167 Vegan Diet Quotes

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Famous Vegan Diet Quotes

A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do. — Neal Barnard

I try to stick to a vegan diet heavy on fruit and vegetables. — Clint Eastwood

The vegan lifestyle is a compassionate way to live that supports life, supports fairness and equality, and promotes freedom. — Robert Cheeke

My best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet. — Carl Lewis

Veganism gives us all the opportunity to say what we "stand for" in life- the ideal of healthy, humane living. Add decades to your life, with a clear conscience as a bonus. — Donald Watson

A plant-based diet is more likely to produce good health and to reduce sharply the risk of heart problems, cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis, gallstones, and kidney disease. — T. Colin Campbell

Veganism is not a limitation in any way; it's an expansion of your love, your commitment to nonviolence, and your belief in justice for all. — Gary L. Francione

The more animal products you remove from your diet, the better you feel. The difference between vegetarian and vegan is huge. I feel so much better as a vegan. — Pamela Anderson

A human can be healthy without killing animals for food. — Leo Tolstoy

Veganism is not a "sacrifice." It is a joy. — Gary L. Francione

Becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species. — Chris Hedges

I've found that eating vegan the last five or six months has really given me energy, I feel good and I look fabulous. — Ted Danson

If the vegan diet doesn’t work out for you, at least you can do something for animals – whether that’s the way you eat or the way you dress, everything helps, really. — Sadie Sink

Veganism affirms what is best for us, what is best for the animals, and what is best for the environment. Everywhere you look, you find veganism entwined with what is best. — Tom Regan

There's no question that largely vegetarian diets are as healthy as you can get. The evidence is so strong and overwhelming and produced over such a long period of time that it's no longer debatable. — Marion Nestle

Short Vegan Diet Quotes

  • Being vegan helped me realize I can say and do what I believe is right. That's powerful. — Alicia Silverstone
  • I can't think of anything better in the world to be but a vegan. — Alicia Silverstone
  • I'll remind you one more time, I've treated a lot of vegans for heart disease. — Caldwell Esselstyn
  • I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat. — Lasse Hallstrom
  • My favorite plant-based food is red meat. — Robert Breedlove
  • The best diet is one you don't realise you're following. — Chris Williamson
  • Vegetarianism is a way of living consciously on the planet. — Amy Smart

Vegan Diet Image Quotes

Vegan diet quote The six best doctors: Sunshine, water, rest, air, exercise and diet.
The six best doctors: Sunshine, water, rest, air, exercise and diet.

Vegan Day Quotes

One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our souls and become worthier of sharing this planet with them. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Thousands of animals (now billions) are butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. It cries vengeance upon all the human race. — Romain Rolland

For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day. - Evelyn Underhill

For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day. — Evelyn Underhill

Vegan diet quote No diet will remove all the fat from your body, becayse the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain,
No diet will remove all the fat from your body, becayse the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.

There’s nothing like starting the day with a healthy, filling breakfast smoothie. — Hannah Bronfman

Since most people only pay lip service to the injustices of the world, because one cannot affect the outcome of an atrocity like the Darfur genocide, veganism is your only chance to stand up for what's right several times a day, every day, for the rest of your life! — Gary Yourofsky

This can vary massively depending on what I’m training for, but I can consume anywhere from 4,500 to 8,000 calories per day. — Martyn Ford

Vegan diet quote The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for steak to coo.
The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for steak to coo.

My biggest weakness is steak. I have to be careful not to eat too much of it these days – but I do love it done medium rare, with peppercorn sauce. — Harry Kane

This is a message to all those out there who think that you need animal products to be fit and strong. Almost two years after becoming vegan I am stronger than ever before and I am still improving day by day. — Patrik Baboumian

One day the world will look upon research upon animals as it now looks upon research on human beings. — Leonardo da Vinci

I'm a vegan, but you can be really unhealthy as a vegan, too. Vegan just means that you don't use animal products, so you don't wear leather, you don't wear wool, and you don't eat animal products. But you can eat french fries and stuff like that all day long. — Emily Deschanel

Vegan Health Quotes

People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food. — Wendell Berry

I don't have any understanding of a human being who doesn't respect the beauty of life and that goes for all creatures that have thoughts, feelings and needs. — Alicia Silverstone

Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind. — Albert Einstein

Vegan diet quote Your diet is a bank account, good food choice are good investments.
Your diet is a bank account, good food choice are good investments.

