Judith Durham Quotes

I became a vegetarian at 15. I was always an animal lover and, as a teenager, became increasingly uncomfortable with the idea of eating meat. It was then that I started to research vegetarianism.

Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.

I didn't grow up eating meat - I was a vegetarian until I was 18.

I only eat meat if I go to a nice restaurant and there is an exceptional dish, or if I'm at somebody's home for a dinner, I'll eat whatever is in front of me. Otherwise, I don't eat anything that walks around and has a face.

It occurred to me that I just didn't see how I could go ahead and continue to eat meat. It just seemed so... cannibalistic to me. And so, I'm a vegetarian, and I have been ever since.

Being a vegetarian really saves lives.

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

I'm so trying to give up meat.

Most people see a documentary about the meat industry and then they become a vegetarian for a week.

I stopped eating beef in high school, and in college I stopped eating poultry. I am not a huge fan of factory farming and what we're doing to animals. I try to eat as clean as possible because I want to know what I'm putting into my body.

The kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat eating as if it's a way to care about things, but also not to alienate yourself from the rest of the world. But it's so much more alienating than vegetarianism.

I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.

If people learned what they were contributing to every time they ate meat, eggs, or dairy, surely they would be just as motivated as I was to change.

When I was young, I would gorge on chicken. But for the last several years, I've been a pure vegetarian; I don't even take egg.

I know that as a vegan, I'm in a minority. People love their meat. It's up there with sugar and TV and maybe even coffee on the list of inalienable American rights.

I grew up in Texas, eating meat five times a day, and I liked meat. But I began being a vegetarian when I was 19 because I found that I felt better.

I'm not telling people to go vegan overnight.

I've been a vegetarian since I was about 12 years old. When I became a vegetarian, I got my mom and dad to become vegetarian, and my brother became a vegetarian.

At this point, I wouldn't be able to digest meat, and I don't like eating things with faces.

I've been a vegetarian since I was 19.

When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not.

In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.

One hates to be absolute, but in my view, there is no such thing as humane meat.

We should propagate the values of vegetarianism.

I'm a vegetarian, but I don't expect other people not to eat meat.