(글모음)VeganQuotes/채식명언
"진실로 인간은 동물의 왕이다. 왜냐하면, 인간의 잔인성이 동물을 능가하기 때문이다. 우리는 다른 생명체의 죽음을 통하여, 살아가는 살아있는 묘지이다."
/Leonardo da Vinci 레오나르도 다빈치
"나는 어렸을 때, 고기를 먹지 않겠다고 결심했으며, 동물을 죽이는 것을 살인처럼 여겨질 날이 올 것이다."
/Leonardo da Vinci 레오나르도 다빈치
“The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but "Can they suffer?”
"중요한 것은 그들이 이성이 있는가, 말을 할 수 있는가가 아니다. 중요한 것은 동물들도 우리들처럼, 고통을 느낀다는 것이다."
/Jeremy Bentham 제레미 벤담
“By buying meat, eggs and dairy products, you're paying for cruelty.
"고기, 계란, 유제품을 사는 것은 동물학대에 돈을 지불하는 것과 같다."
/Peter Dinklage 피터 딘클리지
"As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields"
"도살장이 존재하는 한, 전쟁은 사라지지 않을 것이다."
/Leo Tolstoy 레오 톨스토이
"우리는 말못하는 순진무구하고 죄없는 동물들을 살인범, 강간범 보다도 더 나쁘게 대한다."
/미상
"만약, 죄없는 사람에게 고통을 가하는 것이 나쁘다면, 역시 죄없는 동물에게 고통을 가하는 것은 나쁘다."
/Richard D. Ryder 리차드 디. 라이더
"인간 자신이 살해당한 동물들의 무덤인데, 어떻게 이 지구에 이상적인 사회가 건설될 것인가? 동물은 인간의 생명의 친구이다. 나는 친구를 먹지 않는다."
/George Bernard Shaw 조지 버나드 쇼
"우리가 식인종에 대해 역겨워 하듯이, 미래의 사람들은 우리를 고기먹는 사람이라 부르며 역겨워 할 것이다."
/Dennis Weaver 데니스 위버
"지금은 고기 안먹는 사람을 이상하게 생각하지만, 훗날에는 고기먹는 사람을 이상하게 생각할 것이다."
/랠프 트라인
"인류 역사상, 전쟁으로 죽은 사람은 5억명이다. 하지만 우리는 음식을 위해, 매일 5억 이상의 동물들을 죽이고 있다."
/미상
"오늘날 공장식 축산은 인류역사상 가장 끔찍한 범죄중의 하나이다."
/Yuval Noah Harari(유발 하라리)
"홀로코스트(HOLOCAUST)는 아직도 끝나지 않고 우리 곁에 남아 있다. 다만, 대상이 인간에서 동물로 바뀌었을 뿐이다."
/미상
"높은 문화와 문명 수준을 가진 우리의 조상들이 동물들을 먹었다는 사실을 믿을 수가 없다."
/미래 세대(Future Generations)
"모든 동물의 생명은 소중하다. 나는 동물의 생명을 빼앗지 않을 것이다. 사회적 약자인 동물은 인간의 포악함으로부터 더욱 보호되어야 한다."
/Mahatma Gandhi 마하트마 간디
"힘없는 약자일수록 더욱 더 보호되어야 한다."
/미상
"우리는 고기 한조각을 먹기 위하여, 한 영혼으로부터 태양 빛, 공기 그리고 그가 세상에 행복하기 위해 태어났던 모든 생명과 시간을 빼앗는다."
/Plutarch 플루타크
"육식주의(CARNISM, 카니즘)은 육식은 정상적이고(Normal), 자연스러우며(Natural), 필요하다는(Necessary) 이른바 3N으로 우리를 끊임없이 세뇌시키고 있다."
/멜라니 조이
"동물이 인간보다 덜 고통스럽다고 생각하지 말라. 고통은 인간과 동물을 구별하지 않는다. 오히려 동물들은 스스로를 설명하거나, 스스로 돕지 못하기 때문에 더 고통스럽다."
/ Louis J 루이스 제이
"세상의 모든 존재는 그들 고유의 이유를 가지고 존재한다. 흑인이 백인을 위해 창조된 것이 아닌 것처럼, 여자가 남자를 위해 창조된 것이 아닌 것처럼, 동물도 인간을 위해 창조된 것이 아니다."
/앨리스 워커
“People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.”
"사람들은 동물을 먹는 것은 당연하다고 이야기한다. 그 논리에 의하면, 오래전부터 있어왔던 살인을 막을 수 없을 것이다."
/Isaac Bashevis Singer 아이작 싱어
“I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.”
나는 나의 건강을 위해 채식을 하지 않았다. 나는 동물들을 위해 채식을 실천하였다.
/Isaac Bashevis Singer 아이작 싱어
"당신이 고기를 먹는다면, 당신은 환경운동가가 될 수 없다. 공장식 축산은 그 어떤 산업보다도 환경을 많이 파괴하기 때문이다."
/미상
“To be a vegetarian is to disagree - to disagree with the course of things today... starvation, cruelty - we must make a statement against these things. Vegetarianism is my statement. And I think it's a strong one.”
"채식주의자가 된다는 것은 전쟁, 폭력, 학대, 잔인함, 차별, 낭비, 기아에 반대하는 것이다."
/Isaac Bashevis Singer 아이작 싱어
"인간이 동물들을 대하는 태도를 보면, 마치 나치(Nazi)처럼 보인다. 동물들에게 인간은 나치처럼 보일 것이다."
/Isaac Bashevis Singer 아이작 싱어
"실로 끔찍한 것은, 인간이 아무런 주저함도 없이 동물에 대한 연민과 자비심을 짓뭉개고, 잔인한 폭력을 행사한다는 사실이다."
/레오 톨스토이
“생각하는 존재인 인간은 모든 살려고 하는 의지에게 자신에게 부여했던, 생명에의 경외를 부여하지 않으면 안된다. 인간은 다른 생명체 또한 살려고 애쓴다는 것을 자기 안에서 경험한다."
/알버트 슈바이처
"생명을 유지하고 생명을 고양시키는 것을 선으로, 반대로 생명을 파괴하고 생명에 해를 끼치는 것을 악으로 본다. 이것이야말로 도덕의 절대적이고 기본적인 원리이다.”
/알버트 슈바이처
"나는 생각한다. 고로, 나는 채식주의자이다."
/미상
"동물의 고통이 이 세상에서 완전히 사라지지 않을 것이다. 그러나, 동물의 고통과 죽음이 '나'때문은 아니어야 한다."
/에디 라마
"우리 몸은 살해당한 동물들의 무덤이다."
/레오나르도 다빈치
"동물도 우리 인간처럼, 고통과 행복을 느낀다. 더 이상 무슨 말이 필요한가."
/미상
"채식주의는 희생이 아니라, 기쁨이다."
/게리 프란시온
"당신에게는 한끼의 식사에 불과하지만, 그들에게는 하나뿐인 삶이다."
/미상
"동물들도 우리처럼, 공포와 배고픔, 고통과 아픔, 행복을 느끼는 존재라는 것을 알았을때, 나는 채식주의자가 되었다."
/시져 셔브즈
"우리의 삶이 중요하듯이, 그들의 삶도 중요하다."
/미상
"모든 생명이 건강하고, 모든 생명이 평화롭고, 모든 생명이 안전하고, 모든 생명이 행복할 지어라."
/미상
"동정심을 가진 사람이라면, 죽은 동물의 살점을 볼때 겁에 질리고 메스껍지 않을 수 없다. 그러나 육식이 습관이 되어 버렸고, 지각있는 사람들의 동정심을 뭉개버렸다.
사람들의 미각은 비정상적으로 타락했으며, 죽은 동물 시체의 맛과 냄새에 대한 취향이 자리잡게 되었다.
도축된 동물을 먹는 사람들은 고기를 먹지 않으면, 뭘 먹어야 할지 상상조차 못한다. 그들은 원래 야채를 먹어야 하는데, 그 대용으로 고기를 먹는다는 사실을 깨닫지 못하는 것이다.
자연은 썩은 시체가 아닌, 풍부한 영양을 주는 먹을거리를 충분히 인간에게 제공해주고 있다. 동물의 시체를 먹는것은, 혐오할만한 불쾌한 식사법이다.
사람들은 오래전부터 육식 습관이 자리잡아, 자신의 뱃속을 죽은 동물의 무덤으로 만드는 기괴한 짓이 몸에 배어 있다."
/헬렌 니어링
"비건(vegan)은 우월한 것이 아니다. 인간이 동물보다 우월하다고 생각하지 않기 때문에, 비건(vegan)이 되는 것이다."
/미상
"채식의 물리적인 효과만도 인류 문명에 유익한 영향을 줄 것이다. 채식이 사람의 성격에 가져다 주는 변화는 인류에게 대단히 유익하다."
/알버트 아인슈타인
"만약, 당신이 동물에 대한 폭력 사진을 보고 싶지 않다면, 사진 보는 것을 그만 둘 것이 아니라, 그 폭력을 그만 두도록 도와야 한다."
/조니 뎁
"당신이 동물의 고통을 보고 느낀다면, 두번 다시 고기를 먹고 싶지 않을 것이다. 우리의 혀를 위해서, 다른 동물의 생명을 빼앗지 말자."
/Kim Basinger 킴 베이싱어
"나의 동물에 대한 존중과 동정심, 연민은 멀리 바다 동물에게도 미친다. 돌고래에서 어류, 바다가재에까지... 그래서 나는 동물을 먹지 않는다"
/Alexandra Paul 알렉산드라 폴
"인간의 뱃속에 다른 동물의 시체를 밀어 넣는 것이 얼마나 기괴한 일인지, 사람들은 깨닫지 못한다. 인간은 죽은 동물들의 묘지이다."
/피타고라스
"오늘날, 우리는 동물학대의 99%를 음식으로 한다."
/미상
"나는 50년전에 고기먹는 것을 중단했다. 접시위에 놓인 돼지 살점을 보고, 그것은 공포와 고통, 죽음 그 자체라고 생각했다."
/제인 구달
"언젠가 내가 낚시를 할때, 물고기의 눈에 낚시바늘을 꽂아 올린 적이 있다. 그리고 그것이 내가 동물을 먹은 마지막이었다."
/Janet Barkas, editor of Grove Press 자넷 바카스
"음식으로 동물을 사용하는 것은, 건강에도 좋지 않을 뿐아니라 동물학대 그 이상도, 그 이하도 아니다."
/Moby 모비
"당신이 아기 요람속에 사과와 토끼를 집어넣었을 때, 아기가 토끼를 먹고 사과는 가지고 논다면,
내가 당신에게 벤츠를 한대 사주겠소"
/하비 다이아몬드
"나는 동물들이 가장 순수한 영혼을 가지고 있다고 생각한다. 그들은 가장 사랑스러운 피조물이다."
/미상
"고기는 몸에도 좋지 않을 뿐 아니라, 동물을 학대하고 죽인 결과물이다."
/케이시 플럭
"육식을 피하라. 그리고, 죄 없는 생명을 죽이고 즐기는 그 마음을 버려라."
/스트루웨
"매일 폭력으로 물들어진 식사를 하면서, 비폭력을 이야기하기는 어렵다."
/게리 프란시온
"저주 받아야 할 세 가지 습관이 있다. 육식과 담배와 술이 그것이다. 이 세 가지 습관은 우리의 인생에서 행복의 가능성을 멀게 한다."
/아놀드 힐스
"한 나라의 위대함과 도덕성은 동물을 대하는 것을 보면 알 수 있다. 나약한 동물일수록, 인간의 잔인함으로부터 더욱 보호되어야만 한다."
/마하트마 간디
"힘없고 나약한 자를 괴롭히는 것이, 더 나쁜 짓이다."
/제럴드 커틀러
In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. I can still remember as a boy the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughterhouse.
"유토피아의 세계에는 고기가 없다. 나는 소년이었을 때, 마지막 도살장의 문을 닫는 즐거움을 여전히 기억할 수 있다."
/H G Wells (A Modern Utopia) 웰즈
"문제는 당신의 편견(prejudice)때문입니다. 종차별주의(speciesism)를 중단해주세요!"
/미상
"사람들은 고기를 오래전부터 먹어왔기 때문에, 고기를 먹는 것이 정당하다고 말한다. 그러면 살인, 강간, 전쟁도 정당한걸까. 이들도 오래전부터 존재했기 때문이다."
/Isaac Singer 아이작 싱어
"한 아이에게 벌레를 밟지 말라고 가르치는 것은, 벌레를 위한 것만큼이나 그 아이를 위해서도 소중한 가르침이다."
/브래드리 밀러
"계란을 얻기 위해, 닭들을 좁은 철창에 움직일 수 조차 없게 집어넣고, 닭들은 걷거나 뛰거나 날개조차 펼 수 없게 되었다. 닭들에 대한 고통과 고문을 중단하여야 한다."
/미상
"내가 비건(vegan)이 된 것을 후회한 적이 없다. 오히려, 좀더 일찍 비건이 되지 못한 것을 후회할 뿐이다."
/미상
"말 못하는 동물에게 잔인하게 대하는 것은 비열하고 비겁한 짓이다."