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. — Linda McCartney

The meat industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars lying to the public about their product. But no amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat. The facts are absolutely clear: Eating meat is bad for human health, catastrophic for the environment, and a living nightmare for animals — Chrissie Hynde

Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story. — Mary Tyler Moore

Vegan diet quote I try to stick to a vegan diet heavy on fruit and vegetables.
I try to stick to a vegan diet heavy on fruit and vegetables.

We all love animals. Why do we call some 'pets' and others 'dinner?' — K. D. Lang

It takes nothing away from a human to be kind to an animal. — Joaquin Phoenix

If you visit the killing floor of a slaughterhouse, it will brand your soul for life. — Howard Lyman

In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

Vegan Food Quotes

Vegan food is soul food in its truest form. Soul food means to feed the soul. And, to me, your soul is your intent. If your intent is pure, you are pure. — Erykah Badu

In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do. — Cesar Chavez

When you're vegan, you spend your time chasing protein, and you're eating food that's way too high in carbs. I could never catch up on protein. — Rick Rubin

Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal. — Ingrid Newkirk

I haven't bought any leather articles for a very long time. My ideal is to be able to avoid all animal products, in food as well as clothing. — Martina Navratilova

So nothing fancy, maybe simple stuff… we’re missing regular, normal Earth food. — Sergei Krikalev

If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat — Steven Wright

I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals. — Henry David Thoreau

The standard four food groups are based on American agricultural lobbies. Why do we have a milk group? Because we have a National Dairy Council. Why do we have a meat group? Because we have an extremely powerful meat lobby. — Marion Nestle

Absolutely fell in love with the idea and the power that the training and food has and can have over your life. — Martyn Ford

Vegan Quotes

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything. — Albert Einstein

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man. — Charles Darwin

Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. — Mark Twain

Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy. — Albert Schweitzer

Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another! — Pythagoras

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world. — Paul Farmer

We torture and kill two billion sentient living beings every week. 10,000 entire species are wiped out every year because of the actions of one, and we are now facing the sixth mass extinction in cosmological history. If any other organism did this, a biologist would consider them a virus. — Philip Wollen

Animals can't really voice their opinion. We feel as though we can be on of the spokespeople on their behalf. — River Phoenix

Basically, the reason I'm vegan is because when I was about 16 or 17 years old, I began to understand that we don't need to contribute to the killing and exploitation of animals to feed our bodies correctly. — Daniel Johns

I think 'vegan' is a beautiful word. It is more than just a description for our diet. I see it as a visible template for an ethical, healthy, responsible, and rational life. Because it describes our character, it says we do not take the life of another living being to satisfy our wants. — Philip Wollen

Vegetarian Diet Quotes

Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better. — Nicholas Stern

Eating a vegetarian diet, walking (exercising) everyday, and meditating is considered radical. Allowing someone to slice your chest open and graft your leg veins in your heart is considered normal and conservative. — Dean Ornish

What you eat don’t make me sh*t. That might work for you, that don’t mean it’s going to work for me. — 21 Savage

I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open and put them on cholesterol lowering drugs for the rest of their lives. — Dean Ornish

I didn’t invent the Taco, but I believe I improved it. — Glen Bell

Over the past 6 months, I have been playing around with my macros, and I’m really starting to see what works for me. — Martyn Ford

Veganism isn’t just a strict vegetarian diet; it is a complete philosophical viewpoint. It is practical in outlook, simple to understand and aspires to the highest environmental and spiritual values. I am sure it holds the key to a future lifestyle for a humane planetary guardianship. — Howard Lyman

I’m a huge foodie, but I’m also very conscious about what I put in my body. — Hannah Bronfman

Bananas are the base of all my smoothies! They are packed with potassium and give a solid base flavor. — Hannah Bronfman

The world's strongest animals are plant eaters. Gorillas, Buffaloes, Elephants and me. — Patrik Baboumian

Vegetarian Health Quotes

You can't make people change, but the organizers of WorldFest hope that people consider being vegetarian for both moral and health reasons — Grace Slick

Children who grow up getting nutrition from plant foods rather than meats have a tremendous health advantage. They are less likely to develop weight problems, diabetes, high blood pressure and some forms of cancer — Benjamin Spock

We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet- for the sake of hamburgers — Peter Singer

