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
Tremendous Vegan Food quotations
Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature.
If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind.
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.
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
In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do.
Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal.
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.
If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat
I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
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.
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.
Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans .
.. are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.
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.
I think if you want to eat more meat you should kill it yourself and eat it raw so that you are not blinded by the hypocrisy of having it processed for you.
The more red meat and blood we eat, the more bloodthirsty we get, the more violent we get. The more vegetarian food we eat, the more peace is taken into us.
Everything in food works together to create health or disease.
The more we think that a single chemical characterizes a whole food, the more we stray into idiocy.
A human can be healthy without killing animals for food.
Your choice of diet can influence your long term health prospects more than any other action you might take.
When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.
Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions.
Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness.
We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do.
Until a vegan or vegetarian enters the room, people don't see themselves as meat-eaters. They are merely 'eaters', and it is we vegans who have made them aware of what they are doing. Often this is discomforting.
In my experience of vegan food it tends to be a symphony of beige.
I'm a big health-food freak and a vegetarian devotee.
Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.
Man is the only animal that can be bored.
There's so many vegetarian foods now that are available at the market .
The same with drive-throughs. Now, a lot of them serve veggie burgers just like the restaurants are doing. So, it's really very easy.
Starvation does not occur because of a world food shortage.
If everyone ate a vegetarian, or better still, a vegan diet there would be enough food for everyone. The only sane way forward is to grow food for humans rather than to feed it to farmed animals.
McDonald's announced that it's considering a more humane way of slaughtering its animals. You know they fatten them up and then kill them. You know the same thing they do to their customers, isn't it?
Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.
Nothing spoils lunch any quicker than a rogue meatball rampaging through your spaghetti.
The primary benefit of a vegan diet is that the removal of animal products usually necessitates a higher amount of nutrient-rich plant produce. The cons of a vegan diet could be the inclusion of too much heavily processed food, including seitan and isolated soy protein, flour, sweeteners and oils.
How can you eat anything with eyes?
Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food
Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.
