- “Input quality data, output quality performance.” ― Christian Baloga
- “I believe cooking can be fun, healthy, easy and tasty! I hope you find some recipes in here that are some nice healthy alternatives and become part of your weekly flow.” ― Angelika Angie Hofmann, Simple Healthy Delights
- “Several previous researches reported that stroke incidence is greater among participants with a higher consumption of red and processed meats because they tend to have unhealthy behaviors and conditions.15, 24, 25 Although studies included in this meta‐analysis adjusted for major stroke risk factors such as hypertension, diabetes mellitus, smoking, obesity, and alcohol use, the effect of unadjusted risk factors still remain.” ― Kyuwoong Kim
- “Those working in slaughterhouses, for example, are often underpaid and overworked, lack insurance, and are required to use dangerous equipment without adequate training. Turnover and rates of injury for jobs in anymal industries are among the highest in the United States. Slaughterhouse employees are almost always poor, they are often immigrants, and they are inevitably viewed by their employers as expendable. Moreover, if we would not like to kill pigs, hens, or cattle all day long, then we should not make food choices that require others to do so. Our dietary choices determine where others work. Will our poorest laborers work in fields of green or in buildings of blood? Fieldwork is difficult, but I worked in the fields as a child, and I am very glad that I never worked in a slaughterhouse.” ― Lisa Kemmerer, Animals and World Religions
- “No one is born with equality. We all come here with varying degrees of opportunities, qualities, strengths, weaknesses, IQ, etc.” ― Brandi L. Bates, Remains To Be Seen
- “There is no other industry as cruel and oppressive as factory farming. With regard to numbers affected, extent and length of suffering, and numbers of premature deaths, no other industry can even approach factory farming. Billions of individuals are exploited from genetically engineered birth, through excruciating confinement, to conveyor belt dismemberment. Consequently, there is no industry more appropriate for social justice activists to boycott.” ― Lisa Kemmerer, Speaking Up for Animals: An Anthology of Women’s Voices
- “Often, the greater our ignorance about something, the greater our resistance to change.” ― Marc Bekoff, Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect
- “Each day we wake up and make myriad choices that affect others. We clothe ourselves with shirts, pants, and shoes that may have been sewn together by women working in factories fourteen-plus hours a day for a nonliving wage; we buy products manufactured in ways the destroy forests, pollute waterways, and poison the air; we wash our hair with shampoos that may have been squeezed into the eyes of conscious rabbits or force-fed to them in quantities that kill; and on and on. As Derrick Jensen has written in his book “The Culture of Make Believe”, “It is possible to destroy a culture without being aware of its existence. It is possible to commit genocide or ecocide from the comfort of one’s living room” ― Zoe Weil, Most Good, Least Harm: A Simple Principle for a Better World and Meaningful Life
- “You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan.” ― GaryLFrancione
- “In modern parlance we speak of the interconnectedness of all life, suggesting that one cannot really be healthy when the environment is sick.” ― Richard A. Young, Is God a Vegetarian?: Christianity, Vegetarianism, and Animal Rights
- “Freedman and Barnouin reveal the truth in Skinny Bitch, but they encase the truth in lies–women must be skinny to be attractive and being attractive should be a priority–via the typical verbiage of female disempowerment.” ― Kim Socha, Confronting Animal Exploitation: Grassroots Essays on Liberation and Veganism
- “Speak to meat eaters the way you would speak to a wild animal: softly and without any sudden movements.” ― Carol J. Adams, Living Among Meat Eaters: The Vegetarian’s Survival Handbook
- “Disaster on an unfathomable scale is always taking place on Earth. Countless instances of extreme suffering are occurring in this moment — right now. Yet because this suffering is so normal and ordinary, simply occurring every day, distributed rather evenly over time and space, it seems less evocative and urgent than the more unusual, more localized disasters, such as school shootings and earthquakes. Almost all the suffering that occurs on Earth can be considered baseline horror, which allows us to ignore it. We simply do not feel the ever-present emergency that surrounds us.” ― Magnus Vinding, Suffering-Focused Ethics: Defense and Implications
- “Vegetarians and especially vegans have a significantly lower prevalence of obesity than meat eaters. Differences in macronutrient intakes (protein, fat, carbohydrate, dietary fibre, sugars, alcohol) accounted for about half the difference in mean body mass index (BMI) between vegans and meat eaters.” ― Emil Ginter
- “Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.” ― Paul Watson
- “„Wir essen keinen Fisch.“„Warum nicht?“„Das sind lackende und fickende Lebewesen.“„Hühner doch auch.“„Die esse ich auch nicht.” ― Luna Darko, Vergessene Kinder
