Profound Misconception

The word race stinks for cultural reasons. In 1950, the UNESCO proposed to "drop the use of the word race". This was a mistake. Force is to realize that by definition this word is a non pejorative and appropriate expression.

RACE: group of living creatures categorized by one or many observable quality or characteristic.

How can racism, an important problem in our society, be possibly and correctly faced if the most important word to describe it, the word race, is supposed not to be used? That itself is terribly wrong.

'The human race' expression is a good example that goes against the misconception that races are only physical/genetical variances between human groups. The truth is that differences exist infinitely among individuals and groups of all species, and it is easy to use very few of these differences to create a race - i.e. the race of earthlings who breathe air, the race of human beings who drink alcohol, the race of dogs shorter than one foot, etc.

RACISM: prejudice that members of one race are intrinsically superior to members of one to many other races; attitude of bias in favor of the interests of members of one's race and against those not belonging to that race.

Today, the way the vast majority of humans treat other animals on planet Earth is the most profound existing form of racism. The human race exploits the nonhuman race in extreme manners, notably by killing about two hundred million animals every single day.

The opposite of the most extreme form of racism is the characteristic to consistently strive for the equal and maximum benefit of all races - of all living entities - no matter their unique characteristics and qualities.

Rage Against Speciesism

Today, I woke up with an amazing smile. For some reason, I was pretty high, again, still.

Tonight, after I went on Facebook to see what my little world was up to, I just felt super angry. I often say I need to be patient. I often say I just need to show by example. I often say there is no use to get pissed and have negative feelings. But tonight, I can't help it, it's too much, I'm sick of the omnipresent "I don't care" indifferent people, the "You are right, but I won't change" hypocrite people and the "You're annoying with your obsession" stupid people.

Flesh eating is the number one cause of violence.
Flesh eating is the number one cause of human health problems.
Flesh eating is the number one cause of environmental degradations.
Flesh eating is the number one cause of exploitation and cruelty towards billions of nonhuman animals.

Only speciesism makes flesh eating possible and widely accepted. Speciesism is the worst problem of the 21st century. Humans slaughter around 100 billion animals every year on Earth. In other words, about 1,000,000,000,000 (1 trillion) nonhuman animals were voluntary killed by humans since January 1st 2000. The cruelty inflicted by humans to other earthlings is terrible in numerous aspects. I will fight against speciesism all my life. Speciesism is a good term to describe the most serious form of racism on Earth at the moment. I will fight against racism until the end of time.

I know it, flesh eating sets a strong curse onto people's mind, just like I often think a plant-based lifestyle is a miracle in itself. Everything is magic after all - the good like the bad.

The warrior in me screams rage, rage against speciesism, rage against violence. I would love to berserk to let it all out but I'm afraid it is not possible, I'm afraid it is better to calm it down for a better time, even if it hurts for now.

I Am For Sure But What Exactly?

I'm a nerd but I'm a skater
I'm a skater but I'm a lover
I'm a lover but I'm a melomaniac
I'm a melomaniac but I'm a writer
I'm a writer but I'm an engineer
I'm an engineer but I'm a musician
I'm a musician but I'm a craftsman
I'm a craftsman but I'm a vegan
I'm a vegan but I'm an artist
I'm an artist but I'm an athlete
I'm an athlete but I'm a speaker
I'm a speaker but I'm a listener
I'm a listener but I'm a warrior
I'm a warrior but I'm a philosopher
I'm a philosopher but I'm a worker
I'm a worker but I'm a student
I'm a student but I'm a leader
I'm a leader but I'm a nerd

The Love Of Music, The Soundest Mania, Melomania

There are days like today, like yesterday, and like the day before, when I listen to music, and everything around and inside me is heaven. I hear the angels signing. I see the magic prominence. I sens the touch of birds. I smell the ocean dancing. I taste the food of love.

