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Vegetarian is better; vegan is the best - A cow says.
The ultimate tendency of liberalism is vegetarianism.
It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
I would be a vegetarian if the food was better.
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.
A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children.
My reason for becoming a vegetarian was simple: I loved (and love) animals
Don't even get me started. I'm not against all vegetarians. But if you're a vegetarian for ethical reasons, you may be causing more harm.
Eating a vegetarian diet can contribute more to saving ourselves and the planet than any other single effort.
I have no interest in vegetarians whatsoever. Zero. Less than zero.
'Vegetarian' is a slippery word. I don't eat cheese, I don't eat duck - the point is I'm vegan.
I'm a vegetarian, but my family isn't. If I can keep everything in my house healthy, I don't have to worry as much when I eat out.
I am not a vegetarian. I subscribe to my own mantra: eat less, move more, eat plenty of fruits and vegetables, don't eat too much junk food, and enjoy what you eat. Or, to summarise: eat less, eat better, move more, and get political.
We are all vegetarians here, and except for a mountain lion that's been hanging around and killed our dog, we don't have a care in the world.
I think that if a person wants to remain vegetarian, they're just going to have to go hungry.
Veganism is a brilliant approach for elevating human consciousness and avoiding the energy of death and degeneration associated with killing animals for food, which enters us when we eat their flesh and blood.
Vegetarianism is the taproot of humanitarianism.
A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.
In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do..
It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.
I'm not a vegetarian.
For me, it's about optimizing health. It's about lifestyle and longevity. Then you think about what vegetarian diets can do for the mass population, in terms of lower consumption of resources. When you look at the numbers, it's pretty staggering.
Our treatment of animals, in every department, is deeply and systematically immoral. Becoming a vegetarian is only the most minimal ethical response to the magnitude of the evil.
It is all very well for 2% of the population to live in a monastic state of meatlessness while everyone else gorges their way towards environmental meltdown or the nearest heart clinic. Vegetarianism is good for the willing minority, but not much use as a campaign tool.
Vegetarians have been around for a very long time - Pythagoreans forbade eating animals more than 2,500 years ago - but even as the environmental evidence mounted, they didn't appear to be winning the argument.
I'm a vegan. It makes me feel really good and bright.
The closer you can live to being a vegetarian the better.
I always doubted women being vegetarian.
Vegetarians are at best kindly but unrealistic. At worst they are delusional sentimentalists.
In high school I became a vegetarian more times than I can now remember, most often as an effort to claim some identity in a world of people whose identities seemed to come effortlessly.
Being vegan for me is a cleaner way of not participating in practices that don't align with my values.
Ethical veganism represents a commitment to nonviolence.
I can't think of anything better in the world to be but a vegan.
Most people see a documentary about the meat industry and then they become a vegetarian for a week.
A vegetarian? Are you insane? That's worse than bein' a quarter demon!
Therefore, vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of com-passion, which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world.
Because I love the taste of meat I am a reluctant but dedicated vegetarian.
When we eat vegetarian foods, we needn't worry about what kind of disease our food died from; this makes a joyful meal!
I've been a vegetarian for a while now and I try to give my body plenty of what it craves.
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.
I've been a vegetarian since I was 19.
Vegetarians have wicked, shifty eyes, and laugh in a cold calculating manner. They pinch little children, steal stamps, drink water, favor beards.
To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.
I can't be sure, of course, but I'd compare it to living on tofu and soy milk; we call ourselves vegetarians, our little inside joke. - Edward Cullen
Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.
Im a Tibetan monk, not a vegetarian,
I've been variations of vegetarian for over 20 years. I'm Canadian so I always say, be the best you can be.
I've been vegetarian for virtually all of my adult life, and I do adopt a very strict health regime.
The distinction between meat and other animal products is total nonsense. Vegetarianism is a morally incoherent position. If you regard animals as members of the moral community, you really don't have a choice but to go vegan.
I'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy. Take a salt bath. Do things that my parents were never able to do. I'm blessed to do anything I want, so I decide to take the best care of my body and my family in the same way. Holistically. Vitally.
Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind.
Let's call a spade a spade - a lot of times when you are a vegetarian it is a just not very effective eating disorder.
I tried eating vegetarian. I felt like a wimp going into a restaurant. "What do you want to eat sir? Broccoli?" Broccoli's a side dish, folks. Always was, always will be, OK! When they ask me what I want, I say: What do you think I want? This is America. I want a bowl of raw red meat right now.
