Quotations regarding veganism

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.”

- Will Durant

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

- Albert Einstein

"I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open and put them on cholesterol-lowering drugs for the rest of their lives.”

- Dean Ornish, M.D.

"There's no reason to drink cow's milk at any time in your life. It was designed for calves, not humans, and we should all stop drinking it today, this afternoon."

- Dr. Frank A. Oski
former director of pediatrics
Johns Hopkins University

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

- C. S. Lewis

"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.

"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men."

- Alice Walker

"Of all the creatures that were made he [man] is the most detestable.  [...]He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain."

- Mark Twain

 "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.”

- Neal D. Barnard, M.D.
President
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine

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