What's your favorite vegetarian quote?

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Example - "Animals are my friends... And I don't eat my friends"

Answer 1

that quote you wrote it by george bernard shaw!! =D

"You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit.  If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car."  Harvey Diamond

Answer 2

Food without a face!

that means "ever been alive"

Answer 3

"If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian"- Paul McCartney

"Animals are God's creatures, not human property, nor utilities, nor resources, nor commodities, but precious beings in God's sight"- Rev. Andrew Linzey

Answer 4

Great question!  I have so many quotes that I love.  It is too difficult to name just one.  I have to give you a few.  I hope you like them as much as I do:)

About 2,000 pounds of grains must be supplied to livestock in order to produce enough meat and other livestock products to support a person for a year, whereas 400 pounds of grain eaten directly will support a person for a year. Thus, a given quantity of grain eaten directly will feed 5 times as many people as it will if it is eaten indirectly by humans in the form of livestock products....

M.E. Ensminger, PH.D.

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Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.

Franz Kafka, while admiring fish in an aquarium

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Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.

Leonardo Da Vinci

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Whenever people say 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add 'We must be realistic,' they mean they are going to make money out of it.

Brigid Brophy

Answer 5

"He who gives permission, he who kills the animal, he who sells the slaughtered animal, he who cooks the animal, he who administers the distribution of the flesh, and last he who eats the flesh are all murderers and all of them are punishable under the laws of Karma."  the Vedas - Laws of Manu (5:55).

Answer 6

"It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man.  On the contrary, all the other beings too have been intended for their own sakes and not for the sake of something else."

-Maimonides c.1190

Answer 7

If you are what you eat does that make you dead meat?!?!?!

Love that one!!!

Answer 8

I have a few that strike me as profound:

"The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated."

-- Mahatma Gandhi

"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than blacks were made for whites, or women for man."

-- Alice Walker

"For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love."

-- Pythagoras

"People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times."

-- Isaac Singer

+peace love & light+