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If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian. -- Paul McCartney
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man. -- Charles Darwin
Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more. -- Franz Kafka
We all love animals. Why do we call some 'pets' and others 'dinner?' -- K. D. Lang
I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens. -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
People eat meat and think they will become as strong as an ox, forgetting that the ox eats grass. -- Pino Caruso
If you step back and look at the data, the optimum amount of red meat you eat should be zero. -- Walter Willett
Some people are still going to want to eat meat. We do agree though that vegetarianism is a healthier diet. -- Dave Stroud
Being vegan is a glorious adventure. It touches every aspect of my life -- my relationships, how I relate to the world -- Victoria Moran
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. -- George Bernard Shaw
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
People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food. -- Wendell Berry
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. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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. -- Leo Tolstoy
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. -- Pythagoras
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 -- Gary L. Francione
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
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.
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
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. -- William Ralph Inge
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. -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
The meat industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars lying to the public about their product. But no amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat. The facts are absolutely clear: Eating meat is bad for human health, catastrophic for the environment, and a living nightmare for animals -- Chrissie Hynde
Vegan or not, gluten-free or not, Erin McKenna's donuts are the best I've had in 20 years, without exception. -- Mark Bittman
Vegan food is not only good for you, the animals, and the planet, but cooking vegan can be simple, easy, and fun. -- Sharon Gannon
Vegan With A Vengeance is on my kitchen shelf. This fun and creative book is delicious for people like me, who don't eat pets. -- Joan Jett
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
Becoming a vegan is a sure way of completely avoiding participation in the abuse of farmed animals. Vegans are a living demonstration of the fact that we do not need to exploit animals for food. -- Peter Singer
Vegan bodybuilding is about fueling your body with a vast array of natural, healthy foods, combined with resistance weight training and exercise, providing your body with the appropriate tools to build your physique and achieve your fitness goals. -- Robert Cheeke
I call myself a vegetarian with vegan tendencies. -- Leona Lewis
Being a vegan is a first-world phenomenon, completely self-indulgent. -- Anthony Bourdain
Stop being a vegan and start enjoying what you eat. -- Jamie Oliver
I'm a vegan. It makes me feel really good and bright. -- Lea Michele
The vegan diet is obviously lacking whatever essential nutrient it is that makes people likeable. -- Jim Goad
I'm vegan on home base, but when I travel to other countries, I throw it all into the garbage. -- Lake Bell
I became vegan because I saw footage of what really goes on in the slaughterhouses and on the dairy farms. -- Ellen DeGeneres
Being a vegan just helps me build up my self-esteem. I feel good about it every time I eat a meal. -- Steve-O
I could be a vegan in sackcloth and flip-flops, but I find fabulous boots with periwinkle cuffs a far preferable option. -- Victoria Moran
Being vegan is a glorious adventure. It touches every aspect of my life - my relationships, how I relate to the world. -- Victoria Moran
Vitamin D from mushrooms is not only vegan and vegetarian friendly, but you can prepare your own by exposing mushrooms to the summer sun. -- Paul Stamets
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
For me, it always has to be about health. That's why I'm a vegan. Well, I don't even do that for my health entirely, I do it for animals. -- Emily Deschanel
I've been vegan for 15 years, and it turns out it makes a very big impact on the environment to eat fewer animal products, which cause more greenhouse gases than all of transportation combined. -- Emily Deschanel
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
I have been following a vegan diet now since the 1980s, and find it not only healthier, but also much more attractive than the chunks of meat that were on my plate as a child. -- Neal Barnard
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
I'm always thirsty when I wake up, so I guzzle a bottle of Smart water before I scramble tofu with onions, peppers and spinach and top it with salsa. I've been a vegetarian for years, but I recently became vegan. -- Carrie Underwood
Portland is a place where you can find a community as a feminist, a vegan or a fat activist. Artists, musicians, knitters, and filmmakers can all meet like-minded souls. It's proved the perfect place for me and all my punk friends. -- Beth Ditto
I missed a tuna-fish sandwich with mayo on toasted wheat bread more than anything. Six months after I went vegan, I snuck into a deli and took one home. And, of course, it wasn't nearly as good as I fantasized. It tasted, well, fishy. -- Kathy Freston
I'm all in favor of animal rights, but I'd like to see the food movement take a much stronger stand in defense of basic human rights. If you're a vegan or a vegetarian, you should care about the people who are picking your fruits and vegetables by hand. -- Eric Schlosser
When I ask my medical students to describe their image of a woman who elects to birth with a midwife rather than with an obstetrician, they generally describe a woman who wears long cotton skirts, braids her hair, eats only organic vegan food, does yoga, and maybe drives a VW microbus. -- Alice Dreger
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
I have this wonderful personal chef who sources and stocks all my organic produce and I basically live on five smoothies a day. I'm totally vegan. I blend this green concoction with kale, cucumber, broccoli, string beans, avocado. My protein comes from protein powder. There is absolutely no milk, butter, cheese. -- Larry Hagman
