277 Quotes About Veganism

You would be enraged if after attending a barbeque at a neighbors your host said he had served you a Beagle Burger. How is a dog different than a cow?

Because most of us are shielded (or shield ourselves) from the unpleasant realities associated with the routine use of animals, we can maintain a view of ourselves as animal lovers by being kind to the few living animals we personally encounter.

I will never again allow my culinary convenience to balance upon the corpses of innocent members of our moral community whose eyes I never had to look into but saw more pain then I will ever be capable of imagining so that I could eat a pizza topping

I am not suggesting we should be skeptical of the notion that life can get a lot better. Yet this should not be confused with the question of whether any better state we can reasonably expect to bring about — such as a much happier state — can ever morally outweigh all the suffering its creation would entail, including the (risk of) extreme suffering.

Our efforts to protect primates will be much more effective if we dismantle the artificial line that we have created between ourselves and other animals.

The number of individuals enslaved and slaughtered on factory farms every year exponentially surpasses—by trillions—any form of exploitation of human beings anywhere, at any time. . . . American meat eaters were responsible for about 198 deaths per person in 2009, which accumulates to about 15,000 animals in the course of one individual’s lifetime.

If one cares about the earth—if one respects nature—it is better to consume vegetables, fruits, nuts, and grains. If you care about the planet and wish to adopt an earth-friendly lifestyle, it is advisable to focus only secondarily on the car that you drive, or recycling, or turning off lights and turning down heat, and primarily on what you buy at the grocery store. What we eat has a much greater impact on the environment.

Those guided by core religious commitments in one of the world’s largest religions are rightly anymal liberationists.

It's entirely possible that self-awarebeings have more value than those thatare not self-aware, but that doesn't meanto say that those that are notself-aware have no value. And when we arespeaking about just desires - you want tosatisfy a desire to eat flesh - then youdon't have a good reason for overridingthe value that animal life has. Ithas all the value that animal seesin it. That life is all that animal hasand it cares a great deal about it, evenif not as much as you do about your life.