- “Cruelty to animals is an enormous injustice; so is expecting those on the lowest rung of the economic ladder to do the dangerous, soul-numbing work of slaughtering sentient beings on our behalf.” ― Victoria Moran, Main Street Vegan: Everything You Need to Know to Eat Healthfully and Live Compassionately in the Real World
- “It’s nice to believe that when confronted with facts people will just suddenly respond to them but, in fact, most people don’t really work like that.” ― Jonathan Safran Foer
- “High animal protein in take was positively associated with mortality and high plant protein intake was inversely associated with mortality, especially among individuals with at least 1 lifestyle risk factor. Substitution of plant protein for animal protein, especially that from processed red meat, was associated with lower mortality, suggesting the importance of protein source.” ― Mingyang Song
- “Jīvaka, I say that there are three instances in which meat should not be eaten: when it is seen, heard, or suspected [that the living being has been slaughtered for oneself]. I say that meat should not be eaten in these three instances. I say that there are three instances in which meat may be eaten: when it is not seen, not heard, and not suspected [that the living being has been slaughtered for oneself]. I say that meat may be eaten in these three instances.” ― Gautama Buddha, The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya
- “When you don’t allow nature to take its course and keep interfering with its freedom and exploiting it, the repercussions are bound to happen. Freedom is the common goal which every organism strives to accomplish.” ― Shivanshu K. Srivastava
- “I wouldn’t touch a hot dog unless you put a condom on it! You realize that the job of a hot dog is to use parts of the animal that the Chinese can’t figure out how to make into a belt? -timecode 1:11:10” ― Bill Maher
- “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
- “Fasting followed by a vegetarian diet has a favorable influence on disease activity in some patients with rheumatoid arthritis. This effect cannot be explained entirely by psychobiologic factors, immunosuppression secondary to energy deprivation, changes in the plasma concentration of eicosanoid precursors, or changes in antibody activity against dietary antigens. Changes in disease activity were found to be associated with concurrent alterations in the fecal microflora and in the antibody activity against P. mirabilis. These findings may indicate that the beneficial effect of dietary treatment is caused by alterations in the microflora secondary to changes in the diet.” ― Jens Kjeldsen-Kragh
- “People said things to me like “They’re just animals. They’re here for our use.” I had a visceral reaction to that phrase, maybe because I was told countless times during my growing-up years that I was “just like an animal.” I had suffered much of my life because I was considered less than human. Animals were suffering because they were less than human. And it seemed to me that human didn’t have much to be proud of, if they treated other living things with such blind cruelty.” ― Elizabeth Kim, Ten Thousand Sorrows : The Extraordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphan
- “Animals are becoming more and more diseased, and it will not be long until animal food will be discarded by many besides Seventh-day Adventists.” ― Ellen G. White, Counsels on diet and foods: A compilation from the writings of Ellen G. White
- “This is why militarism is a feminist issue, why rape is an environmental issue, why environmental destruction is a peace issue.” ― Lierre Keith, The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability
- “Getting calcium from plants might seem a little strange in a society that is so focused on dairy foods as a source of calcium, but some research suggests that even omnivores get as much as 40 percent of their calcium from plant foods. While a strong dairy lobby has convinced many consumers that milk and other dairy foods are essential for a healthy diet, the ability to drink milk into adulthood is not the norm throughout the world. Normal development throughout most of the world involves a gradual loss of the enzyme needed to digest milk sugar after children are weaned from breast milk. We refer to the lack of this enzyme as “lactose intolerance.” But that’s definitely a western bias since this “intolerance” is not a lack or an abnormality; it’s part of normal human development in most people.” ― Jack Norris, Vegan for Life: Everything You Need to Know to Be Healthy and Fit on a Plant-Based Diet
- “Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance. It is our statement that we reject the notion that animals are things and that we regard sentient nonhumans as moral persons with the fundamental moral right not to be treated as the property or resources of humans.” ― GaryLFrancione
- “Sister Carmelita says animals don’t have souls””Of course animals have souls, where did she get that idea?””She said the Pope says.” “The Pope’s an old meanie. Animals have much nicer souls than we do. They never tell lies or blow anybody up.” “They eat each other.” “Well, they have to eat each other; they can’t go to Dairy Queen and get a large vanilla cone with sprinkles, can they? “”They could eat grass.””So could we, but we don’t. We eat hamburgers.” ― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler’s Wife