When people ask me why I don't eat meat or any other animal products, I say, 'Because they are unhealthy and they are the product of a violent and inhumane industry.' — Casey Affleck

If you could see or feel the suffering you wouldn't think twice. Give back life. Don't eat meat. — Kim Basinger

Men hunt I think maybe because they have something wrong with their own equipment and they need something else to shoot. — Pamela Anderson

The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds. — Plato

If a kid ever realized what was involved in factory farming, they would never touch meat again. — James Cromwell

If you step back and look at the data, the optimum amount of red meat you eat should be zero. — Walter Willett

Nobody really needs a mink coat... Except the mink. — Glenda Jackson

Plant Based Diet Quotes

Some people think plant-based diet, 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

The human fasting mimicking diet FMD program is a plant based diet program designed to attain fasting-like effects while providing micronutrient nourishment vitamins, minerals, etc. and minimize the burden of fasting. — Valter Longo

I can state with full confidence that an alkaline-promoting, whole-food plant-based diet is the most rapid recovery tool available to the athlete, a buffer against weight gain and lifestyle disease, as well as a crucial component in my success. — Rich Roll

Let’s start with the most prominent ecological crisis of our time: global warming. When you look seriously at the numbers, you find that switching from a meat-based to a plant-based diet would do more to curb and reverse global warming than any other initiative. — T. Colin Campbell

Whether the patient has a cardiac condition, hypertension, autoimmune disease, fibroids, or asthma, he or she must be informed that fasting and natural, plant-based diets are a viable alternative to conventional therapy, and an effective one. — Joel Fuhrman

A plant-based diet has actually simplified my life in so many ways. For breakfast, I try to get my first serving of fruits and nuts for fuel. I'm completely addicted to coconut water for the electrolytes and hydration. — Michelle Forbes

The future is about a plant-based diet. — Jamie Oliver

Flesh isn't the only source of protein. You can get all the protein you need from a varied plant-based diet. Protein is found in greens, veggies, beans, grains, nuts & seeds, avocados and so on. And there is no need to consume these foods in any special combination. — Sharon Gannon

You can't be an environmentalist, you can't be an ocean steward without truly walking the walk and you can't walk the walk in the world of the future, the world ahead of us, the world of our children, not eating a plant-based diet. — James Cameron

Though I'm vegan and advocate that others eat a plant-based diet, I know that many people aren't quite ready to take that step in whole. — Kathy Freston

Healthy Diet Quotes

Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means. - Maimonides

Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means. — Maimonides

I keep my diet simple by sticking to mostly fruits and vegetables all day and then having whatever I want for dinner. I end up making healthy choices, like sushi or grilled fish, because I feel so good from eating well. — Sayings

Eating a low-carb, high-fat diet can help support healthy blood sugar levels and weight management. — Steven Gundry

Healthy fats are not the enemy, they are an essential part of a balanced diet. — Steven Gundry

A healthy diet is the foundation of good health, but it’s not the only piece of the puzzle. —

Eating a diet rich in whole, nutrient-dense foods can help support healthy aging and longevity. — Steven Gundry

The most important thing to remember about food labels is that you should avoid foods that have labels. — Joel Fuhrman

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld

When a woman is fit and healthy, everything else falls into place. We are conditioned to put others first, that 'burnt chop syndrome' we observed in our mothers. It takes discipline to pay attention to our diets, to exercise, to leave time for refreshment of mind, body and spirit. — Quentin Bryce

Cakes are healthy too, you just eat a small slice. — Mary Berry

Vegetarianism Quotes

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian. — Dennis Wholey

I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings. — Cesar Chavez

Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. — Thomas Jefferson

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian. - Paul McCartney

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian. — Paul McCartney

Only fools argue whether to eat meat or not. They don't understand truth nor do they meditate on it. Who can define what is meat and what is plant Who knows where the sin lies, being a vegetarian or a non vegetarian — Guru Nanak

I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain. — Thomas A. Edison

My wife actually got worried about my drinking so much regular milk, you know, so she got me into rice milk and now soy milk, which I greatly enjoy. A soy mocha's a fine thing. — Willie Nelson

My biggest dream in the world is for everyone to become vegetarian, so there won't be any more suffering. — Alicia Silverstone

I also became a vegetarian when I was 14 because I realized eating animals was cruel. — Julia Hill

Taking all vegetable-eating nations together . . . they are a larger and much better formed race than the flesh eaters. — Sylvester Graham