When I work, I try to eat as much vegetarian as possible. When I do Cupid, I eat vegetarian because I need the energy. I've got those wings on my back.
Vegetarianism is always the product of scarcity, of religion, or of ideology, including nutritional fads and fashions.
I eat vegetarian. I am just drawn to clean eating, and although I do not deprive myself of sweets or French fries once in a while, my body just feels better if I give it good fuel to work with.
My wife and I have chosen to bring up our children as vegetarians. In another time or place, we might have made a different decision. But the realities of our present moment compelled us to make that choice.
I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
I became vegetarian after 'Meat is Murder' in 1985.
I became a vegetarian after I became aware of factory farming and slaughterhouses and the torture and inhumane handling of all these animals.
The vegetarian movement is an ancient movement and is not quite a modern one.
There's no bigger pain anywhere in the world than a vegetarian.
I am a vegetarian because I realized that even little chickens suffer pain and fear, experience a range of feelings and emotions, and are as intelligent as mammals, including dogs, cats, and even some primates.
I sometimes find the vegetarians are more conditioned and more dogmatic than anything else, more than the religion. It's terrible, you must chew the food I don't know how many times, this you mustn't eat and this you must do, goodness me!
I eat mostly vegetarian. I love meat, but I think it should be enjoyed on occasion - like cheesecake or blackouts.
I'm a vegetarian, and I long for people to eat less meat, but the thing to do is not to go, 'Eat! Less! Meat!' It's to say, 'I am fit as a flea and I'm 63, I haven't eaten meat for 40 years, and I never get diseases, I'm never ill, and I'm full of energy. So how's about that?'
I'm not strictly vegetarian, but meat doesn't play a big part in my diet.
In our house, some of our favourite recipes just happen to be vegetarian, but I still enjoy meat and I believe very much in meat.
I am not a complete vegetarian. I eat only animals that have died in their sleep.
My mother taught me a lot about respect for all living things - for plants and animals. I am a vegetarian. I was brought up that way.
I'm a vegetarian, but I don't expect other people not to eat meat.
Many people are turned off at eating vegetarian because of the misconception that all dishes are just an arrangement of bland vegetables.
I took a bite of lobster meat with rice. It was quite tasty. 'Arguing the morality of slaughter will send you into a tailspin of self-loathing every time.' 'Unless you're a vegan.' 'Uh-huh. But then you're a vegan and you don't count.
Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.
I like being vegan, I think it's good for my health.
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.
I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.
Some people are still going to want to eat meat. We do agree though that vegetarianism is a healthier diet.
Vegetarianism is the first turning away from life, because life lives on lives. Vegetarians are just eating something that can't run away.
Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing nonviolence and refusing to participate in the exploitation of the vulnerable
Hitler was a vegetarian.
I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain.
I eat more vegetables than the average vegetarian.
I'm a vegetarian, you see, not because I love animals, but because I hate plants.
Veganism is about nonviolence:
nonviolence to other sentient beings;
nonviolence to yourself;
nonviolence to the earth.
I'm a vegetarian now, but I'm willing to make an exception in the event I'm presented with people. Because I've always been fairly standoffish; I have this tendency not to get to know people very well. And I don't think there is any better way to get to know humanity than to ingest it.
I'm a vegetarian who also eats some environmentally friendly seafood. But most importantly, I eat organic and locally grown foods whenever possible. It is both for health reasons and for preserving the environment.
I've been a vegetarian for years and years. I'm not judgemental about others who aren't, I just feel I cannot eat or wear living creatures.
Economy forced me to become a vegetarian, but I finally starting liking it.
I'm not a vegetarian, but I have cut back sharply on the meat that I eat.
I've been a vegetarian for so long, I forgot how much I missed meat. You know you don't realize how important meat is to you until you don't have it for long time.
I am a vegan out of my love and respect for animals, as well as respect for myself.
Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better.
If modern civilised man had to keep the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.
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If there would come a voice from God saying, 'I'm against vegetarianism!' I would say, 'Well, I am for it!' This is how
strongly I feel in this regard.
Are there any vegetarians among cannibals?
I eat vegetarian a lot. I buy only fresh ingredients and cook from scratch - that way, when I feel like snacking and look in my fridge, it's: 'Oh, baby carrots or chocolate soy pudding. Take your pick.'
I became a vegetarian out of concern for animals, but I wasn't a vegetarian long before I realized there's something to that. I don't think I would have worked for the past five years probably were it not for my vegetarian diet.
Eating together happily can best be crowned by the vegetarian foods.