Gautama Buddha (c.563–483 BC), philosopher whose teaching became the foundation of Buddhism
Stop Eating The Animals
”Animals are my friends…and I don’t eat my friends.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), Irish playwright, winner of the 1925 Nobel Prize in Literature, and cofounder of the London School of Economics
”If all creatures praise God, humans should not be killing some of the choir members!”
Jerry H. Parisella, author of Stop Eating The Animals
“I hold that the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.”
Mohandas Gandhi (1869–1948), Hindu advocate of nonviolent civil disobedience
”Perhaps 80 to 90% of all cancers, cardiovascular diseases, and other forms of degenerative illness can be prevented, at least until very old age, simply by adopting a plant-based diet.”
Dr. Colin Campbell, Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry, Cornell University
“If beef is your idea of ‘real food for real people,’ you’d better live real close to a real good hospital.”
Dr. Neal Barnard, President of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
“How pitiful, and what poverty of mind, to have said that the animals are machines deprived of understanding and feeling.”
Voltaire (1694–1778), French Enlightenment philosopher and advocate of personal liberties
“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, the whole world would be vegetarian.”
Sir Paul McCartney, iconic songwriter, singer, and musician
“The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo.”
Dr. Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965), physician, missionary, and Nobel Prize winner
“Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881), Russian novelist and philosopher
”As it is halachically prohibited to harm oneself and as healthy, nutritious vegetarian alternatives are easily available, meat consumption has become halachically unjustifiable.”
Rabbi David Rosen, author of Vegetarianism: An Orthodox Jewish Perspective
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