2 posts tagged “vegetarianism”
"Government officials now know what the most healthful diet is, and yet will not recommend it." -Erik Marcus
The China Project is called by The New York Times "the most comprehensive study ever undertaken of the relationship between diet and the risk of developing disease." Director Dr. T. Colin Campbell, professor of nutrition and biomedical science at Cornell University summarized the findings: "The China Project's primary finding is that the Chinese who eat the least fat and animal products [this includes diary!] have substantially lower rates of cancer, heart attack, and several other chronic degenerative diseases."
"The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another, even the lowliest creature; to do so is to renounce our manhood and shoulder a guilt which nothing justifies." -Albert Schweitzer
"If man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is injury to animals." -Leo Tolstoy
"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." -Mohandas Gandhi
"People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous." -Richard Gere
"Compassion is the foundation of everything positive, everything good. If you carry the power of compassion to the marketplace and the dinner table, you can make your life really count." -Rue McClanahan
"If man is not to stifle his human feelings, he must practice kindness toward animals, for he who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals." -Immanuel Kant
"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." -Henry David Thoreau
"It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed. It was once considered foolish to suppose that black men were really human beings and ought to be treated as such. What was once foolish has now become a recognized truth. Today it is considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form of life as being the serious demand of a rational ethic. But the time is coming when people will be amazed that the human race existed so long before it recognized that thoughtless injury to life is incompatible with real ethics. Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life." -Albert Schweitzer
"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." -Albert Einstein
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