/윌리엄 존스
"우리 삶의 중요한 목적은 그들을 돕는 것이다. 만약 그렇게 할 수 없다면, 적어도 그들을 해쳐는 안된다."
/달라이 라마
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian. We feel better about ourselves and better about the animals, knowing we're not contributing to their pain.
"만약 도살장이 유리벽으로 되어 있다면, 많은 사람들이 채식주의자가 될 것이다."
/Paul McCartney 폴 매카트니
“As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.”
"우리 인간이 칼 또는 총을 가지고, 우리보다 약한 동물들을 죽이는 한, 이 지구상에 진정한 정의는 없다."
/Isaac Bashevis Singer 아이작 바세비스 싱어
"채식주의는 인도주의의 가장 중요한 기준이다."
/레오 톨스토이
"살아있는 모든 피조물을 향한 사랑은 인간의 가장 고결한 특징이다."
/찰스 다윈
I would not want to get to know a pig very well if I intended to eat him.
"나는 돼지에 대해 잘 알고 싶지 않을 것이다. 만약, 내가 그를 먹으려 한다면.."
/Pat Leigh 패트 레이
"오늘날 어미 돼지들은 평생 임신틀에 갇혀, 걷거나 뛰지도 못하면서, 죽을때까지 강제 임신과 출산을 반복하며 살아가고 있다."
/미상
"육식을 끊기 위해서는, 주위 사람들의 비난, 공격, 조소를 이겨낼 용기를 가져야 한다. 가령 육식이 아무렇지도 않은 일이라면, 육식주의자들이 채식주의자를 공격할 까닭은 없다.
육식주의자들은 초조해 하고 있다. 이미 오늘날에 있어서는 그들은 육식의 죄악을 깨닫고 있으나,
그 죄악에서 자기 자신의 힘으로 벗어날 수 없음을 알고 있기 때문이다."
/미상
"나는 우리 인간의 의식이 발전하여, 동물을 먹지 않는 날이 언젠가 올 것이라고 믿는다."
/Henry David Thoreau 헨리 데이비드 쏘로우
"채식주의는 이 지구에서 의식적으로 깨어 살아가는 방법이다."
/Amy Smart 에이미 스마트
"동물들을 배터리 케이지에 감금하여 사육하는 것은, 분명하고도 명백한 동물학대이다."
/미상
"인간은 동물들을 노예처럼 억압하고 착취하고 살해한다. 만약, 동물들이 말을 할 수 있다면, 인간을 악마로 부를 것이다."
/윌리엄 랠프
"We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear."
"우리는 우리와 같은 기호와 열정과 신체기관을 가진 다른 생명체의 시체를 소비한다. 그리고 도살장을 매일 매일, 고통과 공포로 채운다."
/Robert Louis Stevenson 로버트 루이스 스티븐슨
"모든 고기들이 죽임을 당한 동물이라는 것을 깨달았을 때, 그것은 마치 학교에서 불량배들이 어린 학생들을 폭력으로 제압하는 것과 같다고 생각했다."
/River Phoniex 리버 피닉스
"우리의 자비와 연민의 한계를 살아있는 모든 생명들로 넓히지 않는 이상, 우리는 진정한 평화를 찾을 수 없을 것이다."
"우리는 동물을 먹지 않고도 건강하게 살 수 있다. 따라서 고기를 먹는다는 것은 단지, 그의 입맛을 위해 동물의 생명을 빼앗은 것이다."
/Leo Tolstoy 레오 톨스토이
Everything revolves around the fork.
"세상의 모든 것은 포크에 달려있다."
/Howard Lyman 하워드 리만
"그들도 신(神)의 창조물이다. 그들을 해치거나 죽이지 말아야 한다."
/미상
"동물들도 우리 인간처럼, 고통과 행복을 느낀다는 사실을 존중하지 않는 인간에 대해, 나는 어떠한 이해도 할 수 없다."
/Alicia Silverstone 알리시아 실버스톤
"모든 생명은 폭력을 두려워 한다. 죽음을 두려워하고 그들의 삶을 사랑한다. 그러한 그들은 어떻게 해칠 수 있는가."
/붓다
"나는 채식주의자가 되고 더 강하고 건강하고 행복해졌다. 세상에서 채식주의자가 되는 것보다 더 좋은게 있을까"
/Alicia Silverstone 알리시아 실버스톤
"비폭력은 인간이외의 다른 동물들에 대해서도 악의가 없어야 한다. 그것이야 말로, 진정한 비폭력이다."
/마하트마 간디
"인간이 억압과 착취, 폭력으로부터 해방되는 것은, 당연히 동물의 해방을 수반할 것이다. 그 둘은 서로 연결되어 있어서 따로 분리할 수 없기 때문이다."
/Henry Salt 헨리 솔트
"왜 고기를 먹지 않느냐고 묻기 이전에, 왜 고기를 먹느냐고 자신에게 먼저 물어보라"
/미상
"모든 피조물을 사랑하게 될 때, 피조물을 창조하신 하느님의 신비로움을 이해할 수 있다."
/도스토예프스키
"나는 눈이 있는 생명체를 먹지 않기로 했다."
/Will Kellogg 윌 켈로그
"오늘날 새끼 돼지들은 아무런 마취제나 진통제없이, 산 채로 꼬리와 이빨이 잘리고, 거세당한다."
/미상
"인간의 동물에 대한 착취와 학살은 히틀러가 유대인에게 자행한 대학살과 다를 바가 없다."
/찰스 패터슨
"비건(vegan)이 된다는 것은 강인한 체력을 만드는 데에 가장 효과적이다. 뿐만 아니라, 그것은 매우 인도적인 일이기도 하다."
/데이비드 카터 NFL선수
"새장 속의 새는 그 빨간 가슴에 분노를 가득 담고, 하늘을 바라보네."
/윌리엄 블레이크
"진정한 영웅은 약자를 괴롭히는 것이 아니라, 약자를 돕는 것이다."
/미상
"동물들은 선택권이 있지만, 당신은 선택권이 있다. 동물들의 삶이 당신의 선택에 달려 있다."
/케이시 에이플럭
러시아의 위대한 문호인 레프 톨스토이가 집에서 저녁파티를 열었다. 그는 채식가였으며, 한 명의 숙녀 이외의 손님들도 또한 채식가였다. 채식을 하지 않은 숙녀의 식탁에는 아무것도 없었다. 그녀의 의자에는 살아있는 닭 한 마리가 꼬꼬댁거리고 있었다. 톨스토이는 다음과 같이 말했다. "나는 마음이 내키지 않아서 닭을 잡지 못했으니 육식을 하시는 부인께서 닭을 잡으시지요."
/레오 톨스토이
"만약 신(神)이 공정하다면, 우리 인간이 몹시 걱정된다."
/미상
"물고기는 고통과 아픔에 비명을 지른다. 다만, 인간이 듣지 못할 뿐이다."
/미상
"정의로운 인생을 추구하는 사람이라면, 첫번째 행동은 사회적 최약자인 동물을 괴롭히는 행위를 하지 않는 것이다."
/레오 톨스토이
"나는 비건(vegan)이다. 나는 동물성 제품을 먹지 않는다. 나는 윤리, 환경, 그리고 기후의 이유로
동물성 제품을 사용하지 않는다."
/그레타 툰베리
"대체 인간은 어떤 감정, 마음, 이성을 가졌는지 의아하다. 움직이고, 지각하고, 목소리를 가진 것들을 죽여 그 시체를 식탁에 펼쳐 놓고, 그걸 맛좋은 식사라고 말하는 인간이 아닌가?
/플루타크 (육식에 대하여)
"오늘날 미국에서 생산되는 곡물의 70%를 고기를 얻기 위해, 동물들에게 먹이고 있다. 이는 8억명을 먹여 살릴 수 있는 충분한 양이다."
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"인간 동물의 친구인 비인간 동물들도 두려움, 공포, 통증을 느낀다. 나는 이들에게 고통을 주지 않기로 결심하였다. 그리고 나는 비건(vegan)이 되었다."
/레이 에이런
"인간이 동물들을 대량학살하는 한, 그들은 서로를 죽일 것이다. 살해와 고통의 씨앗을 뿌리는 자는 결코 행복과 사랑을 수확할 수 없다."
/피타고라스
"우리는 과학이라는 이름으로, 스포츠라는 이름으로, 패션이라는 이름으로, 그리고 음식이라는 이름으로 동물을 착취하는 행위를 즉각 중단하여야 한다."
/시저 샤베즈
"인간과 동물은 기쁨과 고통, 행복과 슬픔을 느낀다는 점에서 근본적으로 동일하다."
/찰스 다윈
“Veganism is a social justice issues that says animals are individuals with the ability to feel pain and emotions therefore deserve to live free of exploitation.”
– Matt Ruscigno
"비거니즘(Veganism)은 동물들도 고통을 느끼고, 그러므로 착취로부터 해방되어야 한다는 사회적 정의이다."
“Once I became aware of the ethical issues, the only path possible was to choose to behave in a way that does not harm others.”
– David Simon
"다른 존재에 해를 끼치지 않는 것이 진정한 윤리라고 생각한다."
/데이비드 사이먼
“Veganism is the Swiss Army Knife of the future. A profoundly useful instrument to help solve our ethical, economic, environmental, water, health problems – and end animal cruelty forever.”
– Philip Wollen
"비거니즘(Veganism)은 윤리, 경제, 환경, 물, 건강 문제 그리고 동물학대를 끝낼 수 있는 만능 도구이다."
“The world population that matters isn’t just eight billion humans, it’s also hundreds of billions of non-human animals and a vast number of future generations. They may all suffer if we don’t act today.”
– Adriano Mannino
"우리 지구는 80억명의 인구 뿐 아니라 수백억의 비인간 동물, 그리고 미래의 수많은 생명들과 연결되어 있다. 그리고 오늘 우리가 행동하지 않으면, 그들 모두는 고통을 받을 것이다."
/애드리노 매니노
“My milk is for my babies; why would I steal another baby’s milk?”
– Nafsika Antypas
"나의 모유는 나의 아기를 위한 것이다. 왜 내가 다른 아기의 우유를 훔쳐야 하는가?"
/나프시카 엔디퍼스
“None of us are perfect, but we can each strive to do better in our lives, and being vegan has been one way for me to do that.”
– Paul Shapiro
"이 세상에 그 누구도 완전한 사람은 없다. 다만 더 나은 삶을 위해 노력할 뿐이다. 그리고 비건(vegan)이 된다는 것은 그것을 위한 하나의 방법이다."
/폴 샤피로
“Real men don’t eat meat. Real men stand up for those who can’t stand up for themselves.”
– Andrew Taylor
"진짜 사나이는 고기를 먹지 않는다. 진짜 사나이는 자신을 옹호하지 못하는 이들을 대변하는 것이다."
/앤드류 테일러
“We were all born with a natural sense of ethics and empathy. We all know and acknowledge that cats, dogs, and dolphins have a personality, it’s time to remember that all other animals are also our friends, and not things and numbers.”
– Thomas Majchrzak
"우리는 윤리와 감성을 가지고 태어난다. 그리고 동물들도 개별적인 고유성을 가지고 있다. 그들은 사물이나 번호가 아닌 우리의 친구라는 사실을 우리는 이제는 깨달아야 한다."
/토마스 마치르작
“I ask for a vegan world, one filled with peace, love, respect, fairness and equality for all.”
– Fiona Oakes
"평화와 사랑, 존경과 공정 그리고 평등으로 가득찬 비건(Vegan)세상을 원한다."
/피오나 옥스
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"분명, 인간은 육식을 하도록 만들어지지 않았다. 송곳니와 굽은 갈퀴가 있어야 먹이를 잡아서 찢을 수 있는데, 인간은 그런 것을 갖고 태어나지 않았다. 인간의 부드러운 손은 과일과 야채를 따기에 적당하고, 치아는 그것을 씹어 삼키기에 적당하다."
/존 레이
"The thing that has been weighing on my mind this week is that I wanted to go and save all the little live lobsters in restaurants and throw them back in the ocean. Imagine me being arrested for that".
이번주 내내 내머리속에 자리잡고 있는 하고 싶은 일은 내가 밖으로 나가 레스토랑에 있는 모든 살아있는 바다가재들을 구출하고 그들을 바다로 돌려보내는 일이다. 그리고 그것으로 인해 내가 체포되는 것을 상상해보라.
/Drew Barrymore 드류 베리모어
"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."
육식하는 사람의 평균수명은 63세이다. 나는 85세이고 여전히 예전처럼 열심히 일한다. 나는 너무 오래 살아왔고 죽으려고 노력하고 있다. 그러나 나는 그렇게 쉽게 죽지 못한다. 한 조각의 고기스테이크가 나를 죽여버릴수 있다. 그러나 나는 그것을 삼키지 못한다. 나는 영원히 살게 될까 두렵다. 그것이 채식주의의 유일한 단점이다.
/George Bernard Shaw 조지 버나드 쇼
"게를 산 채로 뜨거운 물에 넣고, 가재를 쇠꼬챙이에 꿰어 구우면 비명이 들리는 듯하다. 장어와 잉어는 뜨거운 팬을 피해 팔딱대다가 불구멍 속으로 떨어진다."
