As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will also be battlefields.
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), humanist, author (including "War and Peace")
The future is vegan because the Earth deserves it.
Barbarism and Meat
Eating meat is a remnant of the greatest barbarism.
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902-1991)
Writer
Being vegan means seeing the world through different eyes.
Veganism is the answer to many of the problems of our time.
I am convinced that the time will come when no one will want to feed on corpses, when no one will be willing to be a butcher.
Bertha von Suttner (1843-1914),pacifist; Nobel Peace Prize 1905
I ate a super small piece of meat and woke up the next morning totally sick. It was an incredible pain. I was throwing up the whole time. That's when I realized that meat had literally become poison for me.
Mike Gerard Tyson (born 1966),Boxing legend. Vegetarian since the end of 2009.
I think the strongest objection to his intelligence is the fact that he (man) declares himself to be the leading animal in the face of this (historical) register of sins, when in fact he belongs at the very end.
Mark Twain (1835-1910),Author
The rebellion that never comes
It pains me that there will never be an uprising of the animals against us, the patient animals, the cows, the sheep, all the animals that are given into our hands and cannot escape it. I imagine a rebellion breaking out in a slaughterhouse and spreading across an entire city.
Elias Canetti (1905-1994),Nobel Prize Winner in Literature 1981
The Christian conscience cannot be satisfied with the non-application of the 5th commandment to animals for slaughter. Anyone who has ever visited a slaughterhouse will be more or less shocked and disgusted by what they see. Almost everyone comes to the conclusion that the brutal killing of animals that were first raised and fattened in order to finally be eaten is unworthy of today's humanity and especially of Christianity
Günther Weitzel (1915-1984),German biochemist and university professor.
Just as man in his perfection is the noblest of all creatures, so, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.
Aristotle (born 384 v. Chr. - 322 v. Chr.),Greek. Philosopher, student of Plato
Apparently, as culture improves, plant-based food takes the place of meat-based food.
August Bebel (1840-1913), German. social democrat. Politician, co-founder of the Social Democrats in 1869. Workers' Party.
No one makes a greater mistake than someone who does nothing just because there is little he could do.
Mike Gerard Tyson (born 1966),Boxing legend. Vegetarian since the end of 2009.
Ethics is responsibility towards everything that lives, extended to the limitless.
Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965),German-French theologian and missionary doctor; Nobel Peace Prize 1952
Humanity is already deeply indebted to the animal kingdom, whose members it has tortured and destroyed.
Dr. Edward Bach (1886-1936),Developed Bach flower therapy