Quotes About Veganism

Ben West, one of the effective altruists mentioned in chapter 4, has shown that even if your goal were solely to slow down climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, you could do that more effectively by donating to organizations that are encouraging people to go vegetarian or vegan than by donating to leading carbon-offsetting organizations.

even the most zealous vegans can weed their garden and wipe out untold millions of germs with disinfectants ("green" ones, of course) without suffering a single pang of guilt.

I do not want an animal to die for me.

I was one of those kids who found it difficult to eat anything that looked like an animal.

I don't eat or wear animals, but I never tell people not to - that's just my view.

My biggest vice? Vegan cupcakes, which are delicious.

In fact, just heading toward veganism lifts a not insignificant burden from the earth. According to food pundit Michael Pollan, who's not a vegetarian, if everybody did even "Meatless Monday," it would be the environmental equivalent of taking 20 million midsize cars off the road.

There is nothing more 'elitist' than thinking our palate pleasure can ever justify a second of suffering or a single death. Please go vegan.

...eating animals involves an intentional decision to participate in the suffering and death of nonhumans where there is no plausible moral justification.

I don't eat eggs.

I don't use any animal products, both because of ethical and environmental and climate reasons.

All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true, how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances, such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window?

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.

I'm always active in trying to educate people when it comes to eating animal products, testing on animals, and the health benefits of being vegan, although I'm probably not the best person to be talking about the latter at the moment.

Which is why I recommend that, if you cannot assure adequacy with blood work, non-fish eaters, vegans, and flexitarians take a low-dose algae supplement of about 200 milligrams of EPA and DHA per day, with at least 100 milligrams from the DHA

Iodine and zinc are other nutrients of concern in the vegan diet, though the majority of individuals on vegan diets are not deficient; again, blood tests can be utilized to confirm adequacy.

The only other nutrients low or borderline low with a diet without animal products are B12, zinc, iodine, and the marine fats eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), all of which are easily supplemented. Of course, vitamin D, the "sunshine vitamin," also has to be considered because deficiencies are common and can lead to serious health problems.

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.

My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.

We are the living graves of murdered beasts.

Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that

I never wear leather.

Meat isn't murder, it's delicious.