Quotes About Ethics

A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.

I haven't bought any leather articles for a very long time. My ideal is to be able to avoid all animal products, in food as well as clothing.

OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to the poor.

A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food.

Becoming a vegan is a sure way of completely avoiding participation in the abuse of farmed animals. Vegans are a living demonstration of the fact that we do not need to exploit animals for food.

I think animals should be free. There's so much other food out there that doesn't have to involve you in that cycle of pain and death.

Every individual who eats flesh food, whether an animal is killed expressely for him or not, is supporting the trade of slaughtering and contributing to the violent deaths of harmless animals.

We don't need to eat anyone who would run, swim, or fly away if he could.

A human can be healthy without killing animals for food.

Meat isn't murder, it's delicious.

When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.

We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do.

He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart

I don't eat friggin' lobster or anything like that. Because they're alive when you kill it.

I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.

Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.

The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.

The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.

Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.

Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.

Grub first, then ethics.

Pigs may not be as cuddly as kittens or puppies, but they suffer just as much.

Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?

They are nonhuman persons. They are not food. If animals matter morally at all, there is one and only one rational response: go vegan. Everything else is just participation in animal exploitation.