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I have now been vegetarian for 2 years now + Gluten-free and alcohol free for 3 years. Never felt better in my life...It helps to know I am in good company with my decision ;-)
Peace...
Albert Einstein:
“Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for
survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.”
Bob
Marley:
“I-man
say don’t make Jah body a graveyard for de dead animals!”
Leonardo DaVinci:
“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.” DaVinci claimed that flesh eaters were using their bodies as “grave yards.”
“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.” DaVinci claimed that flesh eaters were using their bodies as “grave yards.”
Charles Darwin:
“The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.”
“The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.”
Thomas Edison:
“Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of
all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still
savages.”
George Bernard Shaw:
“We pray on Sundays that we may have light to guide our
footsteps on the path we tread; We are sick of war we don’t want to fight. And
yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley:
“Let the advocate of animal food force himself to a decisive
experiment on its fitness, and as Plutarch recommends, tear a living lamb with
his teeth and, plunging his head into its vitals slake his thirst with the
steaming blood.”
Henry David Thoreau:
“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 when they came in contact with
the more civilized.”
Mark Twain:
“It is just like man’s vanity and impertinence to call an animal
dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.”
Benjamin Franklin:
“Flesh eating is “unprovoked murder.” On the subject of
vegetarianism, Franklin noted that one will achieve “greater progress, from the
greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension.”"
Thomas A. Edison, 1847-1931:
“The Doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will
interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause
and prevention of disease.”
Francis of Assisi:
“Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but
to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission-to be of service to them
wherever they require it.”
Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi:
“To my mind the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of
a human being. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it
is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.”
Abraham Lincoln:
“I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is
the way of a whole human being.”
Thomas Paine:
“Everything of persecution and revenge between man and man, and
everything of cruelty to animals, is a violation of moral duty.”
Henry Salt:
“The emancipation of men from cruelty and injustice will bring
with it in due course the emancipation of animals also. The two reforms are
inseparably connected, and neither can be fully realized alone.”
Albert Schweitzer:
“…the time is coming when people will be amazed that the human
race existed so long before it recognized that thoughtless injury to life is
incompatible with real ethics. Ethics is in its unqualified form extended
responsibility to everything that has life.”
George Bernard Shaw:
“Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human
knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.”
“A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.”
“Animals are my friends; I don’t eat my friends.”
“A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.”
“Animals are my friends; I don’t eat my friends.”
Leo Tolstoy:
“If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of
abstinence is from injury to animals.”
Alice Walker:
“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were
not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites, or women
created for men.”
Abraham Lincoln:
“I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the
better for it.”
Pythagoras:
“Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul.”
“The earth affords a lavish supply of richess of innocent foods,
and offers you banquets that involve no bloodshed or slaughter; only beasts
satisfy their hunger with flesh, and not even all of those, because horses,
cattle, and sheep live on grass.”
John Robbins (p. 49 Diet for a New America):
“Our understanding of what constitutes intelligence is utterly
relative. If an aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, for example, all of Western
civilization would probably flunk. We have a very convenient and self-serving
way of defining intelligence. If an animal does something, we call it instinct.
If we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.”
In addition to his writings on non-violence, Leo Tolstoy’s
advocacy of vegetarianism led to his friendship with Mohandas Gandhi. He wrote
several essays about vegetarianism, but perhaps never more compellingly than
when he said: “flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance
of an act, which is contrary to moral feeling: killing.”
Nikola Tesla was a humanitarian who loved animals. He argued
that animal slaughter was “wanton and cruel” and eventually became a
vegetarian.
Voltaire was an advocate of civil rights and freedom. He also
believed in the virtues of vegetarianism. He once wrote that “men fed upon
carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and arid blood
which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.” This sounds like an early
precursor of the phrase “you are what you eat.”
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