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Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.
My take is that the optimal approach to food, for health and ethical reasons, may be vegetarianism.
Some say vegetarianism is an alternative diet, but it is the original diet, the plan designed by God.
The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal.
For innumerable reasons, Mahamati, the Bodhisattva, whose nature is compassion, is not to eat any meat.
Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.
I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else.
Some people are still going to want to eat meat. We do agree though that vegetarianism is a healthier diet.
Your choice of diet can influence your long term health prospects more than any other action you might take.
A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.
Even if we cannot be completely non-voilent, by being vegetarian we are going in the direction of non-voilence
The salvation of birds and beasts, oneself included - this is the object of Shakyamuni's religious austerities.
A woman gains status when she refuses to see anything killed to be put on her back. Then she’s truly beautiful.
Vegetarianism is an act of the imagination. It reflects an ability to imagine alternatives to the texts of meat.
If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance.
In all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses.
I know vegetarians don't like to hear this, but God made an awful lot of land that's good for nothing but grazing.
I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.
The steam of meat darkens the light of the spirit...One hardly can have virtue when one enjoys meat meals and feasts.
In every respect, vegans appear to enjoy equal or better health in comparison to both vegetarians and non-vegetarians.
Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.
When we eat vegetarian foods, we needn't worry about what kind of disease our food died from; this makes a joyful meal!
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
Living entity is food for another living entity, it does not mean that I shall eat my children also. There is discretion.
Let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.
Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.
When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
Our food system takes abundant grain,which people can't afford,and shrinks it into meat,which better-off people will pay for.
In order to satisfy one human stomach, so many lives are taken away. We must promote vegetarianism. It is extremely important.
To consider yourself an environmentalist and still eat meat is like saying you're a philanthropist who doesn't give to charity.
Hitler was a vegetarian. Just goes to show, vegetarianism, not always a good thing. Can in some extreme cases lead to genocide.
He who, seeking his own happiness, punishes or kills beings who also long for happiness, will not find happiness after his death.
Therefore, vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of com-passion, which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world.
These days, I'm a hypocritical, philosophical vegetarian. Vegetarianism would be the right choice, but I really, really love meat.
The people of the future will say, 'meat-eaters!' in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
If a person does not harm any living being...and does not kill or cause others to kill - that person is a true spiritual practitioner
Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox.
It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery.
Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind.
How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?
I'm not going to comment on whether I support vegetarianism or non-vegetarianism; it's just that I feel I'm fit because I'm a vegetarian.
Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere.
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.
One who, while seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other living beings who also desire happinesss, will not find happiness hereafter.
I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to support any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life
On tour it's hard to be vegetarian, especially in Europe because vegetarianism is basically unheard of. They think you're either joking or mad.
I nearly always find, when I ask a vegetarian if he is a socialist, or a socialist if he is a vegetarian, that the answer is in the affirmative.