Vegetarian quotes

A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children.

As a vegan, I think people who sell meat are disgusting; but apparently people who sell fruit and veg are grocer.

By eating meat we share the responsibility of climate change, the destruction of our forests, and the poisoning of our air and water. The simple act of becoming a vegetarian will make a difference in the health of our planet.

Did you know that when you eat a healthier diet, consider more vegetarian options, and don't waste food, you're helping end world hunger.

Eating vegetarian doesn’t mean you have to eat boring, humdrum dishes.

Economy forced me to become a vegetarian, but I finally started liking it.

Even as a junkie I stayed true to vegetarianism – ‘I shall have heroin, but I shan’t have a hamburger.’ What a sexy little paradox.

Every time sitting at a dining table, we make a choice. Please choose vegetarianism. Do it for the animals. Do it for the environment and for the sake of your own health.

I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I'm not judgmental. And I'm a vegetarian.

I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do.

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.

I call myself a vegetarian with vegan tendencies.

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

I do not say that one who is vegetarian is full of compassion and one who is not, is otherwise. We sometimes find people, who are vegetarians, are very bad people.

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.

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, we’d all be vegetarian.

It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.

Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them, the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.

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.

My mother taught me a lot about respect for all living things – for plants and animals. I am a vegetarian. I was brought up that way.

My own view is that being a vegetarian or vegan is not an end in itself, but a means towards reducing both human and animal suffering and leaving a habitable planet to future generations.

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.

Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

One of the most powerful ways to make a difference is to become a vegetarian, which helps save animals, helps the ecology of the planet and can improve your health.

Part of my becoming a vegetarian was that I would look at my burger, then look at my dogs, and I wasn’t able to see a difference.

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.

The heart of vegetarians is healed sooner than those of flesh-eaters.

The vegetarian movement is an ancient movement and is not quite a modern one.

To be a vegetarian is to disagree...to disagree with the course of things today. Starvation, world hunger, cruelty, waste and, wars. We must make a statement against these things. Vegetarianism is my statement.

To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.

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.

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.

Vegetarianism is a way of living consciously on the planet.