I feel the light curving perfectly in my ears. I wish I could share such amazing feelings with everyone else, you too. I wish everyone else could have the happy smile, the one hooked to my young adult earthling's face, including you, especially.

I'm a melomaniac. I love, music, the sound of life.

The Infinite Interrelation Between Intelligence And Lifestyle

Intelligence is an earthling's global property that describes its capacity to interract with its environment in order to survive and improve the overall benefits of all the earthlings found in its environment, including, unspecifically, itself. In a simplified way, intelligence describes an earthling's capacities to, notably, imagine, reason, comprehend, learn and remember. In a complexified way, intelligence describes an earthling's capacities to, notably, love, share, hope, help and trust. Intelligence is the greatest concept to describe the capacities of an earthling.

Lifestyle is a complex factor that describes the way an earthling lives. Lifestyle defines the interractions between the earthling body and its physical environment - the incessant material interractivities and movements during its life. Lifestyle is the greatest concept to describe the events that occur in an earthling's life.

Just like other earthling capacities like physical performance or physical endurance, intelligence is dependant on the health of the earthling. The health of the earthling brain will directly determinate its intelligence. Just like other organs, the health of the brain is directly influenced by its lifestyle. Hence, intelligence directly depends on lifestyle. Because lifestyle is a controllable factor, the controllable fluctuation of an earthling's intelligence depends solely on its lifestyle. In other words, lifestyle is the one and only controllable factor that modifies intelligence through time.

Not only intelligence directly depends on lifestyle, intelligence is the most important factor that influences lifestyle, because every action made by an earthling depends directly on its intelligence.

Therefore, intelligence and lifestyle are infinitely interrelated. The definitions of intelligence and lifestyle are recursive in a mathematical maner.

In conclusion, lifestyle is the sole controllable factor that makes intelligence fluctuate. Also, and inversely, intelligence is the most important factor that influences lifestyle. Intelligence and lifestyle are boundlessly interconnected.

'Industrial civilizations, the toxicomaniacs enlightenment' or '1768 - 20XY, the death of industrial capitalism'

Capitalism: overpopulation in industrial civilizations

Ressources exploitation/depletion/exhaustion

Pollution of soil/air/groundwater/rivers/lacs/oceans

Toxicomaniac lifestyle disorders:
toxic products consumption (meat/dairy/sugar/preservatives/chemicals/pesticides/mercury/etc.)
drugs/alcohol consumption
unhealthy work schedules
unhealthy water
unhealthy air
etc.

Ecosystems destructions:
unusable arable lands
unbreathable air
undrinkable rivers/lacs/groundwater
unswimmable rivers/lacs/oceans
earthling species overdeaths/extinction
etc.

Main-stream media cover-up:
'liberty and democracy' promotion
entertainment saturation
superficial concepts propagandha
'ElNiño'/'terrorism'/'Global warming'/H1N1/etc. false-flags
use of unrational religious ideas
etc.

Violence

The Sexy Food

Alfalfa Almond Apple Apricot Arame Asparagus Avocado Banana Barley Basil Beet Bilberry Blackberry Blackeyed Blackpepper Blueberry Brazilnut Broccoli Brownrice Buckwheat Butternutsquash Cabbage Cacao Canola Cantaloupe Carrot Cashew Cauliflower Celery Chamomile Cherimoya Cherry Chickpea Chili Chives Cilantro Cinnamon Clover Coconut Collard Coriander Corn Cranberry Cucumber Cumin Curcuma Dandelion Date Dill Dragonfruit Dulse Durian Eggplant Fern Fig Flax Garlic Ginger Ginseng Gojiberry Grapefruit Grape Greenpepper Hazelnut Hemp Honeymelon Jackfruit Jalapeno Kale Kamut Kelp Kiwi Lemon Lentil Lime Loganberry Mango Mangosteen Maple Millet Mint Mulberry Mungbean Mushroom Mustard Navy Nettle Nori Oats Olive Onion Orange Oregano Papaya Parsley Passionfruit Pea Pecans Peach Pear Persimmon Pineapple Pinenuts Plum Potato Pricklypear Pumpkin Quinoa Radish Raspberry Rice Rye Sesame Sharonfruit Spelt Spinach Springoinion Strawberry Sunflower Tangerine Tea Thyme Tomato Topinambour Vanilla Wakame Walnut Watermelon Wheat Zucchini

