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"Linda McCartney sausages were my favorite. They’re much better than eating real sausages and you don’t have to contemplate half way through exactly what s inside them. ... You can have them, a bit of fried bread, tinned tomatoes. Delicious. " – Simon Cowell
# But why do you want to eat veggie sausages! In your heart you are a pig eater.
"I never really liked meat. I was a child that had to be forced to eat my meat. Whatever you ate before [going vegetarian] that you loved—like turkey slices—they've got a substitute now that's not hard to find." – Masta Killa, from Wu-Tang Clan
# Why not forsake the taste for animals
# God Bless You !
"If you could feel or see the suffering, you wouldn't think twice. Give back life. Don't eat meat." – Kim Basinger
# Of course ~ Learn from Indians with a vast tradition of vegetarianism as a part of their religion.
"I am a very strict vegetarian. ...I just really, really love animals, and I act on my values." – Natalie Portman
# It is honourable Natalie ~ N
"The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. If beef is your idea of `real food for real people,' you'd better live real close to a real good hospital." – Neal Barnard, M. D
# Yes True Neal ~ Evil beef ~ N
"Chickens raised for food today are … covered in excrement, they're diseased, and they're drugged up with all sorts of toxins that you are ingesting if you eat chickens. One recent study found that chicken flesh in this country has four times as much arsenic—yes, arsenic, the poison (which is used in the drugs the chickens are given) as any other meat … I have been a vegan for many years." –
# Yes good Russel ~ Be Blessed ~ N
"I am a vegan now, and it was a conscious decision. I studied a lot about African culture and health and the best way to take care of the body. … I really wanted to be healthy. I found out a lot about the body and what drugs they put in meat. My taste buds started changing, and I didn't crave meat and dairy products anymore" – Brandy
# Become Vegetarian for meta-moral reasons please ~ N
"I think there's something odd about eating another living anything." – Shania Twain
# It is a sin Shania to kill and eat animals~ N
"I don't eat meat, fish, or eggs. I was never a big meat-eater, but I've got more energy now. I eat a lot of tofu, and I drink soy shakes with fruit every morning. I always have soybeans, black beans, or chickpeas for lunch or dinner" – Shania Twain
# Admirable ~ Let it last ! ~ N
"I try to stick to a vegan diet—heavy on fruit, vegetables, tofu, and other soy products." – Clint Eastwood
# I see occassionally eat beef burgher too~ moron ! ~ N "It was a lot easier for me to lose the weight rather than putting it back on when I had to start shooting Spider-Man 2 because I'm a vegetarian, and it feels uncomfortable if you feel you're eating too much." –
# That is not a good enough reason to be vegetarian mr. spider man ! ~ It may be necessary to see one will go to hell for the sin of killing and eating animals. "I stopped eating meat about six years ago, when I was working on the movie Selena. During the shoot, I had to hold a chicken for five hours—if you hold it and feel its little heart beating for hours, you just can't think about eating it." –
# It is admirable learning ~
"It may take a while, but there will probably come a time when we look back and say, ‘Good Lord, do you believe that in the 20th century and early part of the 21st, people were still eating animals?'." – Mary Tyler Moore
# Surely Mary ~
" Man came before the axe and fire so he couldn't be carnivorous.The length of mans digestive tube is 5-8 meters and the distance between the mouth and the coccyx is 50 to 80 centimetres, which gives us a result of 10 as in other frugivorous animals and not 3 as in the carnivorous or 20 as in the herbivorous animals. The only animal with probable omnivorous morphology that exists, is the bear, which has some pointed teeth and others that are flat." - Thomas Henry Huxley
# But these reasons are secondary ~ It is sin to kill ~ N
"It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation, that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion; and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust." - Percy Bysshe Shelley
# Yes eat raw meat with blood ! It will be very tasty ~ N
"The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men." - Leonardo da Vinci (Quote invented by Dimitri Merejovski in a novel)
# That is ancient Indian Way Leonardo !
"You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
# Watch animal slaughter and eat animals immediately ~ N "Thousands of people who say they 'love' animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been utterly deprived of everything that could make their lives worth living and who endured the awful suffering and the terror of the abattoirs." - Jane Goodall
# Alas ! ~ N
"I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily." - Marguerite Yourcenar # Yes ~ "Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." - Albert Einstein
# We Indians many of them are more evolved ! ~ N "I do feel that spiritual progress does demand, at some stage, that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants." - # Of Course Gandhiji ~ N
"To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana." - Buddha. # Om Namo Maitreya Buddhaaya ~ N
"Auschwitz begins whenever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they're only animals." - Theodor Adorno
