Vegetarian Quotes - page 7
![Being vegetarian was easy for me. The hard part was going on the road. The team was always stopping at steakhouses and places where I couldn't really eat anything. Meat seemed nasty to me because I never had it growing up. But I would end up eating a whole plate of fries, mashed potatoes, or macaroni and cheese instead. At home, my mom would make things that-we would never really know how she made it, but it tasted good, and it was vegetarian. Now, I've changed my diet from vegetarian to mostly [raw] vegan. (Michael Porter Jr.)](https://cdn.quotesdtb.com/img/quotes_images_webp/65/michael-porter-jr-anything-952765.webp)
Some yoga teachers say that a vegetarian diet is not necessary.
[Pattabhi Jois]: [laughing] Oh ... a new method!
Many Indians and Westerners eat meat.
[Pattabhi Jois]: They are not practicing yoga. Meat eating makes you stiff.
What is the most important yogic practice in this time?
[Pattabhi Jois]: Vegetarian diet is the most important practice for yoga.
K. Pattabhi Jois
I cannot kill. Unfortunately, there are so many who can and do kill. As I cannot kill I cannot authorize others to kill. Do you see? If you are buying from a butcher you are authorizing him to kill - kill helpless, dumb creatures, which neither I nor you could kill ourselves. So that I am for that reason a vegetarian, as most Russians are. For nine years I have been a vegetarian, and I shall be one - mind, I am a man with strong convictions - to the end of my life.
Paolo Troubetzkoy
It's only one planet. It's all we have. So what we do here affects the other side of the planet in ways we never know. ... I am [vegetarian] too, but leaning towards veganism. ... I give people the dirtiest look when we walk down the street and see someone wearing fur. He gets embarrassed because I will look at them like, how could you even walk out of your house like that? You might as well be wearing my dog. What are you doing? I started getting into animal rights when I met him [Corey Feldman], but I've always loved animals.
Susie Feldman
I'm trying to reproduce healthily in a vegetarian way every kind of flesh there is - bacon, smoked salmon, roast meat. We're working on it. A lot of vegetarians complain that my book [Linda McCartney's Home Cooking] is meat-oriented and some of the products look like meat. For me, though, it's a matter of not just preaching - I hate to do it and it doesn't work - but helping to make the alternatives more attractive to more people. Change the eating habits and maybe you change the thinking habits. ... I'm convinced that part of the reason the world is so sick is that so many people eat flesh. What are you doing but eating a slab of fear? ... Look how long it took to abolish slavery. There was a time when much of the "civilized" world thought it was acceptable. And then they saw that it was wrong. I think the same thing will happen with eating animals. I have faith that the day will come when the world looks back and says, "How could we have done that?"
Linda McCartney
I've been a vegetarian since I was 35. It just happened-it just came over me. I'd gotten asthma and was having trouble sleeping, getting less than an hour of sleep a night. ... I decided I wouldn't eat meat any more, not even for a million dollars. I felt cleansed and incredible, like the inflammation in my body had been reduced. It was life-changing. ... When I decided to become vegetarian, I had to learn how to ‘recook,' if you will. ... When I gave up meat, I wondered what I would make. That turned out to be vegetables, really organic and fresh. I made them very flavorful, using herbs, lemon and a little oil. I think I taught my kids well. My daughter, Dinah, for example, is also a vegetarian and doesn't eat anything that can look at her.
Cloris Leachman
That song [5-3-10-4 from Maybe I'll Catch Fire] really is about how I saw things. I wrote that song when I was still doing the bike messenger grind and you know being down by the stockyards where they would take all the animals and slaughter them; there were a bunch of slaughterhouses down there and there were cows and pigs being frozen and chunks of meat were hanging in trucks, it was such a pinnacle time in my life. ... I haven't eaten meat for something like 17 years. I remember I was eating meat one day and my cat was looking up at me and I thought, ‘Man I wouldn't eat my cat. What difference would it make if it was a little cat or a cow?' and it occurred to me that we are all connected and I didn't want to contribute to that. All the time people around me are eating meat but that is their thing, it is not until they ask that I inform them that I am a vegetarian and it is a big part of who I am.
Matt Skiba
There's a very strong connection between a lot of the evils of the modern world-factory farming, abuse against women-and the environment. We're destroying the female. If you think about the earth as a female organism which it is, in its totality, you know how we're disrespecting and abusing it. ... [I have] very strong feelings about factory farming ... I'm a vegetarian myself ... I don't want any kind of suffering of any living form but it's more to do with the awareness that so much of the meat on the planet is being produced by factory farms. Animals are being pumped full of growth hormones which are then getting fed to our kids. And it's affecting the water, environment. ... We are being duped and controlled by huge multinationals that are concerned about the short term, not the long term and don't care about the individual.