Violence is the absence of love

I believe the most frequent form of violence in adults is the lack of self-love which is both the result of and the cause of self mistreatment. Self mistreatment is most commonly seen in lifestyle disorders, including especially bad eating habits and alcohol/drug consumption.

Strong Quotes

Until we live our prayers for peace and freedom by granting peace and freedom to those who are vulnerable in our hands, we will find neither peace nor freedom.
~Will Tuttle


Unless we change our food choices, nothing else matters.
~Gandhi

Forgiveness is the greatest presence of peace.
~Mother Teresa

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of wise people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition, to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.
~Pythagoras

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairytales. If you want your children to be more intelligent, read them more fairytales.
~Albert Einstein

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
~Albert Einstein

An old American Indian once said to his grandson that in every human being, there are two wolves that fight a no mercy war.
One wolf represents fear, anger, jealousy, shame, pride...
The other wolf is kindness, gratitude, hope, smile, love...
The child asked: "Grandfather, which wolf is stronger"?
The old man answered: "The one you feed the most".

What would happen if we lived in a way that listened to the voices in the land - of the pine, the oak, the ancestors singing as we walked down the valley where they, too, once walked?
~Ann Armbrecht, Thin Places

May all your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view...where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you.
~Edward Abbey

Being deeply loved by someone gives you Strenght. Loving someone deeply gives you Courage.
~Lao Tzu

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
~Albert Einstein

The Biggest trick that "Evil" played on humans, is convince us it isn't there! We're tricked that evil is subjective but we all have the radar of what feels evil. Here are some products that PROFIT from obvious evil: cigarettes, alcohol, fast food, pharmaceutical, flesh, dairy, fluoride, arms, war... But it starts with You recognizing the lie within and Change. There is still Hope!
~Marcus Patrick

If you try to fix violence with violence, you do nothing but create violence.
~Thomas Delonge

Veganism - That's one small step for a human, one giant leap for humankind.
~Jérôme François Falcon

Above all things, reverence yourself.
~Pythagoras

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
~Maya Angelou

When the last tree is cut down the last river poisoned the last fish caught, then only will man discover that he cannot eat money.
~Cree Indian wisdom

The white man must treat the beasts of the land as his brothers. What is man, without beast? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man.
~Chief Seattle

I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.
~Abraham Lincoln

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
~George Washington

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
~George Washington

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
~George Washington

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
~George Washington

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
~George Washington

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.
~George Washington

Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man.
~Thoma Jefferson

Most people don't understand just how much their values are influenced by their culture. Even notions of good of evil, the concept of morality, are arrived at thru our society. This method of control does not use force. It is so successfull that people no longer recognize the manipulation. All social systems perpetuate themselves. The values superimposed are there to support the system that they're in.
~Roxanne Meadows

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

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
~William Ralph Inge

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
~Martin Luther King

The humble sage, by virtue of true knowledge, sees with equal vision a learned and gentle brahmana (a priest), a cow, an elephant, a dog, and a dog-eater (outcast).
~Bhagvat Gita

Who can be more cruel and selfish than he who augments his flesh by eating the flesh of innocent animals?
~Mahabharat

Welfare activities are popular because they accept our society's violent and speciesist belief that nonhuman animals are here for us to exploit and kill, but they [welfare ativities] are counterproductive because by such acceptance, they also promote and strengthen the violent and speciesist notion that animals are here for us to exploit and kill. Welfare activities are part of a vicious circle.
~Dan Cudahy

