"The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. If beef is your idea of ‘real food for real people,’ you'd better live real close to a real good hospital." --Neal D. Barnard, M.D., President Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine

"Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends" -- George Bernard Shaw

"Now I can look at you in peace. I don't eat you anymore." -- Franz Kafka (remark made while admiring fish)

"Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies... that which to us is merely an evening's meal, but to them is life itself." -- T. Casey Brennan

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

"To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana." --Buddha

"I'm stopped. I'll never eat another burger". --Oprah Winfrey

Once I was fishing and caught the hook in the fish's eye. That was the last time I ate a killed creature . --Janet Barkas, editor of Grove Press

The world's environment can no longer handle beef. --Jeremy Rifkin of Beyond Beef

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

So you are the people tearing down the Brazilian rainforest and breeding cattle. --Prince Philip to McDonald's of Canada

The awful cruelty and terror to which tens of thousands of animals killed for human food are subjected in traveling long distances by ship and rail and road to the slaughterhouses of the world. God disapproves of all cruelty.. whether to man or beast. The occupation of slaughtering animals is brutalising to those who are required to do the work.... I believe this matter is well worthy of the serious consideration of Christian leaders. --Mrs. Booth and General Bramwell Booth of the Salvation Army

I went snorkeling and noticed how gently the fish welcomed us into their world.. as compared to the violence with which we welcomed them into ours. I became a vegetarian. --Syndee Brinkman

May those who oppose capital punishment for humans extend that protection to animals as well . May those who oppose germ and other biological warfare work to end the unconscious biological warfare unwittingly waged on those who eat animal products. Those who are prolife would logically become vegetarian. Those who are prochoice would not want to impose their wills upon the body of a cow, sheep or pig. --Unknown

Thousands of animals (now billions) are butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. It cries vengeance upon all the human race. --Romain Rolland

We should live in harmony with Earth not conquer it.. or the animals. The other members of the National Football League say I'm in the minority.. but they are. A majority of the world is vegetarian. --Former Pittsburgh Steeler and NY Giant football Player Glenn Scolnick

Some people are still going to want to eat meat.. we do agree though that vegetarianism is a healthier diet. --David Stroud of the American Meat Institute

Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. --Albert Einstein

All creation has the same right to life. --Sun Bear and Jaya Bear

Why not just put sterilization hormones in the deer food rather than killing them? --Dan Ryan, Youngstown talk show host

A human can be healthy without killing animals for food. Therefore if he eats meat he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. --Leo Tolstoy

"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. " --Isaac Singer

We stopped eating meat many years ago. During the course of a Sunday lunch we happened to look out of the kitchen window at our young lambs playing happily in the fields. Glancing down at our plates, we suddenly realised we were eating the leg of an animal who had until recently been playing in a field herself. We looked at each other and said: "Wait a minute, we love these sheep-they're such gentle creatures. So why are we eating them?" It was the last time we ever did. --Paul and Linda McCartney

If any kid ever realized what was involved in factory farming they would never touch meat again.I was so moved by the intelligence,sense of fun and personalities of the animals I worked with on Babe that by the end of the film I was a vegetarian. --James Cromwell

Their were no Slaughterhouses in the Garden of Eden. --Unknown

You're thinking I'm one of those wise-ass California vegetarians who is going to tell you that eating a few strips of bacon is bad for your health. I'm not. I say its a free country and you should be able to kill yourself at any rate you choose, as long as your cold dead body is not blocking my driveway. --Scott Adams(writter of Dilbert)

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian. We feel better about ourselves and better about the animals, knowing we're not contributing to their pain. --Paul and Linda McCartney

If you could see or feel the suffering you wouldn't think twice. Give back life. Don't eat meat. --Kim Basinger

I grew up in cattle country-that's why I became a vegetarian. Meat stinks, for the animals, the environment, and your health. --K.D. Lang

A Univ. of NC study linked hot dogs to childhood leukemia. --Fox News Jan 15th Kathy Wolff

My respect and empathy towards animals includes sea dwellers too--from dolphins to fish to lobsters. So, of course, I wouldn't dream of eating them. --Alexandra Paul

Compassion is the foundation of everything positive, everything good. If you carry the power of compassion to the marketplace and the dinner table, you can make your life really count. --Rue McClanahan

