Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened calf with hatred

Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened calf with hatred

Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to read more

Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this read more

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, read more

I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different read more

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living read more

We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.

Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.

Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.

It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would read more

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.

When it's all said and done we will lose a piece to a carnivorous vegetarian

When it's all said and done we will lose a piece to a carnivorous vegetarian