Humans are as much animal as the sentient beings that we use for food, clothing, research, experimentation, work, entertainment, slavery and companionship.
~Jo-Anne McArthur

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
~Jiddu Krishnamurti

They must find it difficult... those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority.
~G. Massey

If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth - beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals - would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?
~attributed to George Bernard Shaw

Some folks insist that believing in animal rights is like a religion. But religion asks followers to believe in things nobody can see, while animal rights advocates ask followers to see things nobody can believe.
~Craig Burton

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
~James Baldwin

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
~Edmin P. Hubble

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.
~Leo Tolstoy

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
~Samuel Johnson

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

~Edmund Burke

God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.
~Mother Teresa

Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.

~Emanuel Swedenborg

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
~John Quincy Adams

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
~Frank Lloyd Wright

Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
~Buddha

First, live a compassionate life. Then you will know.
~Buddha

The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart away from nature becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.
~Chief Luther Standing Bear

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

~Winston Churchill

Evil (ignorance) is like a shadow. It has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.
~Shakti Gawain

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass... It's about learning to dance in the rain.
~Vivian Green

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.
~Dalai Lama

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
~Epictetus

In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations.
~'Great Law', Iroquois nation

Verily, I say to you, I am come into the world, in order to put an end to all blood offerings and to the eating of the flesh of animals and birds that are slain by men.
~Jesus Christ

One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our souls and become worthier of sharing this planet with them.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.
~Aldous Huxley

All breathing, existing, living sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away.
~Acharanga Sutra

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
~Albert Pike

The opposite of the most extreme form of racism is the characteristic to consistently strive for the equal and maximum benefit of all races, the equal and maximum benefit of all living beings.
~Jérôme François Falcon

The violence associated with average speciesism is far worse than the violence associated with extreme racism.
~Dan Cudahy

As long as we are inflicting suffering and death on animals where the only justification we have is our pleasure, further discussion seems me to be lunacy.
~Gary L. Francione

Peace begins with a smile.
~Mother Teresa

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
~Mother Teresa

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
~Buddha

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.
~Mother Teresa

Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
~Albert Einstein

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
~Mother Teresa

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
~Buddha

We are bringing solutions to help solve problems and bring sustainable solutions so future generations will have a planet worth inheriting.
~Kiley Halpern

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
~Buddha

Lifestyle is the sole controllable factor that makes intelligence fluctuate. Also, and inversely, intelligence is the most important factor that influences lifestyle. Therefore, lifestyle and intelligence are infinitely interrelated.
~Jérôme François Falcon

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.

Lot's of people talk to animals, not many listen though. That's the problem.
~Benjamin Koff

The primary, if not the only measure by which we will be judged by those who come after us is going to be the health of the landbase.
~Derrick Jensen

The needs of the natural world are more important than the needs of the economic system.
~Derrick Jensen

What if there was a place that expressed our awe for nature?
A place outside of time, an island of tranquility, a place where the elephants watch over you, where whales lullaby you to sleep. A place where you fall in love with nature. A place of stillness where silence becomes audible. A place where the mysteries of nature are embraced. A place where there is no why, and you remember the things you thought you forgot. A place to be humbled and amazed, where you breathe the air of birds, where you dance on the bottom of the sea, where you look through the eyes of a cheetah where animals are the storytellers, and man the apprentice. A place of refuge, a place of bliss, a place of hope, a place to dream, a place to make a wish, a place that is not about possessing but about sharing, a place that changes your heart.
There is such a place.
~Gregory Colbert


Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.
~Sri Aurobindo

The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?
~Jeremy Bentham

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

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
~Charles Darwin

I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.
~Leonardo Da Vinci

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

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us the 'Universe', a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.
~Albert Einstein

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
~James A. Froude

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated... I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.
~Mahatma Gandhi

In fact, if one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be cruelty, but where a lot of people are unkind to animals, especially in the name of commerce, the cruelty is condoned and, once large sums of money are at stake, will be defended to the last by otherwise intelligent people.
~Ruth Harrison

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
~?

