Eating a vegetarian diet can contribute more to saving ourselves and the planet than any other single effort. — Sharon Gannon
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
Vegetarianism is a way of living consciously on the planet. — Amy Smart
A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do. — Neal Barnard
Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind. — Albert Einstein
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
When we eat vegetarian foods, we needn't worry about what kind of disease our food died from; this makes a joyful meal! — John Harvey Kellogg
The closer you can live to being a vegetarian the better. — Gary Player
I am vegetarian, though, and so is my family. — Joely Fisher
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
I try to stick to a vegan diet heavy on fruit and vegetables. — Clint Eastwood
I am proud to be a vegetarian and I am against those who eat meat. Go green to be fit, that's the best way for me at least. — Kareena Kapoor
A human can be healthy without killing animals for food. — Leo Tolstoy
Good Viking genes, being vegetarian and having rowdy dogs and kids definitely keep me in shape. Not eating meat gives me the energy I need to keep up with work, family and travel - I'm very active. — Sayings
Explore the secrets of longevity in the Blue Zones and beyond! Turns out, it's not just about beans, rice, or grains. It's the low animal protein diet that truly sets them apart. — Steven Gundry
Short Vegetarian Diet Quotes
A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children. — David Brenner
Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak. — Ted Nugent
To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana. — Buddha
Vegetarians are hotter then meat eaters. — Oliver Sykes
Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world. — Dan Buettner
If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat — Steven Wright
My best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet. — Carl Lewis
I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat. — Lasse Hallstrom
The six best doctors: Sunshine, water, rest, air, exercise and diet.
Vegetarian Meal Quotes
Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies...that which to us is merely an evening's meal, but to them is life itself. — T. Casey Brennan
The steam of meat darkens the light of the spirit...One hardly can have virtue when one enjoys meat meals and feasts. — Saint Basil
I’ve always liked home-cooked meals. — Kawhi Leonard
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.
The easiest beneficence is a smile. The simplest release is to have a vegetarian meal. — Buddha
I've been vegetarian for so long now that I don't remember anything different, so it's easy for me to put meals together and make sure my family is eating healthy, too. — Christina Applegate
A pacifist between wars is like a vegetarian between meals. — Ammon Hennacy
The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for steak to coo.
Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals. — Colman McCarthy
My diet plan. 8am to 12noon: only fruits and fruit juice. Noon to 8pm: vegetarian meals. From 8pm to 8am the kitchen is CLOSED. — Bradford Winters
How self-centered, how arrogant... Imagine the awesome privilege of living in a society where you get to choose what you eat at each and every meal. When I was a kid, I was a vegetarian and a vegan for long stretches... I was a commodity cheese-atarian. — Sherman Alexie
If your meals consistently revolve around corpse multiple times daily, you might become one sooner than you planned. — Kris Carr
Vegetarian 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
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
I can't think of anything better in the world to be but a vegan. — Alicia Silverstone
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
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
Your diet is a bank account, good food choice are good investments.
Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story. — Mary Tyler Moore
We all love animals. Why do we call some 'pets' and others 'dinner?' — K. D. Lang
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
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
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
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 try to stick to a vegan diet heavy on fruit and vegetables.
