Quotes About Awareness

In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do.

The most important thing to remember about food labels is that you should avoid foods that have labels.

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Most people don't realize this, but you can eat organic, all natural, gluten-free food without telling everyone around you.

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

I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can't think of anything else. Well, so did I once, but that was before the egg and I.

What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

The quest for slowness, which begins as a simple rebellion against the impoverishment of taste in our lives, makes it possible to rediscover taste.

Practice good personal hygiene. Wash your hands before you eat. Be aware of good clean water and food sources.

Everyone eats and drinks; yet only few appreciate the taste of food.

What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms.

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

All living beings, not just animals, but plants and microorganisms, perceive. To survive, an organic being must perceive - it must seek, or at least recognize, food and avoid environmental danger.

I think the lack of critical engagement with the food that we eat demonstrates the extent to which the commodity form has become the primary way in which we perceive the world.

Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

If only a small fraction of what is already known about the effects of sugar were to be revealed in relation to any other material used as a food additive, that material would promptly be banned.

The hungrier one becomes, the clearer one's mind works— also the more sensitive one becomes to the odors of food.

I find the less attention I pay to food, the healthier I am.

Preparing food is not just about yourself and others. It is about everything!

What we eat has changed more in the last 40 years than in the previous 40,000. The survival of the current food system depends upon widespread ignorance of how it really operates.

Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.

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

A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one's accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes.