So bacon tastes good, but is ignorance better? Here’s some food for thought in the form of ten quotes by vegetarian artists, activists and authors.
1. “Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It’s because they know what it’s like to be treated like an animal.” ― Chuck Palahniuk
2. “Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal.” ― Ingrid Newkirk
3. The proof is in the picture:
4. “In fact, if one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be cruelty, but where a lot of people are unkind to animals, especially in the name of commerce, the cruelty is condoned and, once large sums of money are at stake, will be defended to the last by otherwise intelligent people.”― Ruth Harrison
5. “You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
6. “With lentils, tomatoes and rice, olives and nuts and bread, why does a man care to gnaw a slice of something bleeding and dead?”― Henry Bailey Stevens
7. “Could you look an animal in the eyes and say to it, ‘My appetite is more important than your suffering’?” ― Moby
8. “My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.” –Leonardo Da Vinci
9. “To my mind the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to the protection by man from the cruelty of man.”― Mahatma Ghandi
