is the result of all the clear-cutting, groundwater contamination, grain production, fuel consumption, greenhouse gas, viral proliferation - the direct result of livestock production.

  

  William McNamara
  • Animal
  • Compassion
  • Vegan

• Hitler was a vegetarian. Just goes to show, vegetarianism, not always a good thing. Can in some extreme cases lead to genocide.

  

  Bill Bailey
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Extremes

• Vegetarianism that is me. I don't eat meat. It's been over 10 years. Actually it's been 11 and a half years and I feel good and I feel like I look good and I have energy& and you have to look at what you're putting in your body. I eat vegetables and I eat grain and I take care of myself and I don't think I look that bad, do I?

  

  Traci Bingham
  • Energy
  • Care
  • Body

• I've seen a big gain in cardio since I went vegetarian and even gained a little more going vegan.

  

  Andy Lally
  • Vegetarian
  • Gain
  • Cardio

• Being a vegetarian really saves lives.

  

  Esha Gupta
  • Lives
  • Vegetarian
  • Saves

• I don't wanna limit myself to anything, but I eat like a vegetarian and I eat mostly raw.

  

  Brett Dennen
  • Limit
  • Vegetarian
  • Raw

• So then man tortures and kills millions more animals to look for cures for these diseases. Elsewhere, millions of other human beings are being killed by hunger and malnutrition because food they could eat is being used to fatten domestic animals. Meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who kills so easily and so violently, and once a year, sends out cards praying for Peace on Earth.

  

  David C. Coates
  • People
  • Animal
  • Laughter

• When I was 12, I first made the decision to go vegetarian after a co-star's line 'I don't eat anything with a face' suddenly shocked me into reality.

  

  Renee Olstead
  • Decision
  • Vegetarian
  • Shocked

• 'Vegetarian' is a slippery word. I don't eat cheese, I don't eat duck - the point is I'm vegan.

  

  Grace Slick Starship
  • Word
  • Vegetarian
  • Cheese

• When I was 9 or 10 years old, my dad took me over to a neighboring farm to help get stuff for the meal. The farmer, Vic, told me to look at all the turkeys and pick one out. I saw a cute one with a silly walk and cried, 'Him!' Before my pointing finger had even dropped to my side, Vic had grabbed the turkey by the neck and slit the animal's throat. Blood and feathers went flying. I had sentenced that turkey to death! Up until then, I didn't know where meat came from—and I've been a vegetarian ever since.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Dad
  • Helping
  • Flying

• Until a vegan or vegetarian enters the room, people don't see themselves as meat-eaters. They are merely 'eaters', and it is we vegans who have made them aware of what they are doing. Often this is discomforting.

  

  Carol J. Adams
  • People
  • Food
  • Made

• I've been vegetarian since the 80s and, lately, even vegan. And I once happened to witness the slaughter of a cow. What atrocity must undergo an animal to satisfy the appetite of those fat men who eat hamburgers!

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Animal
  • Satisfy
  • Fat Men

• I love going to weddings. And I love it when my friends get married. I'm not against marriage but it's just not for me. I'm a vegetarian, but I don't have a problem if you want a hamburger.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Problem
  • Married
  • Hamburgers

• If you step back and look at the data, the optimum amount of red meat you eat should be zero.

  

  Walter Willett
  • Health
  • Should
  • Amount

• The evidence that folic acid reduces the risk of heart disease is pretty strong. [...] And fruits and vegetables are a major source of folic acid.

  

  Walter Willett
  • Heart
  • Strong
  • Evidence

• The current treatment of animals in the livestock trade definitely renders the consumption of meat as halachically unacceptable as the product of illegitimate means. ... As it is halachically prohibited to harm oneself and as healthy, nutritious vegetarian alternatives are easily available, meat consumption has become halachically unjustifiable.

  

  David Rosen
  • Mean
  • Animal
  • Healthy

• You can't make people change, but the organizers of WorldFest hope that people consider being vegetarian for both moral and health reasons.

  

  Grace Slick Starship
  • Hope
  • Change
  • Vegetarian

• Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better.

  

  Nicholas Herbert Stern
  • Resources
  • Meat
  • Vegetarian

• A diet rich in fruits and vegetables plays a role in reducing the risk of all the major causes of illness and death

  

  Walter Willett
  • Causes
  • Illness
  • Majors

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