How good it is to be well-fed, healthy, and kind all at the same time.
~Henry J. Heimlich

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

If you visit the killing floor of a slaughterhouse, it will brand your soul for life.
~Howard Lyman

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 anything else.
~Rabbi Moses ben Maimon

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian. We feel better about ourselves and better about the animals, knowing we're not contributing to their pain.
~Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney

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.
~Dean Ornish

When I was old enough to realize that all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like bullies would take control of younger kids in the school yard.
~River Phoenix

It seems disingenuous for the intellectual elite of the first world to dwell on the subject of too many babies being born in the second- and third-world nations while virtually ignoring the over-population of cattle and the realities of a food chain that robs the poor of sustenance to feed the rich a steady diet of grain-fed meat.
~Jeremy Rifkin

Until he extends the circle of compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
~Albert Schweitzer

Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.
~Albert Schweitzer

The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret . . . It has come to believe that compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
~Albert Schweitzer

We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?
~George Bernard Shaw

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
~George Bernard Shaw

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
~Harriet Beecher Stowe

I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement to leave off eating animals.
~Henry David Thoreau

Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
~Elie Wiesel

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of man.
~Emile Zola

But where was I to start? The world is so vast, I shall start with the country I knew best, my own. But my country is so very large. I had better start with my town. But my town, too, is large. I had best start with my street. No, my home. No, my family. Never mind, I shall start with myself.
~Elie Wiesel

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity.
~George Bernard Shaw

Auschwitz begins whenever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they are only animals.
~Theodor Adorno

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity.
~George Bernard Shaw

As long as there is conscious life on Earth, there will be suffering. The question becomes what to do with the existence each of us is given. We can choose to add our own fury and misery to the rest, or we can set an example by simultaneously working constructively to alleviate suffering while leading joyous, meaningful, fulfilled lives. Being a vegan isn't about deprivation or anger. It's about being fully aware so as to be fully alive.
~Matt Ball

I believe animals should be respected as citizens of this earth. They should have the right to their own freedom, their own families, and their own life.
~John Feldmann

Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test, consists of its attitude toward those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect, human kind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
~Milan Kundera

Drinking cow milk has been linked to iron-deficiency anemia in infants and children; it has been named as the cause of cramps and diarrhea in much of the World's population and the cause of multiple forms of allergies as well.
~Dr. Frank Oski

I think the evidence is pretty clear. If you look at various characteristics of carnivores versus herbivores, it doesn't take a genius to see where humans line up.
~William C. Roberts

Isn't man an amazing animal? He kills wildlife - birds, kangaroos, deer, all kinds of cats, coyotes, beavers, groundhogs, mice, foxes and dingoes - by the million in order to protect his domestic animals and their feed. Then he kills domestic animals by the billion and eats them. This in turn kills man by the millions, because eating all those animals leads to degenerative - and fatal - health conditions like heart disease, kidney disease, and cancer. 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 Coats

I know in my soul that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten, and who never has a chance to be a real being, is unhealthy...You're just eating misery.
~Alice Walker

Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.
~Dalai Lama

In order to satisfy one human stomach, so many lives are taken away. We must promote vegetarianism. It is extremely important.
~Dalai Lama

Today more than ever before life must be characterized by a sense of Universal Responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.
~Dalai Lama

Just as you have the instinctive natural desire to be happy and overcome suffering, so do all sentient beings; just as you have the right to fulfill this innate aspiration, so do all sentient beings.
~Dalai Lama

Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Expediency asks the question - is it politic? Vanity asks the question - is it popular? But conscience asks the question - is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right.
~Martin Luther King Jr.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
~Martin Luther King Jr.

