Franz Kafka
"If you could see or feel the suffering you wouldn't think twice. Give back life. Don't eat meat."
Kim Basinger
"I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will
look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men. "
Leonardo Da Vinci
"You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll
buy you a new car. "
Harvey Diamond
"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
"How can you eat anything with eyes? "
Will Kellogg (creator "Kellogg's Corn Flakes")
"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
"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
"I do not like eating meat because I have seen lambs and pigs killed. I saw and felt their pain. They
felt the approaching death. I could not bear it. I cried like a child. I ran up a hill and could not
breathe. I felt that I was choking. I felt the death of the lamb. "
Vaslav Nijinsky (dancer and choreographer)
"But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that
proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy. "
Plutarch
"You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed I the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Has anyone sung the song of the patient, calf-bearing, milk-flowing, cud-chewing, tail-switching cow?"
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends. "
George Bernard Shaw (playwright, Nobel 1925)
"While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal
conditions on this earth? "
George Bernard Shaw
"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 Bashevis Singer (author, Nobel 1978)
"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