Vegetarian Food Quotes

There's no doubt in my mind that going vegetarian has made me feel better not only physically, but also because I learned about the suffering of animals who are raised and killed for food. I feel good knowing that I'm not contributing to that. — Sophie Monk

A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed. — Mary Tyler Moore

If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food, because ...its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling - killing. — Leo Tolstoy

Haggis is delicious. It is wonderful. It's spicy, it's tasty, and you get vegetarian haggis as well. — Nicola Sturgeon

It’s better to eat salty food and speak the truth than to eat vegetarian and tell lies. — Vietnamese Proverbs

Vegetarians have wicked, shifty eyes, and laugh in a cold calculating manner. They pinch little children, steal stamps, drink water, favor beards. — J. B. Morton

I'm not a vegetarian! I'm a dessertarian! — Bill Watterson

I did not climb to the top of the food chain to eat carrots. — Ron White

Having the USDA design your food pyramid is like having Al Capone do your taxes. — Caldwell Esselstyn

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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More Vegan Diet Quotes

I just can't get enough of the machinating and arguing about this supplement versus that supplement ... You shouldn't be having those arguments until you have your exercise house in order. You shouldn't be arguing about this nuance of your carnivore diet versus this nuance of your paleo diet versus this nuance of your vegan diet until you can deadlift your body weight for 10 reps. — Peter Attia

Knowing thousands of recipes doesn’t feed you, unless you start cooking. — Leo Babauta

Eating well and staying active is the necessary base to a clear complexion and a healthy body and mind. — Hannah Bronfman

I got into being vegan because I was simply looking to benefit from being more compassionate. I have since come to learn that it is an animal-based diet that is responsible for the overwhelming majority of cases of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, multiple sclerosis, and all kinds of other problems. — Steve-O

People feel poorly because they are nourished by foods you wouldn't feed to your dog and cat. The rich western diet is full of fat, sugar, cholesterol, salt, animal protein - all the wrong foods for people. — John A. McDougall

I used to bulk and cut, but never to extremes. I have always been more into what my body can do versus how it looks. — Martyn Ford

Adding chlorella and chlorophyll to your smoothie gives you the benefits of leafy greens in their most raw form. — Hannah Bronfman

Almond milk is a great source of omega fatty acids and fiber without being high in fat. — Hannah Bronfman

I became a vegetarian out of compassion for animals and to live as healthy as possible. I realized soon after that I was truly concerned with nonviolent consumption and my own health, a vegan diet was the best decision. — Davey Havok

Cinnamon is a super-food that lowers cholesterol and is anti-cancerous. — Hannah Bronfman

I realized what goes on in the egg industry and the dairy industry, so then I was like, ‘That’s it! Going vegan!’ and I just kind of went cold turkey, basically. — Sadie Sink

I think there’s this misconception about vegans, that it’s impossible, and they’re crazy or whatever. But it’s not like that. You can be vegan and still be really chill. — Sadie Sink

I remember the first thing I ever tried was the ‘eating food for your blood type’ diet. It didn’t work for me. It left me fatigued and constantly tired. — Hannah Bronfman

I’ve always liked home-cooked meals. — Kawhi Leonard

When I’m on tour, I’m in really good shape. When I get home, I cook, I eat, I get fat and happy. — Pink

FitLife.tv’s problem wasn’t a traffic or conversion problem. It rarely is. More often than not, it’s a FUNNEL problem. — Russell Brunson

Your choice of diet can influence your long term health prospects more than any other action you might take. — C. Everett Koop

Although man has included meat in his diet for thousands of years, his anatomy and physiology, and the chemistry of his digestive juices, are still unmistakably those of a frugivorous animal. — Herbert M. Shelton

My body will not be a tomb for other creatures. — Leonardo da Vinci

We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do. — Rabindranath Tagore

I've found that a person does not need protein from meat to be a successful athlete. In fact, my best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet. — Carl Lewis

The vegan diet is obviously lacking whatever essential nutrient it is that makes people likeable. — Jim Goad

A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do. But you'll also want to minimize the use of oils generally, because while olive oil and other vegetable oils are better for your heart than chicken fat, they are as fattening as animal fats. — Neal Barnard

I love animals. All animals. I wouldn't hurt a cat or a dog — or a chicken, or a cow. And I wouldn't ask someone else to hurt them for me. That's why I'm a vegetarian. — Peter Dinklage

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