- “prepare your food in keeping with monastic traditions—simple, basic, healthy, balanced.” ― Mary DeTurris Poust, Cravings: A Catholic Wrestles with Food, Self-Image, and God
- “There is no requirement that the cows, pigs, or hens who were exploited to create “natural” productsbe treated any different from how other factory farmed animals are treated. Farmed animals who are exploited for “natural” products are not allowed tolive in natural conditions—they are not even allowed to satisfy their most basic natural behaviors. Despite consumer assumptions about what “natural” means, . . . the USDA’s “natural” food labels only regulate “the presence of artificial additives and the degree of processing.”“Free range,” “cage free,” and “certified humane” labels are just as meaningless for farmed animals as are “all natural” labels. Just like farmed animals enslaved by organic industries, farmed animals exploited by “freerange,” “cage free,” and “certified humane” producers are routinely debeaked, disbudded, detoed, castrated, their tails are docked, and/or they are branded (depending on the species). Neither do “free range” and “certified humane” labels protect cows from perpetual impregnation, pregnancy, birth, calfsnatching, transport, or dismemberment (slaughter) at a very young age. Finally, “free range,” “cage free,” and “certified humane” labels fail to help“spent” hens, who are sent to slaughter at the same youthful age.” ― Lisa Kemmerer, Speaking Up for Animals: An Anthology of Women’s Voices
- “Onion tartlets, pastry puffs stuffed with cheese, a terrine of mushroom and hazelnuts. There’s an pharaoh-sized pyramid of exotic fruits. The pineapples alone must have cost a small fortune. And, of course, there’s the sham.” ― Tessa Dare, The Wallflower Wager
- “I don’t believe vegans (or vegetarians) who still get their (packaged, preservative/chemical-ridden) food from industrial food systems have any righteous ground to stand on, nor do I think a deep look at the sentient life of plants or the true environmental impact of agriculture permits them any comfortable distance from cruelty. Everything in this world eats something else to survive, and that something else, whether running on blood or chlorophyll, would always rather continue to live rather than become sustenance for another. No animal wants to be penned up and milked, or caged and harvested, and you’ve never seen plants growing in regimented lines of their own accord.” ― Brian Awehali
- “They served “Good Food” but only a G, an O and a D were lit up. Personally, I doubted God dined there. Unless God was keen on samonella poisoning and rat droppings in the hamburgers. But then again, what did I know?” ― Julie Kenner, Torn
- “Will you dance for me? Let your breasts roam for a moment — I need to see how they dance.”Okay.’ She danced, and as she danced, she tried to think of the most delicious salads she could imagine — with artichokes and sundried tomato and blue cheese dressing, and beets, lots of beets.” ― Nicholson Baker, House of Holes
- “Fidelity is a living, breathing entity. On wobbly footing, it can wander, becoming something different entirely.” ― Kay Goodstadt, Love and Death Over Tea
- “There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
- “Eliminate the concept of division by class, skills, race, income, and nationality. We are all equals with a common pulse to survive. Every human requires food and water. Every human has a dream and desire to be happy. Every human responds to love, suffering and pain. Every human bleeds the same color and occupies the same world. Let us recognize that we are all part of each other. We are all human. We are all one.” ― Suzy Kassem
- “If your grocery store has a healthy food section, what is the rest of the store?” ― Freequill
- “Fed by plants, fed up with the world” ― Evan Baldonado
- “Life itself is the proper binge.” ― Julia Child
- “Ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore — “I’m easy; I’ll eat anything” — can appear more socially sensitive than the individual who tries to eat in a way that is good for society.” ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals
- “eat, baby.eat.chew.please.I know it hurts. I know it doesn’t feel good.please.I know your hunger is different than mine.I know it doesn’t taste the same as mine.imagine you could grow up all over againand pinpoint the millisecond that you startedcounting calories like casualties of war,mourning each one like it had a family.would you?sometimes I wonder that.sometimes I wonder if you would go backand watch yourself reappear and disappear right in front of your own eyes.and I love you so much.I am going to hold your little hand through the night.just please eat. just a little.you wrote a poem once,about a city of walking skeletons.the teacher called home because youtold her you wished it could be like thathere.let me tell you something about bones, baby.they are not warm or soft.the wind whistles through them like they areholes in a tree.and they break, too. they break right in half.they bruise and splinter like wood.are you hungry?I know. I know how much you hate that question.I will find another way to ask it, someday.please.the voices.I know they are all yelling at you to stretch yourself thinner.l hear them counting, always counting.I wish I had been there when the world made yousnap yourself in half.I would have told you that your body is not a war-zone,that, sometimes,it is okay to leave your plate empty.” ― Caitlyn Siehl
