Mary Tyler Moore Quotes

I do not want an animal to die for me.

Therefore, vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of com-passion, which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world.

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

I like animals, all animals. I wouldn't hurt a cat or a dog - or a chicken or a cow. And I wouldn't ask someone else to hurt them for me. That's why I'm a vegetarian.

The way I eat is a heavy statement on my belief system. I eat cruelty-free. It is my way of being able to take a stand against doing harm to any living creature.

When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.

I became a vegetarian because I was persuaded that life is as valid for other creatures as it is for humans. I do not need dead animal bodies to keep me alive, strong and healthy. Therefore, I will not kill for food.

My reason for becoming a vegetarian was simple: I loved (and love) animals

My mother taught me a lot about respect for all living things - for plants and animals. I am a vegetarian. I was brought up that way.

I've been a vegetarian for years and years. I'm not judgemental about others who aren't, I just feel I cannot eat or wear living creatures.

Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace.

That's one of the reasons I'm vegan. Death terrifies me. I don't want to impose death on anyone else.

Vegetarianism is the best way of expressing love for animals.

Of course black lives matter. All lives matter. I stopped eating meat because their lives matter to me. I don't think it's necessary for us to grow a cow to kill it.

For innumerable reasons, Mahamati, the Bodhisattva, whose nature is compassion, is not to eat any meat.

The ultimate tendency of liberalism is vegetarianism.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

Being a vegetarian really saves lives.

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.

Dia de Los Muertos is a holiday that pays tribute to the dead and also celebrates life. So I thought, what better of an idea to bring it in with PETA and let people know how we can respect the living and the dead. Going vegetarian could be an incredible option for people if they would just educate themselves.

I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me.

If slaughterhouses had glass walls the whole world would be vegetarian.

Give your dog or cat respect, patience, understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week, that's a wonderful step that will save animal lives. It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel.

I don't feel I have the right to snuff the lives of chicken and fish.

My take is that the optimal approach to food, for health and ethical reasons, may be vegetarianism.