Quotes About Vegetarianism

It does take a little work to be a vegetarian but it's so worth it, oh it's so worth it!

My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.

When we were growing up, all of us kids were vegetarians. No one had asked me to stop eating meat - I just noticed everyone else around me had stopped, so I followed the crew.

I'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy. Take a salt bath. Do things that my parents were never able to do. I'm blessed to do anything I want, so I decide to take the best care of my body and my family in the same way. Holistically. Vitally.

I was raised as a Catholic and received the body and blood of Jesus Christ every Sunday at communion until I was thirty years of age, when I became a vegetarian.

I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.

I never eat meat as I think it is wrong to deprive animals of their life when they are so difficult to chew anyway

There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical and mental performance. Such food, moreover, taxes our digestive organs decidedly less, and, in making us more contented and sociable, produces an amount of good difficult to estimate.

To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.

If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat?

Al basar su alimentación en frutas, vegetales y cereales integrales, Scott obtiene la máxima cantidad de nutrientes del menor número posible de calorías, así que su cuerpo no se ve forzado a cargar o procesar volumen innecesario. Y dado que los carbohidratos abandonan el estómago con mayor rapidez que las proteínas, le es posible meter más horas de ejercicio en el día, ya que no debe esperar sentado a digerir las albóndigas.

Peacock in real life undid Shelley's vegetarianism by waving a steak under his nose when he fainted,

The biblical case for vegetarianism does not rest on the view that killing may never be allowable in the eyes of God, rather on the view that killing is always a grave matter. When we have to kill to live we may do so, but when we do not, we should live otherwise.

Eating a varied plant-based diet - and avoiding all meat, fish, chicken and dairy products - may have much to recommend it, but it's certainly not for everyone.

Meat supplies a variety of nutrients - among them iron, zinc, and Vitamin B12 - that are not readily found in plants. We can survive without it; millions of vegetarians choose to do so, and billions of others have that choice imposed upon them by poverty.

I eat a lot of fresh fruit and vegetables not so much meat and fish. Baguettes and croissants are not an everyday food for me.

I started to read labels around age 18 or 19. I don't buy things that don't sound like food, and I've been that way all my life. I do go through phases, during which I eat meat for maybe three months then don't. I do eat lots of vegetables. It's the same with dairy - I'll eat it then stop.

Economy forced me to become a vegetarian, but I finally starting liking it.

You're never going to persuade a meat-eater to become a vegetarian on taste grounds. They're completely different. One is a cleaner, fresher taste: it hasn't got that bass-note beefiness.

I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.

I think that religion is incredibly cruel, and I think that my biggest problem with being vegetarian, usually, is other vegetarians.

By the way, I'm not a vegetarian. I have a lot of respect for people who are vegetarian for religious or ethical reasons.

I've been a vegetarian since I was 19.

I drink a lot of water during the day irrespective of the season, and I follow a strictly vegetarian diet - which is a major factor for my success in staying slim and fit.