HEALTHY VEGETARIAN CHOICES FOR LIFE

THE VOICE OF REASON

…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

…A vegetarian is a person who won’t eat anything that can have children.  David Brenner

…Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.  Samuel Butler, Note-Books, 1912

…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

…If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.  Paul McCartney

…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

…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

…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.  Neal Barnard

…Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.  George Bernard Shaw

…If you knew how meat was made, you’d probably lose your lunch.  k.d. lang

…For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores.  We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends.  Robert Brault

…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, quoted in Joanne Stepaniak, The Vegan Sourcebook, 1998

…The human body has no more need for cows’ milk than it does for dogs’ milk, horses’ milk, or giraffes’ milk.  Michael Klaper

…Recognize meat for what it really is:  the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal.   Ingrid Newkirk

…If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat? ? Author 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….  Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

…You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity. Ralph Waldo Emerson

…I just could not stand the idea of eating meat – I really do think that it has made me calmer….  People’s general awareness is getting much better, even down to buying a pint of milk:  the fact that the calves are actually killed so that the milk doesn’t go to them but to us cannot really be right, and if you have seen a cow in a state of extreme distress because it cannot understand why its calf isn’t by, it can make you think a lot.   Kate Bush

…It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.   Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab Notes

…I do not like eating meat because I have seen lambs and pigs killed.  I saw and felt their pain.  They felt the approaching death.  I could not bear it.  I cried like a child.  I ran up a hill and could not breathe.  I felt that I was choking.  I felt the death of the lamb.   Vaslav Nijinsky

…I think if you want to eat more meat you should kill it yourself and eat it raw so that you are not blinded by the hypocrisy of having it processed for you.  Margi Clark

…As soon as I realized that I didn’t need meat to survive or to be in good health, I began to see how forlorn it all is.  If only we had a different mentality about the drama of the cowboy and the range and all the rest of it.  It’s a very romantic notion, an entrenched part of American culture, but I’ve seen, for example, pigs waiting to be slaughtered, and their hysteria and panic was something I shall never forget.  Cloris Leachman

…Would you kill your pet dog or cat to eat it?  How about an animal you’re not emotionally attached to?  Is the thought of slaughtering a cow or chicken or pig with your own hands too much to handle?  Instead, would hiring a hit-man to do the job give you enough distance from the emotional discomfort?  What animal did you put a contract out on for your supper last night?  Did you at least make sure that none went to waste and to take a moment to be grateful for its sacrifice?  Anonymous

If every human being was forced to witness the heinous cruelty of the slaughterhouse, and was compelled to listen to the sounds of terror emanating from these death houses, the only meat eaters left would be those who were too much an animal themselves to even be called human. Mark Brohl

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