#vegetarianism

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie. ↗

— Jim Davis

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Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose, keep in touch (or don't), care about birthdays, waste and lose time, brush their teeth, feel nostalgia, scrub stains, have religions and political parties and laws, wear keepsakes, apologize years after an offense, whisper, fear themselves, interpret dreams, hide their genitalia, shave, bury time capsules, and can choose not to eat something for reasons of conscience. The justifications for eating animals and for not eating them are often identical: we are not them. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

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A man can live and 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. And to act so is immoral. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

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The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#food #food-safety #non-fiction #vegetarianism #food

You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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This for many people is what is most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing. It's not as though the rest of us don't countenance the killing of tens of millions of animals every year. Yet for some reason we feel more comfortable with the mechanical killing practiced, out of view and without emotion by industrial agriculture. ↗

— Michael Pollan

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You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals. ↗

— Paul McCartney

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Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more. ↗

— Franz Kafka

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I have lived temperately, eating little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principal diet. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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