# Yes ~ That is what white man thought of the browns and blacks too~
"Meat is for beasts to feed on." - Ovid
# True Ovid !
"Now I can look at you in peace; I don`t eat you any more." - Franz Kafka
# Dear Franz how can you eat an animal In this seamless Trial ~ N
"Thousands of people who say they 'love' animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been utterly deprived of everything that could make their lives worth living and who endured the awful suffering and the terror of the abattoirs."- Jane Goodall
# Yes Jane ~ Teach them humanity ~ N "Answer me, machinist, has nature arranged all the means of feeling in this animal, so that it may not feel? has it nerves in order to be impassible? Do not suppose this impertinent contradiction in nature." - Voltaire
# Of course Voltaire ~ Does Pangloss eat cows ? ~ N
"You can't tear flesh by hand, you can't tear hide by hand. Our anterior teeth are not suited for tearing flesh or hide. We don't have large canine teeth, and we wouldn't have been able to deal with food sources that require those large canines" – Dr. Richard Leakey
# Such medical justification is not wanted ~ It is human to be vegetarian ~
"Cruelty is cruelty, whether it’s cruelty to children, to the elderly, to dogs and cats, or to chickens." - Russell Simmons
# Of Course Russell ~ " It seems obvious to me that a Christ-child who is depicted in the scriptures as being born in the stable, surrounded by animals, is not meant to be the figurehead of a Great Slaughter and a feast of gluttony and self indulgence. " – Lady Dowding
# Of Course Lady Dowding ! You are a true Christian ~ N
"Yes, I am a vegetarian. I find the thought of stuffing fragments of corpses down my throat quite repulsive, and I am amazed that so many people do it every day. " - J. M. Coetzee
# There are ,many traditions in India that a vegetarians ~
"Have you just started that meal or are you just finishing it?" - Winston Churchill to vegetarian cabinet minister Sir Stafford Cripps as they ate a meal together.
# Winston I won't dine with you ~ You are a mlecha who eats cows ~ ! N "The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men." - Alice Walker.
# Very true Alice !
"If you can justify killing to eat meat, you can justify the conditions of the ghetto. I cannot justify either one." - Dick Gregory.
# Nor can I Mr. Dick Gregory ~
"Once people spend time with farm animals in a loving way ... a pig or cow or a little chicken or a turkey, they might find they relate with them the same way they relate with dogs and cats. People don't really think of them that way because they're on the plate. Why should they be food when other animals are pets? I would never eat my doggies." - Alicia Silverstone
# Of course you should love the divine cows like you love your doggies and catties ~ It may be observed vegetarian animals are most eaten ~ N
"I'm on a vegan diet, I do yoga every day, I work out, I'm totally spiritual ..." -Avril Lavigne
# Be Blessed Avril ~
"There is no doubt, that man is not built to be a carnivorous animal. What a sweet, pleasing and innocent sight is the spectacle of a table served that way and what a difference to a make up of fuming animal meat, slaughtered and dead! Man in no way has the constitution of a carnivorous being. Hunt and voracity are unnatural to him. Man has neither the sharp pointed teeth or claws to slaughter his prey. On the contrary his hands are made to pick fruits, berries and vegetables and teeth appropriate to chew them." – John Ray
# Eating animals is evil ~ There is no need of A darwinian justification ~ N
"Man could live on vegetables alone. However the whole of nature is not enough to satisfy his intemperance and the inconsistent variety of his appetite. Man by himself consumes and devours more meat than all the other animals together and not out of necessity but as a form of abuse. " – Count Buffon
# Man is a sinful animal ~ The fallen being ! Let us hope we reach the Apocalypse ~ N
"Eating animals as food is not far away from anthropophagy and cannibalism. The same amount of land used to graze and feed cattle could feed ten people, if however we cultivated it with lentils, kidney beans or peas it could feed a hundred people....The Orinoco basin can produce sufficient bananas to feed the whole of mankind comfortably. " – Alexander von Humbold
# It is cannibalism ~ N
"If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian." - Paul McCartney
# Of course Paul ~
"People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times." - Isaac Bashevis Singer
# The many glorious Indian traditions are against slaughter and eating of animals ~ N
"Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends." - George Bernard Shaw
# Admirable JBS ~ N
"If you have men who will exclude any of god's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men." - St. Francis of Assisi
# All God's creatures must be included ~ N
"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
# How very admirable Leo Tolstoy living among perpetual cow eaters to feel this !
"No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does." - Henry David Thoreau
# The Indians are more civilized because many of them don't kill and eat animals ~ N
"The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable." - Thomas More
# It Is Hindu Indian Buddhist and Jain which preached compassion! ~ N
"Those who believe that the slaughtering of animal for food and goods are flawed in their thinking. That is, the belief that the natural order, the order that animals eat animals, is immoral in anyway is a justification of the lifestyle and opinions of another." - Jared Miller, research on human nature.
# Of course it is a sin to practise killing and eating animals ~
"If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?" - John Cleese
# John you can ask that about man too ~ You are a cannibal moron ~ N