/윌리엄 킹
"아무에게 해를 끼치지 않는 순진한 것들을 왜 그리 잔인하게 죽이는가. 가축들은 일을 덜어 주고,
몸을 감쌀 옷을 주며, 먹을 젖을 주지 않던가. 그들에게 무얼 더 바라는가? 땅은 인간이 먹기에 충분한 곡물과 과일을 주지 않는가?"
/플루타크
Being around all the animals in the film Dr.Doolittle made me one too.
닥터 둘리틀이라는 영화에서 모든 동물들에게 둘러싸여 있는 것이, 나를 채식주의자로 만들었다.
/Semantha Eggar 세만타 에거
If any kid ever realized what was involved in factory farming they would never touch meat again.I was so moved by the intelligence,sense of fun and personalities of the animals I worked with on Babe that by the end of the film I was a vegetarian.
만약 어떤 아이도 동물농장에 가 본다면, 다시는 고기를 입에 대지 않을 것이다. 나는 영화의 끝에 바베에서 일하면서, 동물들의 지성과 유머감각과 개성에 매우 감동받아, 나는 채식주의자가 되었다.
/James Cromwell 제임스 크롬웰
Thier were no Slaughterhouses in the Garden of Eden.
"에덴 동산에는 푸줏간이 없다."
/Unknown 미상
"매일 헤아릴 수 없이 많은 동물들을 죽인다. 양심의 가책이나 후회도 없이..."
/로맹 롤랑
"비록 다른 동물들이 인간이 하듯이 사유하거나 말하지는 못한다 하더라도, 그것이 우리가 동물들을 우리 마음대로 처분할 수 있는 권리를 주는 것은 아니다. 여전히 동물들이 우리처럼 고통과 아픔을 느낄수 있다는 진실은 남아있다."
/Nathaniel Altman 나타니얼 알트먼
"성자는 인간에게 매우 애정넘치며 온화하다. 그리고 동물들에게는 더욱 그러하다. 확실히 우리는 동물들에게 여러 가지 이유로 친절하고 온화하게 대하여야 한다. 그러나 무엇보다 그들이 우리와 동일한 기원을 갖고 있기 때문에 그렇다."
/St. John Chrysostom 성 존 크리소스텀
“Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life.”
친절함은 인생의 모든 것이다.
/Isaac Bashevis Singer 아이작 싱어
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"We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear. "
"우리는 우리와 같은 기호와 열정과 신체기관을 가진 생명체의 시체를 소비한다. 그리고 도살장을
매일매일 고통과 공포로 채운다."
/Robert Louis Stevenson 로버트 루이스 스티븐슨
"I'm 23 now, and I've grown into this woman. I feel sexy and more mature. I wanted these inside changes to be reflected in both my look and music. I am a vegan now, and it was a conscious decision. I studied a lot about African culture and health and the best way to take care of the body. I really wanted to be healthy. At first I was just trying to challenge myself; I thought it was a phase and that I would grow out of it, but it wasn't. I found out a lot about the body and what [hormones] they put in meat. My taste buds started changing, and I didn't crave [meat and dairy products] anymore."
"나는 지금 23살이고 자라서 이런 여자가 되었다. 나는 매력을 느끼고 더 성숙하였다. 나는 이러한 내부의 변화들이 나의 외모나 음악 모두에 반영되기를 원했다.
나는 지금 채식주의자이고, 그것은 의식적인 결정이었다. 나는 아프리카 문화와 건강 그리고 건강을 지키는 최선의 길에 대해서 많이 공부했다.
나는 정말 건강해지기를 원했다. 우선 나는 나자신에게 도전하려 노력했다: 나는 그것이 한 국면이라고 생각했고 나는 그것으로부터 성장해나와야한다고 생각했다.
그러나 그렇지 않았다. 나는 몸과 무슨 호르몬이 고기에 들어있는지에 대해서 많은 것을 발견하였다. 내 입맛을 변화하기 시작하였고, 나는 더 이상 고기와 유제품을 먹고싶어하지 않는다."
/Brandy 브랜디
"People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's not as bad as mass animal death in a factory."
"사람들은 동물권리에 대한 캠페인에 화가 나있다. 이는 우스운 일이다. 이는 공장에서 대량으로 동물을 죽이는 것처럼 나쁘지 않기 때문이다."
-Richard Gere 리차드 기어
"I'm stopped. I'll never eat another burger".
"나는 멈춰졌다. 나는 다시는 버거를 먹지않을 것이다."
/Oprah Winfrey 오프라 윈프리
The world's environment can no longer handle beef.
세상의 환경은 더 이상 고기를 취급할 수 없다.
/Jeremy Rifkin of Beyond Beef 제레미 리프킨
Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them. the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.
많은 것들이 나를 채식주의자로 만들었다. 그것들 중에는 세상의 기아의 해결책으로서의 더 많은 식량의 생산이 있다.
/John Denver 존 덴버
40 years ago on the set of Gunsmoke I read the book The Holy Science. Since then I have not eaten meat.
40년전에 Gunsmoke세트에서 경건한 과학이라는 책을 읽었다. 그때부터 나는 고기를 먹지 않고 있다.
/Dennis Weaver 데니스 위버
So you are the people tearing down the Brazilian rainforest and breeding cattle.
당신은 브라질의 열대우림을 파괴하고 가축을 먹이던 사람이다.
/Prince Philip to McDonald's of Canada 캐나다의 맥도널드를 향해 필립왕자
The awful cruelty and terror to which tens of thousands of animals killed for human food are subjected in traveling long distances by ship and rail and road to the slaughterhouses of the world. God disapproves of all cruelty.. whether to man or beast. The occupation of slaughtering animals is brutalising to those who are required to do the work.... I believe this matter is well worthy of the serious consideration of Christian leaders.
인간의 식량으로 쓰이기 위해, 죽임을 당한 수만의 동물들에 대한 지독한 잔혹함과 테러는 해운 그리고 기차 그리고 도로를 이용하여 도살장으로 가는 긴 여행에 놓여있다.
신은 모든 잔인함에 대하여 인정하지 않는다. 인간에 대한 것이든 동물에 대한 것이든..도살업은 그일을 하여야 하는 사람에게도 잔인한 짓이다.
나는 이 점이 크리스천지도자들에 심각하게 고려하여야 할 점이라고 믿는다.
/Mrs. Booth and General Bramwell Booth of the Salvation Army
I went snorkeling and noticed how gently the fish welcomed us into their world..
as compared to the violence with which we welcomed them into ours. I became a vegetarian.
내가 스노클을 하고 헤엄쳐갔을 때, 나는 물고기들이 얼마나 친절하게 우리를 그들의 세계로 온 것을 환영하는 지 목격했다. 우리가 그들을 우리의 세계에 환영하는 방법인 폭력과는 대조적으로. 나는 채식주의자가 되었다.
/Syndee Brinkman 신디 브리크만
May those who oppose capital punishment for humans extend that protection to animals as well . May those who oppose germ and other biological warfare work to end the unconscious biological warfare unwittingly waged on those who eat animal products. Those who are prolife would logically become vegetarian. Those who are prochoice would not want to impose their wills upon the body of a cow, sheep or pig.
인간에 대하여 사형을 반대하는 사람들이 동물들에 대해서도 그러하기를. 세균전을 반대하는 사람들이 고기를 먹는 사람들에게 무의식적으로 일어나는 세균전을 끝내기를.
임신중절합법화에 반대하는 사람은 필연적으로 채식주의자가 된다. 임신중절합법화지지자는 그들의 의지를 소, 양, 돼지의 몸에 강제하기를 원하지 않을것이다.
/Unknown 미상
Thousands of animals (now billions) are butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. It cries vengeance upon all the human race.
수천의 (지금은 수십억의) 동물들이 매일 가차없이 도살된다. 이는 모든 인류에게 복수를 울부짓는다.
/Romain Rolland 로메인 롤랜드
We should live in harmony with Earth not conquer it.. or the animals. The other members of the National Football League say I'm in the minority.. but they are. A majority of the world is vegetarian.
우리는 지구상에서 조화롭게 살아야지, 지구나 동물들을 정복하여서는 안된다. 국가축구리그의 다른 멤버가 나에게 나는 소수파라고 하였다. 그러나 그들 역시 그렇다. 지구상의 다수는 채식주의자이다.
For many years the media have been afraid of the Goliath power of the meat industry. (But David is coming!)
오랜 세월동안 미디어는 육식 산업의 골리앗적인 거대한 힘에 두려움을 느껴왔다.(그러나 다윗의 세월이 오고있다)
/Pegeen Fitzgerald of WOR TV and Radio in NY
I spoke often in Congress against the war in Vietnam. and commented on congresspersons hiding from the reality of war by saying 'many eat the meat but few go to the slaughterhouse'. I said it so often I became a vegetarian.
나는 의회에서 자주 베트남전쟁에 반대하였고, 의원들이 '많은 사람들이 고기를 먹지만 소수의 사람이 푸주간에 간다'고 말하면서 전쟁의 실상을 감추는 것에 대해 발언해왔다.
Rep. Andrew Jacobs.. formerly of Indianapolis
The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. If beef is your idea of "real food for real people," you'd better live real close to a real good hospital.
육류 산업은 미국인의 죽음에 이 세기의 전쟁들보다, 모든 자연재해보다, 그리고 자동차 사고들보다 더 기여하여 왔다.
만약 육류가 당신의 '진짜 사람을 위한 진짜 음식'이라면 당신은 정말 좋은 병원 가까이 사는 것이 좋겠다.
/Neal D. Barnard, M.D., President Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine 닥터 닐 디. 버나드 책임있는 치료를 위한 의사회 회장
I grew up in cattle country-that's why I became a vegetarian. Meat stinks, for the animals, the environment, and your health.
나는 목장지대에서 자랐다. 그것이 내가 채식주의자가 된 이유이다. 육식은 동물들에게도 환경에도 당신의 건강에도 나쁜 영향을 미친다.
/K.D. Lang 랭
Compassion is the foundation of everything positive, everything good. If you carry the power of compassion to the marketplace and the dinner table, you can make your life really count.
동정심은 모든 긍정적임과 선의 기초이다. 만약 당신이 이러한 동정심의 힘을 시장과 당신의 저녁 테이블에도 발휘한다면, 당신의 삶은 진실로 값질 것이다.
/Rue McClanahan 루 맥클라한
We stopped eating meat many years ago. During the course of a Sunday lunch we happened to look out of the kitchen window at our young lambs playing happily in the fields. Glancing down at our plates, we suddenly realised we were eating the leg of an animal who had until recently been playing in a field herself. We looked at each other and said: "Wait a minute, we love these sheep-they're such gentle creatures. So why are we eating them?" It was the last time we ever did.
우리는 몇해전에 고기 먹기를 그만두었다. 어느 일요일 점심식사중 우리는 부엌 창문 너머로
어린 양들이 행복하게 들판에서 노닐고 있는 것을 보게 되었다.
우리의 접시를 내려다 보았을 때, 우리는 갑자기 우리가 바로 직전까지 들판에서 놀고 있던 동물의 다리를 뜯어 먹고 있다는 것을 깨달았다.
우리는 서로를 쳐다보며 말했다:" 잠깐만, 우리는 저 양들을 사랑해. 저들은 아주 온화한 동물이야. 그런데 우리가 왜 저들을 먹고 있지?" 그것이 우리가 고기를 먹은 마지막 순간이었다.
/Paul and Linda McCartney 폴과 린다 매카트니 부부
"Prince Charming is very nice and very honest and very confident in who he is and funny and knows how to have a kick-ass fun time. Is willing to melt away so that nothing else exists in the world except himself and his princess and loves food and cats and every life form except human beings which is not necessary."
차밍왕자는 매우 친절하고 정직하며 그 자신에 대해 자부심을 갖고 있으며 유머가 있어, 어떻게 즐거운 시간을 보낼지 아는 사람이다.
세상에서 그 자신만 남고 모두 사라지게 하여, 그의 공주와 음식과 고양이와 인간을 제외한 모든 살아있는 것들이 사라지게 하는 것은 불필요하다.
/Alicia Silverstone 알리샤 실버스톤
"You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed In the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity."
당신은 방금 저녁식사를 하였다. 그리고 아무리 수마일 멀리 도살장을 철저하게 감춘다고 하여도, 공모가 있다.
/Ralph Waldo Emerson 랄프 왈도 에머슨
"Do we, as humans, having an ability to reason and to communicate abstract ideas verbally and in writing, and to form ethical and moral judgments using the accumulated knowledge of the ages, have the right to take the lives of other sentient organisms, particularly when we are not forced to do so by hunger or dietary need, but rather do so for the somewhat frivolous reason that we like the taste of meat? In essence, should we know better?"
인간으로서 사유하고 추상적인 개념들을 말로 글로 표현할 수 있고, 또 몇세대들이 쌓아둔 지식들을 이용하여 윤리적이고 도덕적인 판단을 할 수 있는 능력을 가진 우리가 배고픔으로 인한 식사의 욕구에 의해서가 아니라, 단지 고기맛을 좋아한다는 사소한 이유로 인해, 의식이 있는 다른 생명체의 생명을 뺏을 권리를 가졌는가? 요점을 말하면, 우리가 더 잘 아는가?
/Peter Cheeke 피터 체케
"Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics."