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
I don't eat meat. I've been a vegetarian since 1971. I've gradually become increasingly vegan. I am largely vegan, but I'm a flexible vegan. I don't go to the supermarket and buy non-vegan stuff for myself. But when I'm traveling or going to other people's places, I will be quite happy to eat vegetarian rather than vegan. -- Peter Singer
I'm not a true vegan. -- Anthony Kiedis
Monogamous musicians are like vegan hockey players. -- Rob Sheffield
I would love to make @BarackObama vegan. -- Courtney Stodden
He's as nutty as a vegan T-bone. -- David Sedaris
I've been a vegan for about 15 years. -- Emily Deschanel
Being vegan just gives you such great karma. -- Alicia Silverstone
I'm not telling people to go vegan overnight. -- Heather Mills
I'm a proud vegan, whistle-blower, and animal rights activist. -- Steve-O
I became a vegan because I'm better than you -- Thom Yorke
A high percentage of vegan men look like lesbians. -- Dov Davidoff
I'm a vegan, but I like to look good, too. -- Andre Benjamin
I like being vegan, I think it's good for my health. -- Moby
I'm a vegan. I lost 150 pounds because of being a vegan. -- Mike Tyson
I enjoy cooking and baking. Alicia Silverstone's vegan cookbook is awesome. -- Mary-Louise Parker
in eating ecology love murder vegan vegetarianism flesh eating is unprovoked murder. -- Benjamin Franklin
I'm a level 5 vegan, I don't eat anything that casts a shadow. -- Matt Groening
Make vegan friends! It's a tough row to hoe doing it alone. -- Tom Regan
I'm a vegan, but you can be really unhealthy as a vegan, too. -- Emily Deschanel
A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do. -- Neal Barnard
I do recommend the vegan diet because you wake up and feel great! -- Jennifer Lopez
I'm really not an angry vegan, but human beings are f***ing rude. -- Russell Simmons
I try to stick to a vegan diet heavy on fruit and vegetables. -- Clint Eastwood
I can't think of anything better in the world to be but a vegan. -- Alicia Silverstone
I dream of a vegan world - that's where I want everything to go. -- Gene Baur
In my experience of vegan food it tends to be a symphony of beige. -- Jay Rayner
The best thing you can do for the planet is be vegan or vegetarian. -- William McNamara
My best performances were when I was 30 years old, and I was a vegan. -- Carl Lewis
Once you become a vegan, the food of the world opens up to you. -- Tom Regan
People's choice to become vegan, from people I've spoken to, seems motivated by fear. -- Anthony Bourdain
Make your next car electric, put solar panels on your roof, and go vegan. -- Leilani Munter
What Ive been developing is a vegan fast food chain and vegan food markets. -- Heather Mills
What I've been developing is a vegan fast food chain and vegan food markets. -- Heather Mills
I eat mostly vegan, try to get enough sleep. For me, that's really critical. -- Jorja Fox
You don't have to become a vegan. You can become a plant-passionate, plant-inspired bean lover! -- Kris Carr
Cheap meat is the problem. The answer is to replace meat recipes with vegan meals. -- Ingrid Newkirk
To be a gluten-free vegan is, like, the most difficult thing you can possibly be. -- Zooey Deschanel
My best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet. -- Carl Lewis
I try to only eat animals that are vegan. I'm probably the opposite of a vegan. -- Jim Gaffigan
It costs us so little to go vegan. It costs animals so much if we don't. -- Gary L. Francione
I make a vegan baked ziti. And even though that doesn't sound enjoyable, it really is. -- Lea Michele
I'm on a vegan diet, I do yoga every day, I work out, I'm totally spiritual ... -- Avril Lavigne
A vegan in a Hummer has a lighter carbon footprint than a beef eater in a Prius. -- Michael Pollan
You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan. -- 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
Being vegan helped me realize I can say and do what I believe is right. That's powerful. -- Alicia Silverstone
I am a vegan out of my love and respect for animals, as well as respect for myself. -- Davey Havok
Once I learned how to be a healthy vegan by eating the right foods my performance improved dramatically. -- Brendan Brazier
The reason my food bank is vegan is because I can't pay for animal products in good conscience. -- Sam Simon
I'm about 90 percent vegan. I think veganism is really well suited for training, at least for me anyway. -- Alanis Morissette
A vegan riding a hummer contributes less to greenhouse gas emissions than a meat eater riding a bicycle. -- Paul Watson
For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I'm doing the right thing by the animals. -- Alexandra Paul
I thought being vegan was going to be some really horrible way of life that had no flavor. -- Robin Quivers
When I became vegan 5 years ago, it was truly eye opening. I think it's all about perspective, really. -- Kat Von D
Vegetarian' is a slippery word. I don't eat cheese, I don't eat duck - the point is I'm vegan. -- Grace Slick
The vegan lifestyle is a compassionate way to live that supports life, supports fairness and equality, and promotes freedom. -- Robert Cheeke
You can't jump to vegan if you're not. Some people are absolute. Some people are able to be gradual. -- Russell Simmons
My fridge is really just vegan: coconut water, Gatorade (my favorite!), cucumbers, mint, kale, vegetables, ginger, and wheat grass. -- Serena Williams
I've seen a big gain in cardio since I went vegetarian and even gained a little more going vegan. -- Andy Lally
'Vegetarian' is a slippery word. I don't eat cheese, I don't eat duck - the point is I'm vegan. -- Grace Slick
Becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species. -- Chris Hedges
Being vegan doesn't make you a stronger, better athlete. But it allows you to make yourself a stronger, better athlete. -- Brendan Brazier
If you think that being vegan is difficult, imagine how difficult it is for animals that you are not vegan. -- Gary L. Francione
I'm really interested in vegan nail polishes, because a lot of nail polishes have a lot of toxins in them. -- G. Hannelius
I'm a vegan. I respect the environment, and I do my best to spread the importance of such an issue. -- Jared Leto
Leandros's favorite place had turned out not to be vegetarian, but vegan, which was for people who preferred their suicide slow. -- Rob Thurman
Being a vegan is pretty easy these days, as almost every town and city has health food stores and vegetarian-friendly restaurants. -- Moby

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