If you've thought about not eating animals for ethical reasons, health
reasons, environmental reasons or any other reason, here are a few good links that
will help get you started:
Philip Wollen's "Animals Should Be Off the Menu,"
delivered at the Wheeler Centre:
Some good quotes:
"For as long as men massacre animals, they will
kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and
pain cannot reap joy and love."
--Pythagoras
"Nothing will benefit human health and increase
chances of survival for life on earth as much as the
evolution to a vegetarian diet." --Albert Einstein
"My body will not be a tomb for other creatures."
--Leonardo Da Vinci
“While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered
beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this
earth?” --George Bernard Shaw
"The question is not, 'Can they reason?' nor, 'Can they
talk?' but rather, 'Can they suffer?'"
--Jeremy Bentham
"Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul
remains unawakened." --Anatole France
"There is no fundamental difference between man and
animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain,
happiness, and misery." --Charles Darwin
“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.”
--Thich
Nhat Hanh
“Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the
goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other
living beings, we are still savages.”
--Thomas A. Edison
“Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any
more.” --Franz Kafka
“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals
for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in
taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And
to act so is immoral.” --Leo Tolstoy