동물농장은 우리의 윤리보다 기술적인 능력이 더 빨리 발전했다는 것을 말하는 추가적인 증표이다.
/Peter Singer 피터 싱어
"I don't eat chicken anymore. I won't eat it. I won't allow it in my house."
나는 닭고기를 더 이상 먹지 않는다. 앞으로 먹지 않을 것이다. 내 집안에서는 허락할 수 없다.
/Rodney Leonard -U.S. Poultry inspection 로드니 레오나드 -미연방 가축 검사자
"Based on my experience in Los Angeles, my advice to the public is not to eat meat."
로스앤젤레스에서의 나의 경험에 기초하여 나는 대중들에게 고기를 먹지 말 것을 권유한다.
/Gregorio Natavidad-meat inspector그레고리 나타비다드-고기 검사자
"When we kill animals to eat them they end up killing us because their flesh...was never intended for human beings, who are naturally herbivores."
우리가 동물을 먹기 위해 죽일때, 그 동물들은 결국 우리를 죽게 하는 것으로 끝날 것이다. 왜냐하면 그들의 고기는 인간을 위해 만들어진 것이 아니기 때문이다. 인간은 본질적으로 채식동물이기 때문이다.
/William C. Roberts, M.D 의학박사 윌리엄 씨. 로버트
The transition of world agriculture from food grain to feed grains represents an...evil whose consequences may be far greater and longer lasting than any past examples of violence inflicted by men against thier fellow human beings.
세계 농업이 곡식경작에서 목장으로 전환한 것은 악을 대표하고 있는 것이다. 이것의 결과는 지난날 인간이 자신의 동료인간에게 가했던 어떠한 폭력의 예보다 더 강하고 오래 지속될 것이다.
/Jeremy Rifkin 제레미 리프킨
Vegetarians always ask about getting enough protein. But I don't know any nutrition expert (who) can plan a diet of natural foods resulting in a protein deficiency, so long as you're not deficient in calories. You need only 5 or 6 percent of total calories in protein... and it is pratically impossible to get below 9 percent in ordinary diets.
채식주의자들은 언제나 프로틴을 충분히 섭취할 것을 요구한다. 그러나 칼로리가 부족하지 않는한 프로틴이 부족한 식단을 짜는 영양전문가는 없다. 당신에게는 프로틴의 전체 칼로리 중 5내지 6퍼센트만 있으면 된다. 그리고 일반적인 식단에서 9퍼센트 이하를 섭취하는 것은 불가능하다.
/Nathan Pritikin 나탄 프리티킨
Kids nowadays...tend to go overboard [on] protein --- something I believe to be totally unnecsssary...[I state in] my formula for basic good eating: Eat about one gram of protein for every two pounds of body weight.
요즘 아이들은 프로틴--내가 생각하기에는 전혀 불필요한 물질인--을 너무 많이 섭취하는경향이 있다. (내가 공식화해 둔) 좋은 식단은 : 자신의 신체 체중의 2파운드당 1그램의 프로틴을 섭취하는 것이다.
/Arnold Schwarzenegger 아놀드 슈왈제네거
Excessive animal protein is at the core of many chronic diseases.
동물프로틴의 과다 섭치는 많은 심장질환의 핵심요인이다.
/Dr.Campbell 챔벨 박사
Yes, sometimes unusual things happen after a switch to a vegetarian diet. I've seen a number of cases in which the poor people broke out in violent attacks of good health,followed by bouts of physical exercise and sweet thoughts.
그렇다, 가끔은 채식주의식단으로 바꾸고 나서 이상한 현상이 생기기도 한다. 나는 운동후에 너무 좋은 건강상태로 인해 허약한 사람들에게 심각한 무리가 생기는 것을 여러번 본 적 있다.
/Anonymous 미상
The standard four food groups are based on American agricultural lobbies. Why do we have a milk group? Because we have a National Dairy Council. Why do we have a meat group? Because we have an extremely powerful meat lobby.
4대 음식그룹의 기준은 미국농업로비에 기초하여 있다. 우리에게는 왜 우유그룹이 있는가? 왜냐하면 그것은 우리에게는 전국 유제품 위원회가 있기 때문이다. 왜 우리에게는 육류그룹이 있는가? 그것은 우리에게 강한 육류로비집단이 있기 때문이다.
/Marion Nestle 매리언 네슬레
If you step back and look at the data, the optimum amount of red meat you eat should be zero.
만약 당신이 한걸음 물러나서 자료를 살펴본다면, 당신이 먹어야할 육류의 적정량은 0이다.
/Dr.Walter Willet 왈터 윌렛 박사
Vegetarians have the best diet. They have the lowest rates of coronary disease of any group in the country....Some people scoff at vegetarians, but they have a fraction of our heart attack rate and they have only 40 percent of our cancer rate. They outlive other men by about six years now.
채식주의자들은 가장 좋은 건강상태를 지니고 있다. 그들은 우리 나라 어떤 그룹보다 낮은 심장병 발생율을 보이고 있다. 어떤 사람은 채식주의자들을 비웃는다.
그러나 그들은 심장병 발생율의 몇분의 일만큼만을 보이고 있고, 암발생율의 40%밖에 그들에게서는 발생하지 않는다. 그들은 지금 다른 사람들보다 6년이나 오래 살고 있다.
/Dr.William Castelli,M.D. 의학박사 윌리엄 카스텔리
Whether industralized societies...can cure themselves of thier meat addictions may ultimately be a greater factor in world health than all the docters,health insurance policies,and drugs put together.
문명화된 사회가 그들의 고기먹는것에 대한 집착을 고칠 수 있는지 여부가 인류건강에 있어서 어떠한 의사나, 건강보험정책 그리고 약품들을 다 합친 것보다 중요한 요소이다.
/The China-Oxford-Cornell Project on Nutrition 영양에 대한 중국-옥스퍼드-코넬 프로젝트
I was raised on a dairy farm and ate plenty of meat and eggs until about twenty years ago. I started doing nutritional research, and a decade pr so after that my family made some major dietary changes. I'm just paying attention to what the data are telling me: The scientific evidence came first.
나는 약 20년 전까지 유제품농장에서 자랐고 많은 고기와 달걀을 먹었다. 나는 영양가조사를 시작하여 10가지의 홍보를 하였는데 그때부터 우리가족은 아주 큰 식단 변화가 있었다. 나는 단지 자료가 말하는 것에 집중하였을 뿐이다: 과학적인 증거가 우선시 되었다.
/T. Colin Campbell 티. 콜린 캠벨
There is strong medical evidence that complete freedom from eating animal flesh or cow's milk products is a gateway to optimal nutritional health.
동물고기나 유제품을 전혀 먹지 않는 것이 최선의 건강상태로 가는 길이라는 것에 대한 강력한 의학적 증거가 있다.
/Dr.Klaper 클라퍼 박사
Would you like to go to pasture with a chicken,cut him up, then drop him into a fresh manure pile, and eat him? That's what the project is like coming from chicken plants today.
닭과 함께 목장에 가서 그 닭을 자른 후, 신선한 비료 더미에 넣고 나서 그 닭을 먹어 보겠는가?
이것이 바로 오늘날 닭농장에서 일어나고 있는 일이다.
/Chicken Inspector 닭 조사관
I'm ashamed to even let people know I am a Usda inspector. There are thousands of diseased and unwholesome birds going right on down the line.
나는 사람들이 내가 미농림성의 검사관이라는 것을 아는 것조차 부끄럽다. 조사결과 안전하다고 하는 닭고기들에는 병들고 견강에 해로운 닭고기들이 수천마리나 있기 때문이다.
/Poultry Inspector 가축 검사관
I know hundreds of people who have spent years and thousands of dollars on tests looking for ulcers or spastic bowels. I tell them to lay off all dairy products for two weeks. The results are usually so striking that it changes thier lives.
나는 궤양과 장염에 실험하기 위하여, 시간과 수천 달러의 돈을 허비하고 있는 수 많은 사람들을 알고 있다. 나는 그들에게 2주간 유제품을 그만 먹으라고 말한다. 그 결과는 그들의 인생을 바꿀 만큼 대부분 강렬하다.
/David Jacobs 데이비드 야곱
An important fact to remember is that all natural diets, including purely vegetarian diets without a hint of dairy products, contain amounts of calcium that are above the treshold for meeting your nutritional needs....In fact,calcium deficiency caused by an insufficient amount if calcium in the diet is not known to occur in humans.
기억해야 할 중요한 사실은 모든 자연적인 식단은, 유제품하나 섞이지 않은 순 채식위주의 식단을 포함한, 영양소를 골고루 포함하고 있다는 것이다. 사실 칼슘부족은 인간에게는 일어나지 않는 현상이다.
/John McDougall 존 맥도갈
There exists a substantial body of competent and reliable scientific evidence that eating eggs increases the risk of heart attacks or heart disease....This evidence is systematic,consistent,strong,and congruent.
달걀을 먹는 것이 심장발작과 심장병을 유발시킬 가능성을 증가시킨다는 것에 대한 실직적인 신체능력과 신뢰할 만한 과학적 증거가 존재한다. 이러한 과학적 증거는 체계적이고 일률적이며 강력하고 집합적이다.
/Judge Ernest G. Barnes 어니스트 지. 바네스 판사
"Our food system takes abundant grain,which people can't afford,and shrinks it into meat,which better-off people will pay for."
우리의 식량시스템은 사람들이 감당할 수 없을 만큼의 방대한 곡식을 보유하고 있다. 그리고 우리의 식량시스템은 부자들이 값을 치르는 고기산업으로 줄어들고 있다.
/Frances Moore Lappe 프란세스 무어 라페
The fact is that there is enough food in the world for everyone. But tragically, much of the world's food and land resources are tied up in producing beef and other livestock--food for the well off--while millions of children and adults suffer from malnutrition and starvation.
진실은 세상에는 모든 사람이 먹을 수 있는 식량이 존재하고 있다는 것이다. 그러나 비극적이게도 세상의 식량과 땅이 많은 부분이 고기와 다른 가축--부자들을 위한 식량인--을 생산하기 위해 묶여져 있다는 것이다. 반면에 수백만명의 아이들과 어른들이 영양실조와 기아로 고통받고 있다.
/Dr.Walden Bello 왈던 벨로 박사
The American fast food diet and the meat eating habits of the wealthy around the world support a world food system that diverts food resources from the hungry.A diet higher in whole grains and legumes and lower in beef and other meat is not just healthier for ourselves but also contributes to changing the world system that feeds some people and leaves others hungry.
미국의 패스트푸드식단과 세계부자들의 고기먹는 습관은 세계의 식량시스템이 가난한 자들로부터 식량자원을 빼돌리게 만든다. 곡식류를 많이 사용하고 고기를 조금 사용하는 식단은 건강에 좋을 뿐만 아니라, 어떤 사람은 건강하게 하고 어떤 사람은 배고프게 하는 세계적인 시스템을 변화시키는 데에도 기여한다.
/Dr.Walden Bello 왈던 벨로 박사
I'm a big health food freak and a vegetarian devotee.
나는 대단한 건강음식광이며 채식주의광이다.
/Chelsea Clinton 첼시 클린턴
On going vegetarian." I was sitting here eating my plate of chicken salad, and suddenly I looked down and saw all the meat on my plate and just wasn't hungry anymore. So i've decided I'm not going to eat meat.
채식주의가 될때. 나는 여기에 앉아서 치킨 샐러드를 먹고 있었다. 갑자기 내가 내 접시를 내려다 보았을때 나는 더 이상 배고프지 않게 되었다. 그래서 나는 앞으로 고기를 먹지 않겠다고 결심했다
/Shiri Appleby 시리 애플비
I think there's something odd about eating another living anything.
다른 살아있는 생명체를 먹는다는 것은 이상한 일이라고 생각한다.
/Shania Twain 샤니아 트웨인
Nothing?s changed my life more. I feel better about myself as a person, being conscious and responsible for my actions and I lost weight and my skin cleared up and I got bright eyes and I just became stronger and healthier and happier. Can?t think of anything better in the world to be but be vegan.?
어떠한 것도 내 삶을 더 이상 변화시키지 못한다. 나는 인간으로서 나 자신에 대해 더 큰 자긍심을 갖고 있다. 나는 내 행동에 대해 의식적이고 책임을 진다.
그리고 나는 몸무게를 줄였고 내 피부는 깨끗해 졌으며 나는 맑은 눈동자를 갖게 되었다. 그리고 나는 더 강하고 건강하고 행복해졌다. 세상에 채식주의자가 되는 것보다 더 좋은 게 있을까.
/Alicia Silverstone 알리샤 실버스톤
It does take a little work to be a vegetarian… but it?s so worth it, oh it?s so worth it!
채식주의가 되는데는 조금의 노력이 필요하다..그러나 그것은 그럴만한 가치가 있다. 그것은 정말 그만한 가치가 있다.
/Tippi Hedren 티피 헤드렌
There‘s so many (vegetarian) foods now that are available at the market . The same with drive-throughs. Now, a lot of them serve veggie burgers just like the restaurants are doing. So, it’s really very easy.
지금은 시장에서 채식주의에 필요한 음식을 얼마든지 살수 있다. 차를 타고 주문하는 식당에서도 마찬가지이다. 지금은 그들중 많은 곳에서 레스토랑에서 그러하듯이 채식주의 버거를 팔고 있다.