- “Without pushing an agenda (okay, maybe I’ve pushed a bit), I’ve spread a little veganism wherever I’ve gone. I’ve become friends with chefs at the meatiest restaurants you can imagine, and shown them a few things that opened their minds (and their menus) to vegan options. It’s easy to be convincing when the food is delicious. It doesn’t feel like a sacrifice–it feels like a step up.” ― Tal Ronnen, The Conscious Cook: Delicious Meatless Recipes That Will Change the Way You Eat
- “What would you have? Your gentleness shall force More than your force move us to gentleness.” ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
- “In my mother’s book, a vegetarian is somebody who is not concern with his or her diet and health. “Someone who prefer bush and grass, as if they is sheeps and cows, is somebody who don’t have enough food to put in his mouth,” she always say.Only vegetarians eat dryfood regularly—and like to eat it, too. It is not considered normal for a person to cook food that doesn’t have some amount o’ meat or fish to go with it. Only someone who is starving, who don’t have money to buy a fish head or a single flying fish or even the head of a dolphin—in other words, a person who is “catching his arse”—has to eat dryfood. A person at this stage is a person one remove from having to cook bakes for breakfast, lunch and dinner.” ― Austin Clarke, Pig Tails ‘n Breadfruit
- “If you go to Singapore or Amsterdam or Seoul or Buenos Aires or Islamabad or Johannesburg or Tampa or Istanbul or Kyoto, you’ll find that the people differ wildly in the way they dress, in their marriage customs, in the holidays they observe, in their religious rituals, and so on, but they all expect the food to be under lock and key. It’s all owned, and if you want some, you’ll have to buy it.” ― Daniel Quinn
- “In your name, the family name is at last because it’s the family name that lasts.” ― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
- “What is life? Life is living in this moment, experiencing and experimenting but experience isn’t life. Life is reflecting and meditating but reflection isn’t life. Life is helping and guiding but philanthropy isn’t life. Life is eating and drinking but food isn’t life. Life is reading and dancing but art isn’t life. Life is kissing and pleasuring but sex isn’t life. Life is winning and losing but competition isn’t life. Life is loving and caring but love isn’t life. Life is birthing and nurturing but children aren’t life. Life is letting go and surrendering but death isn’t life. Life is all these things but all these things aren’t life. Life is always more.” ― Kamand Kojouri
- “I mean really, how could an artistic individual stay grounded in the nitty-gritty of how many minutes per pound meat has to stay in the oven when trying to fathom the creative philosophy behind the greatest artistic minds of the world?” ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly,
- “That said, protecting anymals protects human beings: There are four other critical reasons that the world’s largest religions rightly pay particular attention to anymals—and particular attention to what we eat. Aside from respect for life and compassion for anymals, we ought to choose a vegan diet for the sake of the environment, to alleviate world hunger, to protect laborers, and on behalf of our own health. The consequences of our dietary choices are monumental” ― Lisa Kemmerer, Animals and World Religions
- “What if there were health food stores on every corner in the hood, instead of liquor stores!?” ― Supa Nova Slom, The Remedy: The Five-Week Power Plan to Detox Your System, Combat the Fat, and Rebuild Your Mind and Body
- “The phytochemicals, antioxidants, and fiber- all of the healthful components of plant foods- originate in plants, not animals. If they are present, it is because the animal ate plants. And why should we go through an animal to get the benefits of the plants themselves? To consume unnecessary, unseemly, and unhealthy substances, such as saturated fat, animal protein, lactose, and dietary cholesterol, is to negate the benefits of the fiber, phytonutrients, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants that are prevalent and inherent in plants.” ― Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, Color Me Vegan: Maximize Your Nutrient Intake and Optimize Your Health by Eating Antioxidant-Rich, Fiber-Packed, Color-Intense Meals That Taste Great
- “I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work.Let God worry about your modesty; I want to see your enthusiasm.” ― Robert Farrar Capon
- “Wait. Why am I thinking about Krispy Kremes? We’re supposed to be exercising.” ― Meg Cabot, Big Boned
- “To respect what one eats is to respect the self.” ― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, The Magic of Nature: Meditations & Spells to Find Your Inner Voice
- “You looked into my eyes and said, “I’m going to order you more fries.” That’s when I knew I could fall in love with you.” ― Lidia Longorio, Hey Humanity
- “Most folks don’t have but a few days to a week’s worth of food in their houses at any given time. When they run out, they’ll have to forage. Only the fools will forage in town. The smart ones will look on the outskirts.” ― Edward M. Wolfe, Hell on Ice
- “Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.” ― Orson Welles