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Quotes About Veganism

I haven't eaten an animal in over twenty years!
~ Matt Skiba
I dream of a vegan world - that's where I want everything to go.
~ Gene Baur
Beans have a soul.
~ Pythagoras
From cutting the throat of a young calf to cutting the throat of our brothers and sisters is but a step. While we are ourselves the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal conditions of the earth!" -Isadora Duncan
~ Carol J. Adams
Speak to meat eaters the way you would speak to a wild animal: softly and without any sudden movements.
~ Carol J. Adams
Adopting a vegan diet brings your choices and actions in line with those same beliefs that underlie a commitment to resisting regressive politics: generosity, compassion, and a commitment to justice and fairness. By acting in a way that reflects your values and what you believe, you relieve the cognitive dissonance that can make stress and depression worse.
~ Carol J. Adams
Our lives are a meaningful stand against injustice, and we can make meaningful choices every day. Your food choices are far more powerful than you imagine. Veganism offers a daily way to enact your values while helping to protect the environment and enhance your health. It becomes a daily reminder that change is possible. Social change is not just something we must work for; it's something that constantly asks us to change.
~ Carol J. Adams
For animals, for humans, for the planet: It makes sense to curb meat consumption, and that is something vegans and omnivores agree on. Roughly two-thirds of Americans report reducing their meat consumption, and many are sensitive to the way their diet might be damaging the planet.
~ Annie Lowrey
We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.
~ Gary L. Francione
Veganism is not a "sacrifice." It is a joy.
~ Gary L. Francione
You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan.
~ Gary L. Francione
I try not to push veganism specifically. If I'm asked for my advice, I say just eat healthy.
~ Daniel Negreanu
As for my daily, it usually consists of a smoothie in the morning with banana, spinach and blueberry and veggie protein powder, then some kind of tofu or tempeh scramble with veggies. Later, I may have some type of rice and beans, salad with lentils, sweet potato, nut butter sandwich and another smoothie.
~ Austin Aries
As long as man eats animals how can cruelty to animals be removed.
~ Morarji Desai
I-man say don't make jah body a graveyard for de dead animals.
~ Bob Marley
Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food
~ Henry David Thoreau
couldn't bear to eat anything that had once had parents.
~ Kristin Hannah
It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.
~ Kurt Cobain
It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.
~ Kurt Cobain
Let's say you were starving. You were going to die any day of starvation. Would you go into a supermarket and steal a can of tuna?" "I'm a vegan." "Nobody's a vegan when they're starving.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
It appeals to the higher nature of the self to put aside food which once lived - I do not consider myself food, why should I ask all other creatures to consider themselves so?
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I would much rather devour a piece of well-seasoned squash than a slice of an animal's rotting carcass.
~ Jane Velez-Mitchell
When I first started playing metal, lyrically, I sort of related a little bit more to the punk and hardcore scenes, where there was a lot more veganism and straight-edge people and people taking a stance for causes that they believe in.
~ Alissa White-Gluz
I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes. After all, man can live without meat.
~ Dalai Lama