Ethical Eating Quotes

When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

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

If the vegan diet doesn't work out for you, at least you can do something for animals - whether that's the way you eat or the way you dress, everything helps, really.

Vegetarian is the New Prius!

I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.

It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.

I'm a vegan. It makes me feel really good and bright.

I'm part-time vegan. I try to be vegan when I can. But I dip and dive in everywhere.

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.

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

When I see bacon, I see a pig, I see a little friend, and that's why I can't eat it. Simple as that.

I'm a vegetarian - I think there's a strong possibility, had I not become a vegetarian, I would not be working now. I became a vegetarian about 25 years ago, and I did it out of concern for animals. But I immediately began having more energy and feeling better.

I've been vegan since I got out of the hospital... It's another eye opener. It changed my life in a number of ways.

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food, because ...its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling - killing.

I'm a vegan now, and I've never felt better in my life. In my life.

I like animals, all animals. I wouldn't hurt a cat or a dog - or a chicken or a cow. And I wouldn't ask someone else to hurt them for me. That's why I'm a vegetarian.

The ultimate tendency of liberalism is vegetarianism.

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

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.

I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else.

I don't like the idea of beating birds. I'm vegetarian.

My own view is that being a vegetarian or vegan is not an end in itself, but a means towards reducing both human and animal suffering and leaving a habitable planet to future generations.

The nature of human beings is to eat meat and fruits and vegetables, and therefore we have to kill animals. I don't have a problem with that. But it's a sacred moment. It's a gift of life.

I'm low-maintenance. And I'm not going vegan.