그래서 채식을 하기가 정말 쉽다.
/Kevin Nealon 켈빈 닐온
Vegetarianism… that is me. I don‘t eat meat. It‘s been over 10 years. Actually it’s been 11 and a half years and I feel good and I feel like I look good and I have energy… and you have to look at what you’re putting in your body. I eat vegetables and I eat grain and I take care of myself and I don‘t think I look that bad, do I?
채식주의...그것이 나이다. 나는 고기를 먹지 않는다. 나는 10년이상 그래왔다. 정확하게 11년하고 반년이다.
그리고 나는 기분이 좋고 내가 건강해보이고 열정적으로 보이는 것이 좋다. 그리고 당신은 당신이 당신 몸안에 넣고 있는 것이 무엇인지 보아야 할 필요가 있다.
나는 채소를 먹는다 그리고 나는 곡식을 먹는다. 그리고 나는 나자신을 돌보며 내가 건강이 나빠보인다고 생각하지 않는다. 그렇지 않나?
/Tracy Bingham 트레시 비그함
I became a vegetarian in 1958 and it was very difficult in those days to really maintain that because there weren‘t many options… alternatives. But, now, it’s a growing trend because… the economics are there. See, there‘s simply enough people demanding it that it’s profitable to supply vegetarians with those products.
나는 1958년에 채식주의자가 되었고 그 시절에는 채식주의를 유지하는 것이 무척 힘든 일이었다.
왜냐하면 그때는 선택권이나 대체물이 별로 없었기 때문이다.
그러나, 지금은 하나의 유행이 되었다. 왜냐하면 채식주의에 경제성이 존재하기 때문이다. 보아라, 지금은 채식주의 식품을 공급하는 것이 단지 이윤이 남기 때문에 수요하는 사람들이 많이 있다.
/Dennis Weaver 데니스 위버
I have been a vegetarian for about 10 years. And it really was due to the reading that I did. And they explain so that you understand why it‘s important for the planet’s survival along with compassion for animals. It certainly made it much easier for me. I lost weight really fast. My mother died from cancer so this is all very personal to me. And I just would like the planet to be a better place. And I think you‘ll find a vegetarian diet to be really incredible these days…
나는 약 10년 동안 채식주의자로 살아왔다. 그리고 그것은 내가 읽었던 책 때문이었다. 그 책에는 왜 지구의 생존을 위해 동물들에게 애정을 가지고 사는 것이 중요한지를 쉽게 설명하고 있다.
그것은 내게는 더 쉽게 느껴졌다. 나는 정말 빠르게 살을 뺐다. 내 어머니는 암으로 돌아가셨는데 그것이 내게는 매우 개인적인 일이었다.
그리고 나는 우리가 사는 세상이 더 좋은 세상이 되기를 바란다. 그리고 당신이 채식주의 다이어트가 오늘날 굉장히 각광받는 것을 알게될 것이라고 생각한다.
/Linda Blair 린다 블레이어
I‘ve been vegan for about 10 and a half years. It‘s been all good. I’m obviously much healthier
나는 10년하고 반년을 채식주의자로 살아왔다. 그것은 정말 좋다. 나는 명백하게 훨씬 더 건강하다.
/Woody Harrelson 우디 하렐슨
We find amongst animals, as amongst men, power of feeling pleasure, power of feeling pain; we see them moved by love and by hate; we see them feeling terror and attraction; we recognize in them powers of sensation closely akin to our own, and while we transcend them immensely in intellect, yet in mere passional characteristics our natures and the animals are closely allied. We know that when they feel terror, that terror means suffering. We know that when a wound is inflicted, that wound means pain to them. We know that threats bring to them suffering; they have a feeling of shrinking, of fear, of absence of friendly relations, and at once we begin to see that in our relations to the animal kingdom a duty arises which all thoughtful and compassionate minds should recognize?the duty that because we are stronger in mind than the animals, we are or ought to be their guardians and helpers, not their tyrants and oppressors, and we have no right to cause them suffering and terror merely for the gratification of the palate, merely for an added luxury to our own lives.
우리는 인간들에게서처럼 동물들에서도 즐거움을 느끼는 힘, 고통을 느기는 힘이 있다는 것을 안다. 우리는 동물들도 사랑과 미움이 있고 공포와 매력을 느낀다는 것을 안다.
우리는 그들의 감각이 우리의 감각과 아주 비슷하다는 것을 안다. 비록 우리의 지적 능력이 그들의 지적 능력보다 월등하다 해도 여전히 열정적인 특성에 있서는 우리의 본성이나 그들의 본성이 아주 비슷하다.
우리는 공포를 느낄 때 공포가 고통이라는 것을 안다. 우리는 상처가 났을 때 상처가 아프다는 것을 안다. 우리는 위협이 고통을 준다는 것을 안다.
위협으로 인해 떨고 두려워하며 친밀함이 없는 느낌을 갖게 된다. 그리고 동시에 지각 있고 사려깊은 사람이라면 누구나 우리가 동물왕국에서 의무를 지고 있다는 사실을 깨닫게 된다.
우리는 동물보다 정신적으로 더 강하기 때문에, 우리는 동물들의 폭압자나 억압자가 아니라 그들의 지키미이자 도우미가 되어야만 한다.
그리고 우리에게는 단지 우리의 미각을 위하여, 혹은 생활의 화려함을 위하여 동물들에게 공포와 고통을 가할 권리가 없다.
/Annie Besant 애니 베젠트
This [eating animals] appears from the frequent hard-heartedness and cruelty found among those persons whose occupations engage them in destroying animal life, as well as from the uneasiness which others feel in beholding the butchery of animals. It is most evident in respect to the larger animals and those with whom we have a familiar intercourse-such as oxen, sheep, and domestic fowls, etc. They resemble us greatly in the make of the body, in general, and in that of the particular organs of circulation, respiration, digestion, etc.; also in the formation of their intellects, memories and passions, and in the signs of distress, fear, pain and death. They often, likewise, win our affections by the marks of peculiar sagacity, by their instincts, helplessness, innocence, nascent benevolence, etc., and if there be any glimmering hope of an hereafter for them-if they should prove to be our brethren and sisters in this higher sense-in immortality as well as mortality, in the permanent principle of our minds as well as in the frail dust of our bodies-this ought to be still further reason for tenderness for them.
동물고기를 먹는 것은 자주 직업이 동물을 죽이는 것인 사람들에게서 나타나는 냉혈함과 잔혹함에서 또한 다른사람은 도살하는 것을 보며 느끼는 불쾌감에서 나타난다.
그것은 큰 동물들과 우리가 친밀한 교류를 하고 있는 소, 양, 그리고 집에서 기르는 조류들과 관하여는 가장 명백하다.
그들은 일반적으로 특정한 혈액순환기관, 호흡기관, 소화기관 등 몸의 구조가 우리와 아주 흡사하다.
또한 지각과 기억, 열정 그리고 고뇌, 공포, 고통과 죽음의 표시에 있어서도 그들은 우리를 무척 닮아 있다.
마찬가지로 그들은 자주 그들의 본능, 무력함, 순진함, 발생하는 자선 등으로 독특한 현명함을 보여 우리로 하여금 애정을 갖게 한다.
그리고 만약 그들에게 조금이라도 미래에 대한 희망이 있다면 - 만약 그들이 영속적인 것 뿐 아니라 영원한 것에서 -
영원한 우리의 정신의 원리뿐 아니라 우리 몸의 먼지에서도 - 이러한 높은 수준의 감각에서 우리 인간과 형제 또는 자매임을 증명할 수 있다면 -
이것은 더욱 더 우리가 그들에게 온화하게 행하여만 하는 이유가 된다.
/David Hartley 데이비드 하틀리 (1705-1757)
If the use of animal food be, in consequence, subversive to the peace of human society, how unwarrantable is the injustice and the barbarity which is exercised toward these miserable victims. They are called into existence by human artifice that they may drag out a short and miserable existence of slavery and disease, that their bodies may be mutilated, their social feelings outraged. It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery.
만약 동물을 식용으로 하는 것이 결국 인간 사회의 평화를 파괴시키는 것이라면, 이러한 불쌍한 동물들에게 부정과 포악함을 행하는 것은 얼마나 정당성이 없는 일인가.
그들은 인간의 술책으로 인하여 존재하도록 요구되어 진다. 따라서 그들은 예속되고 병든 상태로 아주 짧고 불행하게 살게 된다.
그들의 몸은 잘려지고 그들의 사회성은 폐허가 된다. 지각이 있는 존재로서는 완전한 불행속에서 사느니 처음부터 세상에 존재하지 않은 것만 못하다.
/Percy Bysshe Shelley 펄시 바쉬 쉘리(1792-1822)
"기억해야 할 중요한 사실은 모든 자연적인 식단은, 유제품하나 섞이지 않은 순 채식위주의 식단을 포함한, 영양소를 골고루 포함하고 있다는 것이다."
/John McDougall 존 맥두걸
"세상에는 모든 사람이 먹을 수 있는 식량이 존재하고 있다. 그러나 비극적이게도 세상의 식량과 땅의 많은 부분이 고기를 생산하기 위해 쓰여져 있다는 것이다. 반면에 수백만명의 아이들과 어른들이 영양실조와 기아로 고통받고 있다."
/Dr.Walden Bello 월든 벨로 박사
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VEGAN QUOTES, SAYINGS, AND SLOGANS
“I hold that the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man”
- Mahātmā Mohandas Gandhi
“Everything in food works together to create health or disease. The more we think that a single chemical characterizes a whole food, the more we stray into idiocy.”
- T. Colin Campbell
“I am a firm believer in eating a full plant-based, whole food diet that can expand your life length and make you an all-around happier person. It is tricky dining out, but I just stick to what I know – veggies, fruit and salad – then when I get home I’ll have something else.”
- Ariana Grande
“Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.”
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
“It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion towards our fellow creatures.”
- Mahātmā Mohandas Gandhi
“Almost as soon as I went vegan, people started telling me that my
skin looked great, and that I appeared younger, slimmer, and healthier. I’m convinced that of all the changes I’ve made to my lifestyle, it’s the adoption of a vegan diet that has been best for me – physically, mentally, and certainly spiritually.”
- Steve-O
“I think; therefore I’m vegan”
- Unknown
“When I turned vegan, I didn’t feel that way about every animal around. I’ve noticed it’s something that changes naturally. Nowadays I vacuum around a spider, catch flies to release them outside and let silverfish go about their business; a whole new world, a whole new-found mental peace.”
- Jaco van Drongelen
“It’s my firm intention to whop cancer into submission and I truly believe I’ve given myself the best start possible by radically overhauling my diet and by staying true to my motto, which is: Don’t worry, be happy, feel good. The first thing I did when I was diagnosed was to turn vegan.”
- Larry Hagman
“Going vegetarian – and then vegan – has calmed me down, and it has also made me physically and emotionally strong. I do crave meat once in a while, but I find that spiritually, non-vegetarian food works against my emotional health.”
- Kangana Ranaut
“My refusing to eat meat occasioned inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension.”
- Benjamin Franklin
“Veganism – Saving Millions One Bite At A Time”
- Unknown
“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. And to act so is immoral.”
- Leo Tolstoy
“Animals are my friends, and I don’t eat my friends.”
- George Bernard Shaw
“I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes. After all, man can live without meat. It is only some carnivorous animals that have to subsist on flesh.
“Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventures, and for hides and furs is a phenomenon which is at once disgusting and distressing. There is no justification in indulging in such acts of brutality. Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to a man.
“Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not to die, so do other creatures.”
- The Dalai Lama XIV
“Change What You Eat – Change The World”
- Unknown
“People eat meat and think they will become strong as an ox, forgetting that the ox eats grass.”
- Pino Caruso
“Being vegan helped me realize I can say and do what I believe is right. That’s powerful.”
- Alicia Silverstone
“Anyone who cares about the Earth – really cares – must stop eating animals.”
- Linda McCartney
“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.”
- Albert Einstein
“It is more important to prevent animal suffering, rather than sit to contemplate the evils of the universe praying in the company of priests.”
- Buddha
“If You Wouldn’t Eat A Cat, Why Eat A Cow?”
- Unknown
“Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.”
- Albert Schweitzer
“Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I’ve discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening.
“Our sustenance now comes from misery. We know that if someone offers to show us a film on how our meat is produced, it will be a horror film. We perhaps know more than we care to admit, keeping it down in the dark places of our memory – disavowed.
“When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.”
- Jonathan Safran Foer
“It takes nothing away from a human to be kind to an animal.”
- Joaquin Phoenix
“The vegan believes that if we are to be true emancipators of animals we must renounce absolutely our traditional and conceited attitude that we have the right to use them to serve our needs. We must supply these needs by other means.
“If the vegan ideal of non-exploitation were generally adopted, it would be the greatest peaceful revolution ever known, abolishing vast industries and establishing new ones in the better interests of men and animals alike.”
- Donald Watson
“No animals needs to die in order for me to live. And that makes me feel good.”
- Howard Lyman
“We all love animals. Why do we call some ‘pets’ and others ‘dinner’?”
- K.D. Lang
“Veganism is not a sacrifice, it’s a joy.”
