“It has been well said that the food one consumes determines one's thoughts. By eating the flesh of various animals, the qualities of these animals are imbibed. How sinful is it to feed on animals, which are sustained by the same five elements as human beings! This leads to demonic tendencies, besides committing the sin of inflicting cruelty on animals.” HumansWellsHas BeensSaidHuman BeingsSinAnimalQualityFiveElementsEatingDetermineVariousFleshCrueltyTendenciesDemonicWell SaidFive Elements Author:Sathya Sai Baba
“If price spikes don't change eating habits, perhaps the combination of deforestation, pollution, climate change, starvation, heart disease and animal cruelty will gradually encourage the simple daily act of eating more plants and fewer animals.” IfsHeartSimpleAnimalHabitDiseaseEatingPlantClimateClimate ChangeCrueltyCombinationFewerPollutionStarvationDon't ChangeAnimal CrueltyHeart DiseaseDeforestationEating Habits Book:A Bone to Pick: The good and bad news about food, with wisdom and advice on diets, food safety, GMOs, farming, and more Source: A Bone to Pick: The good and bad news about food, with wisdom and advice on diets, food safety, GMOs, farming, and more
“If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There's also the environmental argument for it.” IfsAnimalEatingArgumentEnvironmentalCrueltyMeatLabsEating MeatAnimal Intelligence Author:Margaret Atwood
“I think if you're against cruelty and you look at what happens to animals in slaughterhouses and on factory farms, you have to be completely against eating meat.” IfsThinkingLooksHappensAnimalEatingCrueltyMeatFarmsFactoriesSlaughterhousesEating Meat Author:Ingrid Newkirk
“Cruelty...prefers abstraction. Some have tried to resolved this gap by hunting or butchering an animal themselves, as if those experiences might somehow legitimize the endeavor of eating animals. This is very silly. Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it woudln't be the most reasonable way to understand why you should or shouldn't do it.” IfsWayShouldMightAnimalProveEatingCapableKillingSillyCrueltyReasonableGapsEndeavorHuntingAbstractionEating Animals Author:Jonathan Safran Foer
“If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat. That's the single most important thing you could do. It's staggering when you think about it. Vegetarianism takes care of so many things in one shot: ecology, famine, cruelty.” IfsThinkingWantImportantCarePlanetsEatingShotsImportant ThingsTake CareCrueltyMeatEcologyVegetarianismFamineStaggeringEating MeatSave The Planet Author:Paul McCartney