13 Vegetarian/Vegan Quotes

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“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.” ~ Paul McCartney
“Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant? I’m halfway through my fishburger and I realize, Oh my God. I could be eating a slow learner.” ~ Lynda Montgomery
“I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.” ~ A. Whitney Brown
“Everyone’s a pacifist between wars. It’s like being a vegetarian between meals.” ~ Colman McCarthy
“Cruelty to animals can become violence to humans.” ~ Ali MacGraw
“I don’t understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open and put them on cholesterol-lowering drugs for the rest of their lives.” ~ Dean Ornish, M.D.
“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.” ~ Froude
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” ~ Mohandas Gandhi
“You’re thinking I’m one of those wise-ass California vegetarians who is going to tell you that eating a few strips of bacon is bad for your health. I’m not. I say its a free country and you should be able to kill yourself at any rate you choose, as long as your cold dead body is not blocking my driveway.” ~ Scott Adams, writer of Dilbert
“Humans are the only hunters who kill when not hungry.” ~ Steven Speilberg
“I turned vegetarian after 9/11. A friend of mine came back from New York and said that he couldn’t stand the smell of burnt flesh. It immediately reminded me of a barbecue.” ~ Alyssa Milano
“I sometimes think, would I drink the milk from the breast of a woman I don’t know? No. So I think, why would I drink it from a cow.” ~ Devon Aoki
“I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent this implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, or I might be a vegetarian, make me any less of an American. ” ~ Peter Seeger

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