- Gary L. Francione
“I dream of a vegan world – that’s where I want everything to go.”
- Gene Baur
“I’m a vegan. I respect the environment, and I do my best to spread the importance of such an issue.”
- Jared Leto
“YOU Have A Choice, They Don’t – Be Vegan”
- Unknown
“Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it’s not acceptable.”
-Jodie Foster
“To face animal suffering is to face our responsibility in their suffering.”
- JoAnne McArthur
“It’s pretty amazing to wake up every morning, knowing that every decision I make is to cause as little harm as possible. It’s a pretty fantastic way to live.”
- Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
“You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I’ll buy you a new car.”
- Harvey Diamond
“The vegan lifestyle is a compassionate way to live that supports life, supports fairness and equality, and promotes freedom.”
- Robert Cheeke
“Human beings have capitalized on the silence of animals, just as certain human beings have historically imposed silence on certain other human beings by denying slaves the right to literacy, denying women the right to own property, and denying both the right to vote.”
- Gary Steiner
“From the Buddhist point of view, all living beings – that is, beings with feelings, experiences, and sensations – are considered equal.
“Human beings can live without eating meat. As human beings, I think that deep down our nature tends towards vegetarianism and leads us to do everything in our power to prevent harming other species.”
- The Dalai Lama XIV
“Animal rights are not a gift we give to animals. They are a birthright we have taken from them.”
- Ryan Phillips
“Your perception of meat being nice is blurred by the likely fact that you are excluded from participating in, or even witnessing the untimely mortal demise of the animals you gluttonously devour.”
- Mango Wodzak
“Mainly I’m a vegan because I like animals, and I don’t want to be involved in their suffering. Also, it’s better for my health and for the environment.”
- Moby
“Being vegan is a glorious adventure. It touches every aspect of my life – my relationships, how I relate to the world.”
- Victoria Moran
“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.”
- Linda McCartney
“For as long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.”
- Pythagoras
“Being vegetarian here also means that we do not consume dairy and egg products, because they are products of the meat industry. If we stop consuming, they will stop producing. Only collective awakening can create enough determination for action.”
- Thich Nhat Hanh
“There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher animals in their mental faculties.… The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.”
- Charles Darwin
“Eating Other Animals? I Just Can’t Stomach It”
- Unknown
“Nobody can possibly be so hungry that they need to take a life in order to feel satisfied-they don’t after all, take a human life, so why take the life of an animal? Both are conscious beings with the same determination to survive. It is habit, and laziness and nothing else.”
- Morrissey
“I can’t think if anything that makes me happier than seeing an animal’s contentment, witnessing a creature allowed to be who he wants to be in the world – and at peace. It’s a thing of beauty.”
- Jenny Brown
“The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom.”
- Uri Geller
“Being vegan just gives you such great karma.”
- Alicia Silverstone
“All we are saying, is give peas a chance…”
- Unknown
“If you don’t like seeing pictures of violence towards animals being posted, you need to help stop the violence, not the pictures.”
- Johnny Depp
“Needless to say, jamming deformed, drugged, overstressed birds together in a filthy, waste-coated room is not very healthy.
“Beyond deformities, eye damage, blindness, bacterial infections of bones, slipped vertebrae, paralysis, internal bleeding, anemia, slipped tendons, twisted lower legs and necks, respiratory diseases, and weakened immune systems are frequent and long-standing problems on factory farms.”
- Jonathan Safran Foer
“Animals on factory farms all face pain and fear, just like the animals we share our homes with, yet are repeatedly abused in shocking ways.”
- Peter Dinklage
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.”
- Mark Twain
“People may hate you for being different and not living by society’s standards but deep down, they wish they had the courage to do the same.”
- Unknown
“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.”
- Henry David Thoreau
“An area of land used for crops will feed about ten times as many people as the same area of land used for grass-fed beef.”
- Peter Singer
“Things that seem morally obvious and intuitive now weren’t necessarily so in the past; many started with nonconforming reasoning.”
- Robert M. Sapolsky
“Don’t wait for a better world. Start now to create a world of harmony and peace. It is up to you, and it always has been. You may even find the solution at the end of your fork.”
- Sharon Gannon
“A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.”
- George Bernard Shaw
“Taking B12 is the price of getting to be vegan, the way wearing a helmet is the price of getting to ride a motorcycle and giving up alcohol for nine months is the price of getting to have a baby.”
- Victoria Moran
“The Gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies; they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.”
- Plato
“If we each had to butcher our own meat, there would be a great increase in the number of vegetarians.”
- Ernest Howard Crosby
“Being vegan is not always easy and accessible. But it’s a way of life and makes me as a person feel really good and physically look better.”
- Olivia Wilde
“If you visit the killing floor of a slaughterhouse, it will brand your soul for life.”
- Howard Lyman
“Animals love me, plants fear me”
- Unknown
“Man’s mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Why are vegans made fun of while the inhumane factory farming process regards animals and the natural world merely as commodities to be exploited for profit?”
- Ellen Page
“Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.”
- Samuel Butler
“Any serious social, political, and economic change must include veganism.”
- Gary L. Francione
“I’ve been vegan for about 10 and a half years. It’s been all good. I’m obviously much healthier.”
- Woody Harrelson
“If you can’t stand watching it being produced, you shouldn’t be eating it.”
- Unknown
“It’s upsetting to me that so many people think of themselves as environmentalists and still eat meat and dairy products.
“I think it’s something people should be considering given the emergency situation we’re in regarding water supplies, global warming, and the destruction of ecosystems.
“There’s a lot of overlap between animal rights and the environment.”
- Emily Deschanel
“Vegan food is soul food in its truest form. Soul food means to feed the soul. And to me, your soul is your intent. If your intent is pure, you are pure.”
- Erykah Badu
“Beets not meats!”
- Unknown
“You can’t do anything violent humanely.”
- James Wildman
“Could you look an animal in the eyes and say to it, ‘My appetite is more important than your suffering’?”
- Moby
“Being vegan is easy.
“Are there social pressures that encourage you to continue to eat, wear, and use animal products? Of course there are. But in a patriarchal, racist, homophobic, and ableist society, there are social pressures to participate and engage in sexism, racism, homophobia, and ableism.
“At some point, you have to decide who you are and what matters morally to you. And once you decide that you regard victimizing vulnerable non-humans is not morally acceptable, it is easy to go and stay vegan”
- Gary L. Francione
“I’m a proud vegan, whistleblower, and animal rights activist.”
- Steve-O
“Personal purity isn’t really the issue. Not supporting animal abuse – and persuading others not to support it – is.”
- Peter Singer
“How pitiful, and what poverty of mind, to have said that the animals are machines deprived of understanding and feeling.
“Judge (in the same way as you would judge your own) the behaviour of a dog who has lost his master, who has searched for him in the road barking miserably, who has come back to the house restless and anxious, who has run upstairs and down, from room to room, and who has found the beloved master at last in his study, and then shown his joy by barks, bounds and caresses.
“There are some barbarians who will take this dog, that so greatly excels man in capacity for friendship, who will nail him to a table, and dissect him alive, in order to show you his veins and nerves. And what you then discover in him are all the same organs of sensation that you have in yourself.
“Answer me, mechanist, has Nature arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel? Has he nerves that he may be incapable of suffering?”
- Voltaire
“I decided to pick the diet that I thought would maximize my chances of long-term survival.”
- Al Gore
“Give up animal foods for two months, or even for a week, and I promise you will look and feel better, and you’ll want to do it forever.”
- Alicia Silverstone
“I don’t hold animals superior or even equal to humans. The whole case for behaving decently to animals rests on the fact that we are the superior species. We are the species uniquely capable of imagination, rationality, and moral choice – and that is precisely why we are under an obligation to recognize and respect the rights of animals.”
- Brigid Brophy
“After all the information I gathered about the mistreatment of animals, I couldn’t continue to eat meat. The more I was aware of, the harder and harder it was to do.”
- Liam Hemsworth
“One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our souls and become worthier of sharing this planet with them”
- Martin Luther King Jr
“Vegan is just pure love. Love for animals, love for the planet, and love for yourself.”
- Mischa Temaul
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
- Mahātmā Mohandas Gandhi
“Vegetarianism is a way of living consciously on the planet.”
- Amy Smart
“Eating meat is the most disgusting thing I can think of. It’s like biting into your grandmother.”
- Morrissey
“Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.”
- Bradley Miller
“I love being vegan; it’s the best thing that ever happened to me. I finally understand, we all have but one life, human, cow, ant, everyone, it is not our right to take it away on a whim, simply because we can, it’s their right to live their lives, just like us, just like me.”
- Jaco van Drongelen
“Even as a junkie I stayed true to vegetarianism – ‘I shall have heroin, but I shan’t have a hamburger.’ What a sexy little paradox.”
- Russell Brand
“If you can be anything, be kind.”
- Unknown
“My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.”
- Leonardo da Vinci
“I personally chose to go vegan because I educated myself on factory farming and cruelty to animals, and I suddenly realized that what was on my plate were living things, with feelings. And I just couldn’t disconnect myself from it any longer.”
- Ellen DeGeneres
“Cheap meat is the problem. The answer is to replace meat recipes with vegan meals.”
- Ingrid Newkirk
“Only when we have become non-violent towards all life will we have learned to live well ourselves,”
- Cesar Chavez
“We choose to eat meat and have therefore built slaughterhouses for the animals and hospitals for us.”
- Akbarali Jetha
“To get mud off your hands, use soap and water. To get blood off your hands, go vegan.”
- John Sakars
“How can you eat anything with eyes?”
- Will Kellogg
“The mass of the population before the modern era rarely ate meat as the mass of the peasantry rarely do in underdeveloped countries today.
“In Europe, in the Middle Ages, meat, especially red meat, was associated with aristocracy, landed gentry and their militaristic and hunting culture.
“It was this, also, that tended to strengthen the association of meat with power and aggression.”
- Malcolm Hamilton
“You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It’s because they know what it’s like to be treated like an animal.”
- Chuck Palahniuk
“This is a message to all those out there who think that you need animal products to be fit and strong. Almost two years after becoming vegan I am stronger than ever before and I am still improving day by day.”
- Patrik Baboumian
“I wouldn’t touch a hot dog unless you put a condom on it. You realize that the job of a hot dog is to use parts of the animal that the Chinese can’t figure out how to make into a belt!”
- Bill Maher
“Violence begins with the fork.”
- Mahātmā Mohandas Gandhi
“There is something about veganism that is not easy, but the difficulty is not inherent in veganism, but in our culture.”
- Will Tuttle
“If it has a heartbeat, don’t eat, retreat!”
- Unknown
“Don’t do nothing because you can’t do everything. Do something. Anything.”
- Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
“The food we eat masks so much cruelty.
“The fact that we can sit down and eat a piece of chicken without thinking about the horrendous conditions under which chickens are industrially bred in this country is a sign of the dangers of capitalism, how capitalism has colonized our minds.
“The fact that we look no further than the commodity itself, the fact that we refuse to understand the relationships that underlie the commodities that we use on a daily basis.
“And so food is like that.”
- Angela Y. Davis
“Earth was created for all of us, not some of us.”
- Anthony Douglas Williams
“Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life.”
- Brenda Davis RD
“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.”
- Victoria Moran
“The most powerful bond we know of is the bond between mother and child, and we break it in order to make ‘comfort foods’ for ourselves”
- Michael Schwarz
“Baby rats need rat milk, baby cats need cat milk, baby dogs need dog milk, baby humans need human milk, baby cows need cow milk, baby chimps need chimp milk..
“Would anyone believe it if someone claimed adult giraffes need elephant milk? Or adult horses need squirrel milk? Or adult possums need goat milk? Or adult humans need cow milk?
“Oh, wait, no, that last one makes total sense…NOT!”
- Mango Wodzak
“A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk’s bill, no sharp talon, no roughness of teeth, no such strength of stomach or heat of digestion, as can be sufficient to convert or alter such heavy and fleshy fare.”
- Plutarch
“In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be, but now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses. And it is impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig.
“I can still remember as a boy the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughterhouse.”
- H.G. Wells
“I don’t go around lecturing people and telling them they shouldn’t eat meat. I just don’t think that’s terribly effective. I just try to tell people how I have personally benefited from the vegan lifestyle.”
- Steve-O
“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.”
- Peter Singer
“Humane slaughter is an oxymoron”
- Unknown
“Of all the creatures, man is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he’s the one that possesses malice.
“He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain.
“The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.”
- Mark Twain
“When people ask me why I don’t eat meat or any other animal products, I say, because they are unhealthy and they are the product of a violent and inhumane industry.”
- Casey Affleck
“As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.”
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
“People don’t think about how each of these animals that we call dinner have the same kinds of personalities as our dogs and cats.”
- Emily Deschanel
“To shut your mind, heart, imagination to the sufferings of others is to begin slowly but inexorably to die. It is to cease by inches from being human, to become in the end capable of nothing, generous or unselfish; or sometimes capable of anything, however terrible.”
- John Austin Baker
“You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan.”
- Gary L. Francione
“I became a vegetarian out of compassion for animals and to live as healthy as possible. I realized soon after that I was truly concerned with nonviolent consumption and my own health, a vegan diet was the best decision.”