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
Vegetarian Food Quotes
Taking all vegetable-eating nations together . . . they are a larger and much better formed race than the flesh eaters. — Sylvester Graham
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
In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do. — Cesar Chavez
Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal. — Ingrid Newkirk
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
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
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
So nothing fancy, maybe simple stuff… we’re missing regular, normal Earth food. — Sergei Krikalev
Haggis is delicious. It is wonderful. It's spicy, it's tasty, and you get vegetarian haggis as well. — Nicola Sturgeon
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
Vegetarian Quotes
Animals can't really voice their opinion. We feel as though we can be on of the spokespeople on their behalf. — River Phoenix
Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own. — Robert Louis Stevenson
In fact, vegetarians have been reported to have more circulating AGEs than people who eat meat. — Max Lugavere
If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth - beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals - would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals? — George Bernard Shaw
Cruelty to animals can become violence to humans. — Ali MacGraw
Becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species. — Chris Hedges
In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt. — Alberto Giacometti
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
Nutrition has always played a huge role in my life. I became a vegetarian when I was 13 and then got my entire family to become vegetarians. And I have always been active my whole life. I genuinely enjoy sports and I spend time on my total gym. — Christie Brinkley
My refusing to eat meat occasioned inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension. — Benjamin Franklin
Vegan Diet Quotes
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
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
Cakes are healthy too, you just eat a small slice. — Mary Berry
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
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
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
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
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
Absolutely fell in love with the idea and the power that the training and food has and can have over your life. — Martyn Ford
Being Vegetarian Quotes
I know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten, and who never has a chance to be a real being, is unhealthy. It's like...you're just eating misery. You're eating a bitter life. — Alice Walker
All breathing beings are spiritual; this includes everyone who breathes, whether they are animals or humans, carnivores or vegetarians. — Sharon Gannon
It almost seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore. — Albert Einstein
The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds. — Plato
If you step back and look at the data, the optimum amount of red meat you eat should be zero. — Walter Willett
I've always been an animal lover. People should be made aware of all the issues. Some people think that the whole wearing-fur thing is glamorous, but you can look good without it. — Sadie Frost
Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it. — Doris Day
Being vegan helped me realize I can say and do what I believe is right. That's powerful. — Alicia Silverstone
'Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai. — Leo Tolstoy
You know, we all oppose animal cruelty. But sometimes we forget that animals on farms suffer and feel pain like all other animals. They, too, deserve to be protected from harm and cruelty. — Charlotte Ross
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
The world's strongest animals are plant eaters. Gorillas, Buffaloes, Elephants and me. — Patrik Baboumian
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
Vegetable Quotes
Of course you know the miracle of AIDS, we all do. It's the only disease that turns fruits into vegetables. — David Duke
Hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun, and with him rise weeping. — William Shakespeare
Don't be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for Justice. Viva the boycott! — Dolores Huerta
We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables — the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers — to maintain their identity. You appreciate differences. — Jane Elliott
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
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. — Mark Twain
An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh. — Will Rogers
Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie. — Jim Davis
Eat your vegetables, have a positive outlook, be kind to people, and smile. — Dan Buettner
Approximately 80 % of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources. — Ronald Reagan
Healthy Diet Quotes
Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means. — Maimonides
Eating a low-carb, high-fat diet can help support healthy blood sugar levels and weight management. — Steven Gundry
The best diet is one you don't realise you're following. — Chris Williamson
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
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
And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet. — Julie Bishop
Some cultures ate nothing but meat, while others were mostly vegetarian. Some relied primarily on homemade cheese; others consumed no dairy at all. Their teeth were almost always perfect; their mouths were exceptionally wide, nasal apertures broad. They suffered few, if any, cavities and little dental disease. — James Nestor
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
An important fact to remember is that all natural diets, including purely vegetarian diets without a hint of dairy products, contain amounts of calcium that are above the treshold for meeting your nutritional needs....In fact,calcium deficiency caused by an insufficient amount if calcium in the diet is not known to occur in humans. — John A. McDougall
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
There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet, and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly tried. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
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
A diet rich in fruits and vegetables plays a role in reducing the risk of all the major causes of illness and death — Walter Willett
Vegetarians always ask about getting enough protein. But I don't know any nutrition expert (who) can plan a diet of natural foods resulting in a protein deficiency, so long as you're not deficient in calories. You need only 5 or 6 percent of total calories in protein... and it is pratically impossible to get below 9 percent in ordinary diets. — Nathan Pritikin
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
We are the living graves of murdered beasts. — George Bernard Shaw
What every human being should do is eat a vegetarian diet based on whole foods. Period. That's it. Animal protein is bad for you. Dairy is bad for you. Forget the ads: Milk and eggs are bad for you. — Roger Ebert
People think of animals as if they were vegetables, and that is not right. We have to change the way people think about animals. I encourage the Tibetan people and all people to move toward a vegetarian diet that doesn’t cause suffering. — Dalai Lama
Some people are still going to want to eat meat. We do agree though that vegetarianism is a healthier diet. — Dave Stroud
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. — Jeremy Rifkin
We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead. — George Bernard Shaw
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