Morarji Desai Quotes

My parents, along with my brother and sister, are vegetarians.

I wasn't raised a vegetarian. I wish I was, though. I mean, that's really the best way to go. I just learned at a young age and stopped eating some things.

You're never going to persuade a meat-eater to become a vegetarian on taste grounds. They're completely different. One is a cleaner, fresher taste: it hasn't got that bass-note beefiness.

Cutting meat out of your diet is the best thing you can do for animals and your own health.

I'm so trying to give up meat.

In terms of personal choices, let's all think more carefully about where we get our protein from.

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

We should propagate the values of vegetarianism.

No, I'm not a vegetarian. I do eat that way. I actually eat vegan quite a lot. I feel better when I eat that way, and I think there's been a lot of proof that's come up over the last however many years, that you can't deny, I don't think, that meat or dairy aren't all that good for us.

I try to eat mostly vegan.

I don't eat red meat anymore.

My wife Marina likes salad and fish and I have reduced my meat consumption to just three times a week. It wouldn't take much to go vegetarian and I may well make that decision soon.

Is it hard to be vegan? Absolutely not. It would be hard to not be vegan.

I think people should eat vegetarian food for 20 days and then see the glow on their faces.

I'm not going to comment on whether I support vegetarianism or non-vegetarianism; it's just that I feel I'm fit because I'm a vegetarian.

Every time we sit down to eat, we make a choice. Please choose vegetarianism. Do it for animals. Do it for the environment and do it for your health.

That's the nice thing about being a vegetarian. You don't have to be neurotic. Selective omnivores have to be neurotic. Personally, I don't have time for all that; I don't want to get into it.

I think that if a person wants to remain vegetarian, they're just going to have to go hungry.

Stop being a vegan and start enjoying what you eat.

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

It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.

Being a vegetarian really saves lives.

I'm not telling people to go vegan overnight.

I'm not really vegan. I'm vegan-ish. I have a piece of lamb every now and then.

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.