Thandie Newton
I've always been an animal-lover and when I was about twelve I became a vegetarian. My mom subscribed to PETA's magazine and I just started looking at the level of what it was. And I just thought it was unkind, so I made my personal choice - which at that point had nothing to do with the global scale of the situation. And so I know it was really early, but I made up my mind then to become an entertainer primarily because I thought I could help. I noticed that all my friends respected entertainers and knew more entertainers names than politicians names, so that was my turning point from possibly doing politics to entertainment ... So that was one of the reasons I went into this field. And then the more I kept going career-wise, the more I've been able to use that vehicle - that megaphone. And that was exciting - the only exciting part, personally, about being a celebrity. I don't think there's anything good about it, except the ability to make positive change.
Persia White
When I was a small child and adults asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I always beamed and said, ‘A vegetarian'. And that's exactly what I became. Despite growing up with parents who lived on meals of meat and two veg, eating animals never made sense to me. ... I grew up surrounded by dogs and cats and couldn't understand why we protected these animals, played with them, encouraged them to sleep in our beds, and called them ‘pets' while labelling other equally interesting, cuddly, and sentient animals ‘dinner'.
Sadie Frost
Animals that are killed for their flesh lead miserable lives. They are kept in disgusting conditions. The simplest little thing you can do not to hurt animals is just not eat them. I'm bringing my four children up vegetarian, and I know absolutely that I'm giving them the very best start in life.
Sadie Frost
Meat-eating is undesirable if the person is interested in physical and mental well-being, in securing tranquility for the body and mind. ... The greatest religious teachers have always recommended a vegetarian diet because it is a diet that stills the mind as well as strengthening the body. They are unanimous in saying that a peaceful mind, a serene mind, is necessary to recognize the God within you. "Blessed are the pure in hearth; they shall see God," the Bible says. And yoga strives to calm and pacify the mind so that the person can recognize the God within.
Satchidananda Saraswati
I was born a vegetarian. ... I feel there is no need to cause another living thing pain or harm. There are so many other things we can eat. I have never eaten meat in my life, and I'm 5 foot 10 and not exactly wasting away. A wise man once said, ‘Animals are my friends, and I'm not in the habit of eating my friends.' That is exactly how I feel.
Joss Stone
I'm vegan in my fashion and vegetarian in my food. I don't buy any leather goods or anything made from animal products – no down, nothing. It's something people should be mindful of. ... I think because I came to live in L. A. the transition was simple because vegetarianism is so common there. And I didn't feel like I was missing that much by being a vegetarian. ... I had a moment about 9 years ago. It was so odd. I was talking to my then-boyfriend and he was talking about a fishing trip and how he'd never had the experience of ‘killing' his food. Even though I had fished my whole life, something just snapped in me and I said, I'm not eating this anymore. ... Being vegan is more challenging, especially when it comes to going out to eat. But I found Chicago has great vegetarian and vegan restaurants. ... Healthwise, I notice when I wasn't eating meat anymore I felt so much lighter.
Torrey DeVitto
A vegetarian diet, by reason of its low content of saturated fatty acids, cholesterol, and animal proteins, and its high concentrations of folic acids, antioxidants, and phytoestrogens-shown to be effective in inhibiting the growth or in promoting the regression of serious coronary pathologies-constitutes a barrier against a number of chronic degenerative diseases, cancer among them. And that is not all. Fruits and vegetables-besides contaminating us much less than some other foods-are troves of precious substances that enable the neutralization of carcinogenic agents and that 'dilute' the concentration of diseased cells and reduce their proliferation. All of these advantages, as well as many others, emerged from studies on populations in the last century.
Umberto Veronesi
Playing in shows all around the world takes tons of energy. Being a vegetarian has made a huge difference. Not only is a vegetarian lifestyle healthier, it's better for the animals and for the environment. And no matter where you find yourself on the planet, you can always find a great veggie meal.
Phil Collen
If you can spend a little time with these creatures, you can connect them again to animals that you love, which I think helps everybody remember the importance of treating them humanely and with dignity. These are, you know, the lucky animals that have fallen off the backs of trucks and stuff. If you want to help the environment, go vegetarian.
Jorja Fox
I went vegetarian after watching Earthlings. I had no idea how intense and how horrible factory farms are. I have such a love for animals that I can't justify having their heads cut off for me. And the slavery of the dairy industry motivates me to go more vegan. I can't justify animal slavery for my enjoyment. ... I feel stronger than I've ever been, mentally, physically, and emotionally. My plant-based diet has opened up more doors to being an athlete. It's a whole other level that I'm elevating to. I stopped eating animals about a year ago, and it's a new life. I feel like a new person, a new athlete.
Hannah Teter
