Celebrity Endorsement

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.
- Gandhi

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

He who does not value life does not deserve it. . . Endless numbers of these animals shall have their little children taken from them, ripped open, and barbarously slaughtered.
- Leonardo Da Vinci

Let the advocate of animal food force himself to a decisive experiment on its fitness, and as Plutarch recommends, tear a living lamb with his teeth and, plunging his head into its vitals, slake his thirst with the steaming blood. . . then, and only then, would he be consistent.
- Shelley

. . . simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to moral feeling - killing. . . man suppresses in himself, unnecessarily, the highest spiritual capacity - that of sympathy and pity towards living creatures like himself - and violating his own feelings becomes cruel.
- Leo Tolstoy

If you declare that you are naturally designed for such a diet, then first kill for yourself what you want to eat. Do it, however, only through your own resources, unaided by cleaver or cudgel or any kind of axe.
- Plutarch

I hold flesh food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.
- Gandhi

We pray on Sundays that we may have light
To guide our footsteps on the path we tread;
We are sick of war, we don't want to fight,
And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.
- George Bernard Shaw

In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses. And in a population that is all educated, and at about the same level of physical refinement, it is practically impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead pig ox or pig. . . I can still remember as a boy the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughterhouse
- H G Wells, A Modern Utopia

We are all God's creatures - that we pray to God for mercy and justice while we continue to eat the flesh of animals that are slaughtered on our account is not consistent.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer

. . . no longer now
He slays the lamb that looks him in the face,
And horribly devours his mangled flesh,
Which, still avenging Nature's broken law,
Kindled all putrid humors in his frame,
All evil passions, and all vain belief,
Hatred, despair, and loathing in his mind,
The germs of misery, death, disease and crime.
- Shelley, Queen Mab