- Davey Havok
“Being vegan is not the key to immortality. We’re all going to get sick and die. But to know you’re living without harming? That’s the loveliest feeling.”
- Victoria Moran
“When you truly understand that your food choices are powerful and life affirming, you can exercise control and restraint without deprivation.”
- Marlene Adelmann
“I decided to become a vegan because it was the right thing to do. I don’t believe God put these precious creatures here for us to exploit and murder.
“As a cancer survivor, I appreciate that a plant based diet is proven to be the best way to prevent cancer cells from growing. And the fact that I’m lean, strong and healthier than ever, well those are just very exciting perks!”
- Amanda Riester
“If you knew how meat was raised…you wouldn’t eat it.”
- Justin Timberlake
“Cows scream louder than carrots.”
- Alan Watts
“Life is too short to make others shorter.”
- Unknown
“Everyone has to find what is right for them, and it is different for everyone. Eating for me is how you proclaim your beliefs three times a day. That is why all religions have rules about eating.
“Three times a day, I remind myself that I value life and do not want to cause pain to or kill other living beings. That is why I eat the way I do.”
- Natalie Portman
“We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.”
- Rachel Carson
“We strive for a world where every earthling has the right to live and grow. That’s why we don’t eat animals.”
- Ruby Roth
“We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet – for the sake of hamburgers.”
- Peter Singer
“Be Human AND Humane”
- Unknown
“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.”
- Leonardo da Vinci
“The human body has no more need for cows’ milk than it does for dogs’ milk, horses’ milk, or giraffes’ milk.”
- Dr. Michael Klaper
“It was all so very businesslike that one watched it fascinated.
“It was pork-making by machinery, pork-making by applied mathematics. And yet somehow the most matter-of-fact person could not help thinking of the hogs; they were so innocent, they came so very trustingly; and they were so very human in their protests – and so perfectly within their rights!
“They had done nothing to deserve it; and it was adding insult to injury, as the thing was done here, swinging them up in this cold-blooded, impersonal way, without pretence at apology, without the homage of a tear.”
- Upton Sinclair
“I am very proud of the fact that 20 years’ on people tell me they became a vegetarian as a result of ‘Meat is Murder’. I think that is quite literally rock music changing someone’s life – it’s certainly changing the life of animals. It is one of the things I am most proud of.”
- Johnny Marr
“Look into their eyes and tell them ‘I’m sorry, you have to die, but I need to eat.’
Look into their eyes, and tell them ‘I know there is an abundance of plant based foods I could eat, but I would still rather eat you.’
Look into their eyes and tell them ‘I know I don’t NEED to eat you, but I am going to pay someone else to murder you anyway.’
Look into their eyes and tell them ‘I’m sorry you lived a short enslaved, abused and tortured life, but I don’t care because I am selfish.’
Look into their eyes and tell them ‘I love my cat/dog, but your life doesn’t matter as much.’
Go ahead, take a look into their eyes and tell them that!”
- Jenn V Keller-Lowe
“I remember looking at the fear in her eyes. How could someone be so cruel? I thought as the hens cried. When will people realize that other animals have just as much the right as we do.”
- Zoe Rosenberg
“In the 1980’s, vegetarianism was considered to be “radical” by most people; just a handful of restaurants, stores, and food companies catered to the community.
PETA was promoting GO VEGETARIAN, Vegetarian Times was the go-to magazine for recipes and lifestyle information, and veggie burgers contained eggs and cheese.
I don’t know why it took so long for Veganism to catch on, or why I didn’t make the connection, myself, and change sooner, but I guess in some weird way I was part of a wave of consciousness.”
- Anji Bee
“Honestly, I would eat cardboard rather than go back to eating animals.”
- Ellen DeGeneres
“As custodians of the planet it is our responsibility to deal with all species with kindness, love and compassion. That these animals suffer through human cruelty is beyond understanding. Please help to stop this madness.”
- Richard Gere
“Eat beans, not beings!”
- Unknown
“Veganism is about nonviolence. It is about not engaging in harm to other sentient beings; to oneself; and to the environment upon which all beings depend for life.
“In my view, the animal rights movement is, at its core, a movement about ending violence to all sentient beings. It is a movement that seeks fundamental justice for all. It is an emerging peace movement that does not stop at the arbitrary line that separates humans from nonhumans.”
- Gary L. Francione
“For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I’m doing the right thing by the animals.”
- Alexandra Paul
“Being vegan for me is a cleaner way of not participating in practices that don’t align with my values.”
- Cory Booker
“I got into being vegan because I was simply looking to benefit from being more compassionate. I have since come to learn that it is an animal-based diet that is responsible for the overwhelming majority of cases of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, multiple sclerosis, and all kinds of other problems.”
- Steve-O
“The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. If beef is your idea of “real food for real people,” you’d better live real close to a real good hospital.”
- Dr. Neal D. Barnard
“To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.”
- Buddha
“Being vegan doesn’t make you a stronger, better athlete. But it allows you to make yourself a stronger, better athlete.”
- Brendan Brazier
“What I like best about traveling is exploring new places, cultures, and cuisines, and learning to look at the world through a different lens.
“Travel really is the world’s best teacher. And actually, veganism offers the same thing. Becoming vegan completely changed my worldview and enabled me to connect with nature and with my fellow earthlings in a way I never had before.
“By combining travel with veganism, I’m able to view the world through a whole new window and experience places in a way that most other tourists don’t.”
- Wendy Werneth
“Vegetarianism preserves life, health, peace, the ecology, creates a more equitable distribution of resources, helps to feed the hungry, encourages nonviolence for the animal and human members of the planet, and is a powerful aid for the spiritual transformation of the body, emotions, mind, and spirit.”
- Gabriel Cousens
“The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind.”
- Charles Darwin
“I abhor vivisection. It should at least be curbed.
“Better, it should be abolished. I know of no achievement through vivisection, no scientific discovery, that could not have been obtained without such barbarism and cruelty.
“The whole thing is evil.”
- Charles Mayo
“If you don’t want to be beaten, imprisoned, mutilated, killed or tortured, then you shouldn’t condone such behavior towards anyone, be they human or not.”
- Moby
“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.”
- Thomas A Edison
“We don’t need to eat anyone who would run, swim, or fly away if he could.”
- James Cromwell
“Going vegetarian – and then vegan – has calmed me down, and it has also made me physically and emotionally strong.”
- Kangana Ranaut
“The vegan diet is healthy and leads to a compassionate lifestyle. I’ve gotten so many benefits. My weight is easily maintained, my skin glows, I sleep better and I feel more energized.”
- Meagan Duhamel
“You may choose to look the other way, but you can never say again that you didn’t know.”
- William Wilberforce
“Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.”
- Rue McClanahan
“We know we cannot be kind to animals until we stop exploiting them – exploiting animals in the name of science, exploiting animals in the name of sport, exploiting animals in the name of fashion, and yes, exploiting animals in the name of food.”
- Cesar Chavez
“If you truly care about animal rights and have a passion for it, take some action. Whether it’s hands-on or political, just go for it. No matter what path you choose in life or what you decide to do, you can use your voice to educate other people and help the cause.”
- Mac Danzig
“The reason that I started this was because I had a fish that was highly intelligent. He really knew who I was, he really got excited when I was home.
“One day I went to a sushi restaurant with a few of my friends and they were serving blowfish. And I thought, this is an intelligent animal.”
- Miley Cyrus
“Live life simply so that others may simply live.”
- Mahātmā Mohandas Gandhi
“Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you anymore.”
- Franz Kafka (whilst watching a fish in an aquarium)
“He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”
- Immanuel Kant
“If you could see or feel the suffering you wouldn’t think twice. Give back life. Don’t eat meat.”
- Kim Basinger
“Love animals, eat plants”
- Unknown
“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.”
- Paul McCartney
“I refuse to eat animals because I cannot nourish myself by the sufferings and by the death of other creatures.”
- Edgar Kupfer-Koberwitz
“I was not raised vegan.
“I did not become vegan because I did not like the taste of meat, dairy, or eggs. I became vegan because one day, I had the courage to take responsibility for my choices.
“I no longer believe animals are here for us for food, clothing, entertainment, testing, or any other purpose.
“I am Vegan.”
- Unknown
“I’ve found that a person does not need protein from meat to be a successful athlete. In fact, my best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet.”
- Carl Lewis
“The most ethical diet just so happens to be the most environmentally sound diet and just so happens to be the healthiest.”
- Dr. Michael Greger
“By eating meat we share the responsibility of climate change, the destruction of our forests, and the poisoning of our air and water. The simple act of becoming a vegetarian will make a difference in the health of our planet.”
- Thích Nhất Hạnh
“Being a vegan just helps me build up my self-esteem. I feel good about it every time I eat a meal.”
- Steve-O
“The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.”
- Charles Darwin
"Humans-who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain.
“A sharp distinction between humans and ‘animals’ is essential if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them, eat them without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret.
“It is unseemly of us, who often behave so unfeelingly toward other animals, to contend that only humans can suffer. The behavior of other animals renders such pretensions specious.
“They are just too much like us.”
- Carl Sagan
“If the whole world went vegan, there would be less war. How you eat determines your mood and your outlook on life.”
- Alexandra Paul
“We don’t ‘crave’ animal-based meat, dairy, and eggs, but we do crave fat, salt, flavor, texture, and familiarity.”
- Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
“Choose a compassionate frame of mind. Always choose love. Always be kind.”
- Beth Arnold
“Our deeply-rooted beliefs about the wholesomeness of milk and dairy products should be re-considered under careful, scientific evaluation.”
- Bodo Melnik
“We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as a resource, as a thing that we an use and kill for our purposes.”
- Gary L. Francione
“I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.”
- George Bernard Shaw
“If we observe nature, we will find that all creatures are born with or develop everything they need to secure their natural food. No human has yet been born with a stove on his back or the keys to a tractor in her hand.”
- Douglas N. Graham
“Fish aren’t vegetables!’
- Unknown
“The sixteen hundred dairies in California’s Central Valley alone produce more waste than a city of twenty-one million people-that’s more than the populations of London, New York, and Chicago combined.”
- Gene Baur
“Becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species.”
- Chris Hedges
“Dairy farmers routinely remove calves from their mothers at an early age so that the milk will be available for humans; anyone who has lived on a dairy farm will know that, for days after the calves have gone, their mothers keep calling for them.”
- Peter Singer
“Violence takes on many forms, sadly violence is such an everyday part of our lives that we have mostly become oblivious to it.
“It goes on behind closed doors, far away from our vision. Screams that go unheard by the masses.
“Yet the butchered remains of miserable lives land with a sizzle on our dinner plates, and are rarely fully recognised for what they really are.”
- Mango Wodzak
“I mostly eat healthy. I just do. I’m not a vegan for health reasons – although obviously I’m 20 pounds lighter than when I started. I stayed 20 pounds lighter. I feel better. My friends say I look better. All that’s true. But I’m a vegan for compassionate reasons.”
- Russell Simmons
“I suppose I am one: an activist – for animals and a vegan lifestyle. I hear that word, however, and look around to see if someone is indeed referring to me.”
- Victoria Moran
“Every person I have met who has gone vegan says it is the best decision they have ever made.”
- Lewis Hamilton
“Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don’t harass them, don’t deprive them of their happiness, don’t work against God’s intent.
“Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to animals; they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it, and leave the traces of your foulness after you – alas, it is true of almost every one of us!”
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do.”
- Cesar Chavez
“Whenever people say ‘We mustn’t be sentimental,’ you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add ‘We must be realistic,’ they mean they are going to make money out of it.”
- Brigid Brophy
“I’ve always just loved animals and you just start making the connection between what you’re eating and what happens to these poor animals and once you start making those connections and realizing the truth behind what you’re eating, it just, there wasn’t any other option for me.”
- Tony Kanal
“The word “veganism” denotes a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude – as far as is possible and practical – all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose; and by extension, promotes the development and use of animal-free alternatives for the benefit of humans, animals and the environment.
“In dietary terms it denotes the practice of dispensing with all products derived wholly or partly from animals.”
- Donald Watson
“We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.”
- Gary L. Francione
“Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.”
- Mahātmā Mohandas Gandhi
“What man with a human heart, who has ever cared for domestic animals, could look into their eyes, so full of confidence and affection, and willingly give them over to the butcher’s knife? How could he devour their flesh as a sweet morsel?”
- Ellen G White
“Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.”
- Albert Einstein
“One should not kill a living being, nor cause it to be killed, nor should one incite another to kill. Do not injure any being, either strong or weak, in the world.”
- Buddha
“Nothing has benefited me more physically, mentally and most important spiritually, than adopting a vegan diet. The best decision I have made as a human for me and the planet.”
- Timothy Shieff
“Some people think the ‘plant-based whole foods diet’ is extreme.
“Half a million people a year will have their chests opened up and a vein taken from their leg and sewn on their coronary artery.
“Some would call that extreme.”
- Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn
“Veganism extends compassionate, gentle benevolence to all sentient beings.”
- Stanley Sapon
“Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.”
- James A. Froude
“Animals are not ingredients.”
- Barbara Thompson
“The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?”
- Jeremy Bentham
“The problem is that humans have victimized animals to such a degree that they are not even considered victims.
“They are not even considered at all. They are nothing; they don’t count; they don’t matter.
