What is your favorite quote about vegetarianism?

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 millions in order to protect his domestic animals and their feed. Then he kills domestic animals by the billions 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 a card praying for “Peace on Earth.”

-C. David Coates

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

-Albert Einstein

"The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak would finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism."

--George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

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Leonard Da Vinci: "Truly man is a the kind of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places!"

Pythagoras: "As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who shows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love."

Albert Einstein: "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 [hu]mankind"

George B. shaw: "When a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity."

Ben Franklin: Flesh eating is unprovoked murder."

Isaac B singer: "When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice. Man prays for mercy, but is unwilling to extend it to others. Why then should man expect mercy from God? It's unfair to expect something that you are not willing to give."

J.H. Kellogg: "A dead cow or sheep lying in the pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food!"

Quotes from a more bizarre view: In the strict scientific sense we all feed on death - even vegetarians. ~Mr. Spock, Star Trek, "Wolf in the Fold" I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician. ~Marty Feldman From a more thinking and serious view: "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 One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying himself with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle. ~Henry David Thoreau "I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts. For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity." ~ Ecclesiastes 3:18-19

"The question is not 'Can they reason?' nor 'Can they talk?' but 'Can they suffer?'" JEREMY BENTHAM.

And this one from the late and great RIVER PHOENIX

"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.”

I like the one by George Bernard Shaw. It hits the nail on the head.

I'm a vegetarian, because I choose not to make my body a graveyard for the rotten corpses of murdered animals.

Basically the whole Smiths song "Meat is Murder" ::

"Heifer whines could be human cries"

"This beautiful creature must die

A death for no reason

And death for no reason is murder"

"Do you know how animals die?"

"who hears when animals cry?"

''I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look on the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men''.- Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)