quotations about vegetarianism
Some people think the plant-based, whole-foods diet is extreme. Half a million people a year will have their chests opened up and a vein taken from their leg and sewn onto their coronary artery. Some people would call that extreme.
CALDWELL ESSELSTYN
Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease
From a purely outsider's point of view, vegetarians are a confusing lot. I have vegetarian friends who eat fish. I have vegetarian friends who eschew beef bouillon but who eat chicken. I have vegetarian friends (not many) who become indignant when it becomes clear I do not appreciate the purity of their diet: they do not drink milk, eat cheese, eggs or bird's nests, and only wear the hides of freshly slaughtered polyesters.
CHERYL PECK
Fat Girls and Lawn Chairs
I refuse to eat animals because I cannot nourish myself by the sufferings and by the death of other creatures.
EDGAR KUPFER-KOBERWITZ
Animals, My Brethren
Nothing compares with a cafe that feels like home. But that kind of cafe can be tough to find when you're a vegetarian.
MYCHEL MATTHEWS
"Eating veggies in meat-and-potatoes country", Twin Falls Times-News, April 4, 2017
Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless.
Christmas dinner's dark and blue.
When you stop and try to see it
From the turkey's point of view.
SHEL SILVERSTEIN
"Point of View", Vegetarian Times, November 1982
Refrain at all times from such foods as cannot be procured without violence and oppression.
THOMAS TRYON
attributed, Humanimal
Vegetarians, dropping meat, tend to fill up with too much starch. This leaves them no more healthy than meat-eaters, with constipation, indigestion, colds, catarrhs, coughs and chest complaints to plague them. Eating sparingly of breads, cakes, crackers, cookies, macaroni, spaghetti, anything largely starch, is a far step on the road to good health.
HELEN NEARING
Simple Food for the Good Life
All normal people love meat. If I went to a barbecue and there was no meat, I'd say, "Yo Goober! Where's the meat?" I'm trying to impress people here, Lisa. You don't win friends with salad.
HOMER SIMPSON
The Simpsons
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
SIR ROBERT HUTCHISON
attributed, Wordsworth Book of Humorous Quotations
Sunday dinner isn't sunny
Easter feasts are just bad luck
When you see it from the viewpoint
Of a chicken or a duck.
SHEL SILVERSTEIN
"Point of View", Vegetarian Times, November 1982
Vegetarians are preyed upon by those that are not.
RICHARD FORTEY
Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth
Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter-faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn. To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demiglace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN
Kitchen Confidential
Poor little innocent creatures, if you were reasoning beings and could speak, how you would curse us! For we are the cause of your death, and what have you done to deserve it?
SAINT RICHARD OF CHICHESTER
attributed, Lives of the Saints
I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.
RITA RUDNER
attributed, The Mammoth Book of Comic Quotes
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
attributed, Humanimal
It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as make up the state of our treats; as it is a prodigal one to spend more in sauce than in meat.
WILLIAM PENN
Some Fruits of Solitude
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
Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!
I'm not a vegetarian, but I eat animals who are.
GROUCHO MARX
attributed, The Mammoth Book of Comic Quotes
Anyone who lives in the fantasy world that vegetarianism is taking over needs to give their head a shake, meat lovers are ever increasing their consumption. U.S. Beef Production is projected to be 26.564 billion pounds in 2017, up 2.8 billion pounds from 2015.
JIM LONG
"Pork Commentary: US -- No Shortage of Meat Protein", The Pig Site, April 25, 2017
We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Glimpses of Bengal Letters