What do they know - all these scholars, all these philosophers, all the leaders of the world - about such as you? They have convinced themselves that man, the worst transgressor of all the species, is the crown of creation. All other creatures were created merely to provide him with food, pelts, to be tormented, exterminated. In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka.
~Isaac Bashevis Singer

When non-vegetarians say that human problems come first, I cannot help wondering what exactly it is that they are doing for human beings that compels them to continue to support the wasteful, ruthless exploitation of farmed animals.
~Peter Singer

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
~Albert Schweitzer

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
~Margaret Mead

As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.
~Isaac Bashevis Singer

There will come a time when the world will look back to modern vivisection in the name of science, as they do now to burning at the stake in the name of religion.
~Professor Henry J. Bigelow

My biggest dream in the world is for everyone to become vegetarian, so that there won't be any more suffering.
~Alicia Silverstone

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
~Mark Twain

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
~Alice Walker

To become wholly compassionate requires us to open our eyes and hearts, to behold the pain and exploitation our culture obscures, to arouse deadened emotions, and to rise above our egos.
~Joanne Stepaniak

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
~Samuel Butler

How can you eat anything with eyes?
~Will Kellogg

A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children.
~David Brenner

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
~Robert Louis Stevenson

Vegetarianism is harmless enough though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
~Robert Hutchison

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
~Isaac Bashevis Singer

My perspective of veganism was most affected by learning that the veal calf is a by-product of dairying, and that in essence there is a slice of veal in every glass of what I had thought was an innocuous white liquid - milk.
~Rynn Berry

Vegetarians taste better.
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The human body has no more need for cows' milk than it does for dogs' milk, horses' milk, or giraffes' milk.
~Michael Klaper

Tongue - a variety of meat, rarely served because it clearly crosses the line between a cut of beef and a piece of a dead cow.
~Bob Ekstrom

I will not eat anything that walks, runs, skips, hops or crawls. God knows that I've crawled on occasion, and I'm glad that no one ate me.
~Alex Poulos

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....
~Henry David Thoreau

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

I just could not stand the idea of eating meat - I really do think that it has made me calmer.... People's general awareness is getting much better, even down to buying a pint of milk: the fact that the calves are actually killed so that the milk doesn't go to them but to us cannot really be right, and if you have seen a cow in a state of extreme distress because it cannot understand why its calf isn't by, it can make you think a lot.
~Kate Bush

"Thou shalt not kill" does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings; and this Commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai.
~Leo Tolstoy

As soon as I realized that I didn't need meat to survive or to be in good health, I began to see how forlorn it all is. If only we had a different mentality about the drama of the cowboy and the range and all the rest of it. It's a very romantic notion, an entrenched part of American culture, but I've seen, for example, pigs waiting to be slaughtered, and their hysteria and panic was something I shall never forget.
~Cloris Leachman

We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do. Cruelty... is a fundamental sin, and admits of no arguments or nice distinctions. If only we do not allow our heart to grow callous, it protests against cruelty, is always clearly heard; and yet we go on perpetrating cruelties easily, merrily, all of us - in fact, anyone who does not join in is dubbed a crank.
~Rabindranath Tagore

It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.
~Percy Bysshe Shelley

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body.
~Mahatma Gandhi

Can you really ask what reason Pythagoras had for abstaining from flesh? For my part I rather wonder both by what accident and in what state of soul or mind the first man did so, touched his mouth to gore and brought his lips to the flesh of a dead creature, he who set forth tables of dead, stale bodies and ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived. How could his eyes endure the slaughter when throats were slit and hides flayed and limbs torn from limb? How could his nose endure the stench? How was it that the pollution did not turn away his taste, which made contact with the sores of others and sucked juices and serums from mortal wounds?
~Plutarch

I do not like eating meat because I have seen lambs and pigs killed. I saw and felt their pain. They felt the approaching death. I could not bear it. I cried like a child. I ran up a hill and could not breathe. I felt that I was choking. I felt the death of the lamb.
~Vaslav Nijinsky