How can you eat anything with eyes! --Will Kellogg

"We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear. " --Robert Louis Stevenson

"You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed In the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard". --River Phoniex

"I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open and put them on cholesterol-lowering drugs for the rest of their lives." --Dean Ornish, MD

"I don't eat chicken anymore. I won't eat it. I won't allow it in my house." --Rodney Leonard -U.S. Poultry inspection

"Based on my experience in Los Angeles, my advice to the public is not to eat meat." --Gregorio Natavidad-meat inspector

It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation, that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion; and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust. --Percy Bysshe Shelley

I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live. I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world - if we are superior to it. --Mohandas Gandhi

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body. --Mohandas Gandhi

God gave our first parents the food He designed that the race should eat. It was contrary to His plan to have the life of any creature taken. There was to be no death in Eden. The fruit of the trees in the garden was the food man's wants required. --Ellen White

"The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak would finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism." --George Bernard Shaw

"When we kill animals to eat them they end up killing us because their flesh...was never intended for human beings, who are naturally herbivores." --William C. Roberts, M.D

"To be a vegetarian is to disagree---to disagree with the course of things today. Starvation,world hunger,cruelty,waste,wars---we must make a statement against these things.Vegetarianism is my statment. And I think it's a strong one." --Isaac Bashevis Singer

Vegetarians always ask about getting enough protein. But I don't know any nutrition expert (who) can plan a diet of natural foods resulting in a protein deficiency, so long as you're not deficient in calories. You need only 5 or 6 percent of total calories in protein... and it is pratically impossible to get below 9 percent in ordinary diets. --Nathan Pritikin

Excessive animal protein is at the core of many chronic diseases. --Dr.Campbell

Yes, sometimes unusual things happen after a switch to a vegetarian diet. I've seen a number of cases in which the poor people broke out in violent attacks of good health,followed by bouts of physical exercise and sweet thoughts. --Anonymous

The standard four food groups are based on American agricultural lobbies. Why do we have a milk group? Because we have a National Dairy Council. Why do we have a meat group? Because we have an extremely powerful meat lobby. --Marion Nestle

Vegetarians have the best diet. They have the lowest rates of coronary disease of any group in the country....Some people scoff at vegetarians, but they have a fraction of our heart attack rate and they have only 40 percent of our cancer rate. They outlive other people by about six years now. --Dr.William Castelli,M.D.

I was raised on a dairy farm and ate plenty of meat and eggs until about twenty years ago. I started doing nutritional research, and a decade pr so after that my family made some major dietary changes. I'm just paying attention to what the data are telling me: The scientific evidence came first. --T. Colin Campbell

There is strong medical evidence that complete freedom from eating animal flesh or cow's milk products is a gateway to optimal nutritional health. --Dr.Klaper

Would you like to go to pasture with a chicken,cut him up, then drop him into a fresh manure pile, and eat him? That's what the project is like coming from chicken plants today. --Chicken Inspector

It used to be if a bird had a severe contamination, you condemned the sucker. But nowadays my own supervising inspector says, "There can be no more bad birds on your tally. You've had to many." --A seven year poultry inspector

There exists a substantial body of competent and reliable scientific evidence that eating eggs increases the risk of heart attacks or heart disease....This evidence is systematic,consistent,strong,and congruent. --Judge Ernest G. Barnes

When you see the golden arches you are probally on your way to the pearly gates. --William Castelli,M.D.

The fact is that there is enough food in the world for everyone. But tragically, much of the world's food and land resources are tied up in producing beef and other livestock--food for the well off--while millions of children and adults suffer from malnutrition and starvation. --Dr.Walden Bello

The American fast food diet and the meat eating habits of the wealthy around the world support a world food system that diverts food resources from the hungry.A diet higher in whole grains and legumes and lower in beef and other meat is not just healthier for ourselves but also contributes to changing the world system that feeds some people and leaves others hungry. --Dr.Walden Bello

"I don't eat meat, fish, or eggs. I was never a big meat-eater, but I've got more energy now," says Shania, who hasn't eaten an animal since she married longtime vegetarian (and record producer) Mutt Lange. --Shania Twain