“They are commodities like TV sets and cell phones. We have actually turned animals into inanimate objects – sandwiches and shoes.”
- Gary Yourofsky
“It’s not hard to make decisions once you know what your values are.”
- Roy E. Disney
“Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics.”
- Peter Singer
“If you think that being vegan is difficult, imagine being a factory farmed animal.”
- Davegan Raza
“Meat is murder”
- The Smiths
“I am grateful to realize that my desires do not entitle me to add to another’s suffering.”
- Zoe Weil
“With lentils, tomatoes and rice, olives and nuts and bread, Why does a man care to gnaw a slice of something bleeding and dead?”
- Henry Bailey Stevens
“If a kid ever realized what was involved in factory farming, they would never touch meat again.”
- James Cromwell
“This may surprise you, because it surprised me when I found out, but the single biggest thing that an individual can do to combat climate change is to stop eating animals because of the huge, huge carbon footprint of animal agriculture.
“I was shocked to find out that animal agriculture directly or indirectly accounts for 14.5% of all greenhouse gas emissions, compared to all transportation – every ship, car, truck, plane on the planet only accounts for 13%. Less than animal agriculture.
“So most people think that buying a Prius is the answer, and it’s certainly not wrong, but it’s not the biggest agent of climate change.”
- James Cameron
“I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.”
- Abraham Lincoln
“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
“Raw food is the best way to have the cleanest energy.
“We take so much care about what kind of fuel we put in our car, what kind of oil. We care about that sometimes more than the fuel that we’re looking at putting in our bodies.
“It’s cleaner burning fuel.”
- Woody Harrelson
“All children should be encouraged to love and respect animals, not turn a blind eye to their suffering and stab forks into their dead bodies.”
- Mango Wodzak
“Our economic order is tightly woven around the exploitation of animals, and while it may seem easy to dismiss concern about animals as the soft-headed mental masturbation of people who really don’t understand oppression and the depths of actual human misery, I hope to get you to think differently about suffering and pain, to convince you that animals matter, and to argue that anyone serious about ending domination and hierarchy needs to think critically about bringing animals into consideration.”
- Bob Torres
“You humans drink our milk and eat the eggs of the chickens and the ducks. Isn’t that enough for you?
“Isn’t it enough that we give you our children and what’s meant for our children? And if not, when is it enough? All you humans do is take, take, take from the earth and its beautiful creatures, and what do you give back? Nothing.
“I know humans consider it a grave insult to be called an animal. Well, I would never give a human the fine distinction of being called an animal, because an animal may kill to live but an animal never lives to kill.
“Humans have to earn the right to be called animals again.”
- David Duchovny (from his book, Holy Cow)
“An animal’s eyes have the power to speak a great language.”
- Martin Buber
“Not your mom, not your milk”
- Unknown
“Every time sitting at a dining table, we make a choice. Please choose vegetarianism. Do it for the animals. Do it for the environment and for the sake of your own health.”
- Alec Baldwin
“Elsewhere the paper notes that vegetarians and vegans (including athletes) ‘meet and exceed requirements’ for protein. And, to render the whole we-should-worry-about-getting-enough-protein-and-therefore-eat-meat idea even more useless, other data suggests that excess animal protein intake is linked with osteoporosis, kidney disease, calcium stones in the urinary tract, and some cancers.
“Despite some persistent confusion, it is clear that vegetarians and vegans tend to have more optimal protein consumption than omnivores.”
- Jonathan Safran Foer
“I never cooked before I became vegan. Preparing a meal as opposed to ordering in all the time, you start thinking about where your food comes from and how it gets to your table. You notice that chain.”
- Robin Quivers
“So it is always preferable to discuss the matter of veganism in a non-judgemental way. Remember that to most people, eating flesh or dairy and using animal products such as leather, wool, and silk, is as normal as breathing air or drinking water.
“A person who consumes dairy or uses animal products is not necessarily or usually what a recent and unpopular American president labelled an “evil doer.”
- Gary L. Francione
“Basically, the reason I’m vegan is because when I was about 16 or 17 years old, I began to understand that we don’t need to contribute to the killing and exploitation of animals to feed our bodies correctly.”
- Daniel Johns
“I wasn’t a vegan when I came to Congress. It was a decision I made soon after I got here, and it’s had such a positive impact on my life that I decided to try to help others as well.”
- Ted Deutch
“I’m vegan, though not completely religious about it. While writing ‘Sapiens,’ I became familiar with how we treat animals in the meat and dairy industries. I was so horrified that I didn’t want to be a part of it anymore.”
- Yuval Noah Harari
“I made the choice to be vegan because I will not eat (or wear, or use) anything that could have an emotional response to its death or captivity. I can well imagine what that must feel like for our non-human friends – the fear, the terror, the pain – and I will not cause such suffering to a fellow living being.”
- Rai Aren
“The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.”
- Axel Munthe
“To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal.
“But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime.”
- Romain Rolland
“Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.”
- George Bernard Shaw
“I thought I was healthy and strong before, but after adopting a plant-based diet, I started to feel energetic and I was having quicker recovery after training”
- Frank Medrano
“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.”
- Leonardo Da Vinci
“My diet is a whole food, plant based or vegan diet. So, basically I want you to eat whole grains, legumes, tonnes of vegetables and fruits, nuts and seeds. No meat whatsoever, and no processed foods.
“It’s amazing what it can do for your body, and it reduces your risk for chronic disease.”
- Julieanna Hever
“At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans. To perceive this and to do something to change it in personal and public ways is to undergo a change of perception akin to a religious conversion.
“Nothing can ever be seen in quite the same way again because once you have admitted the terror and pain of other species you will, unless you resist conversion, be always aware of the endless permutations of suffering that support our society.”
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“My perspective of veganism was most affected by learning that the veal calf is a by-product of dairying, and that in essence there is a slice of veal in every glass of what I had thought was an innocuous white liquid – milk.”
- Rynn Berry
“We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs as our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.”
- Robert Louis Stevenson
“In fact, if one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be cruelty, but where a lot of people are unkind to animals, especially in the name of commerce, the cruelty is condoned and, once large sums of money are at stake, will be defended to the last by otherwise intelligent people.”
- Ruth Harrison
“I look forward to the day when animals will have the right to run if they have legs, swim if they have fins, and fly if they have wings.”
- Gretchen Wyler
“Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act, which is contrary to moral feeling: killing.
“By killing, man suppresses in himself, unnecessarily, the highest spiritual capacity, that of sympathy and pity towards living creatures like himself and by violating his own feelings becomes cruel.”
- Leo Tolstoy
“Without pushing an agenda (okay, maybe I’ve pushed a bit), I’ve spread a little veganism wherever I’ve gone.
“I’ve become friends with chefs at the meatiest restaurants you can imagine, and shown them a few things that opened their minds (and their menus) to vegan options.
“It’s easy to be convincing when the food is delicious. It doesn’t feel like a sacrifice–it feels like a step up.”
- Tal Ronnen
“You don’t have to choose between being scientific and being compassionate.”
- Robert M. Sapolsky
“Animal liberation is also human liberation. Animal liberationists care about the quality of life for all.
“We recognize our kinship with all feeling beings. We identify with the powerless and the vulnerable the victims, all those dominated, oppressed and exploited.
“And it is the non-human animals whose suffering is the most intense, widespread, expanding, systematic and socially sanctioned of all.”
- Henry Spira
“Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.”
- Arthur Schopenhauer
“The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.”
- Hippocrates
“Humanity’s true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect humankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.”
- Milan Kundera
“To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.”
- Samuel Johnson
“I don’t normally get into this, but I’m a vegan. And I try not to, well, I don’t want to torture anything. I guess it’s about trying to live a life where I’m not contributing to the cruelty in the world.
“While I am on this planet, I want everyone I meet to know that I am grateful they are here.”
- Jessica Chastain
“The concept that you are not ingesting rotting flesh sort of sums it up for me.”
- Bryan Adams
“I love 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.”
- Peter Dinklage
“Behind every beautiful fur coat, there is a story.
“It is a bloody, barbaric story.”
- Mary Tyler Moore
“Plants are not cognizant. When we cut a leaf, we assume that the plant is suffering. But that’s our own anthropomorphism about what’s going on.”
- Daniel Chamovitz
“Part of my becoming a vegetarian was that I would look at my burger, then look at my dogs, and I wasn’t able to see a difference.”
- Kristen Bell
“When interacting with people, I’m always aware that I might be the first vegan this person has ever met. So I try to be a good ambassador for the movement and show that I am grateful for whatever they are able to serve me, even if it’s just some boiled vegetables.”
- Wendy Werneth
“All vegans and vegetarians have heard it: ‘But what about the plants? What about their feelings? They feel pain, too. Don’t you feel bad for the carrots? You are killing them, you know.’
“Sorry, but the above represent the dumbest set of excuses I’ve ever heard as to why some people claim eating animals is morally equivalent to eating plants. Tellingly, these people’s concern for plant feelings has not reared its head over eating a baked potato with steak, or seeing capers in chicken piccata.
“No, it’s arisen because the conversation has turned to cruelty toward the animals we eat, something that’s difficult to swallow.”
- Mikko Alanne
“Embrace compassion without exception.”
- Janice Anderson
“Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.”
- Robert Louis Stevenson
“Speciesism is morally objectionable because, like racism, sexism, and heterosexism, it links personhood with an irrelevant criterion. Those who reject speciesism are committed to rejecting racism, sexism, heterosexism, and other forms of discrimination as well.”
- Gary L. Francione
“Remember at all time that just as your life is precious to you, so too is all life precious to those living one.”
- Mango Wodzak
“The path of the norm is the path of least resistance; it is the route we take when we’re on auto-pilot and don’t even realize we’re following a course of action that we haven’t consciously chosen.
“Most people who eat meat have no idea that they’re behaving in accordance with the tenets of a system that has defined many of their values, preferences, and behaviors. What they call ‘free choice’ is, in fact, the result of a narrowly obstructed set of options that have been chosen for them.
“They don’t realize, for instance, that they have been taught to value human life so far above certain forms of nonhuman life that it seems appropriate for their taste preferences to supersede other species’ preference for survival.”
- Melanie Joy
“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.”
- Anatole France
“I won’t eat anything that has intelligent life, but I’d gladly eat a network executive or a politician.”
- Marty Feldman
“The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.”
- John Kenneth Galbraith
“Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty.”
- William Ralph Inge
“It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.”
- Haile Selassie
“Life is life – whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.”
- Sri Aurobindo
“It’s hard to imagine calling the dairy industry anything but “inhumane” when you consider that on dairy farms, cows are artificially inseminated and forced to give birth, only to have their beloved babies torn away from them so the milk that nature intended for them can instead be consumed by humans.
“Both mother cows and their calves are emotionally traumatised when forcibly separated from one another. The mother cows bellow in desperation, and their calves bawl in distress. They cry out for each other for days – in vain.
“The male calves – often referred to as ‘by-products’ – are either shot at birth or destined to become veal. The female calves, like their mothers, face a lifetime of repeated forcible impregnation and anguish over their stolen babies. Their bodies are strained to the limit in order to squeeze out every last drop of milk.
“Today, British cows typically produce 10 times more milk than they would naturally in order to feed their calves.”
- Mimi Bekhechi
“I don’t see why someone should lose their life just so you can have a snack.”
- Russell Brand
“Refrain at all times from such foods as cannot be procured without violence and oppression.”
- Thomas Tryon
“No other animal on Earth has portrayed such a disregard for life than mankind.”
- Anthony Douglas Williams
“The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong in the world.”
- Dr. Paul Farmer
“The future depends on what we do in the present.”
- Mahātmā Mohandas Gandhi
“If intelligence and capability are not criteria for the possession of rights, why would animals – who have the capacity to feel fear and pain – be excluded from our moral consideration?”
- Jack Norris
“You either approve of violence or you don’t, and nothing on earth is more violent or extreme than the meat industry.”
- Morrissey
“If you think eating meat is just a personal choice, you are forgetting someone.”
- Unknown
“As I improved my diet, I started to learn to love myself, probably for the first time ever.”
- Frank Ferrante
“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.”
- Albert Einstein
“Nobody really needs a mink coat…Except the mink.”
- Glenda Jackson
“Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society’s punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.”
- Martin Luther King Jr
“But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.”
- Plutarch
“Animals don’t have a voice, but I do. A loud one. A big f***ing mouth. My voice is for them. And I’ll never shut up while they suffer.”
- Ricky Gervais
“Nothing hurts a good soul and a kind heart more than to live amongst people who can’t understand it.”
- Ali Ibn Abi Talib
“Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal.”
- Ingrid Newkirk
“The intrinsic meaning of animal rights is that no animal should be used or killed for human purposes. Their rights as individuals are sacred, and no benefit to myself or my taste buds can trump their right to be.”
- Eddie Lama
“Be kind to every kind”
- Unknown
“Our thinking about non-human animals is very confused, and people who have chosen to live a cruelty-free plant-based lifestyle are baffled as to why other people have not made the connection.
“Many of us live with companion animals such as dogs, cats, and rabbits. We share our homes with them, consider them members of the family and we grieve when they die. Yet we kill and eat other animals who, if you really think about it, are no different from the ones we love.”
- Benjamin Zephaniah
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