Neal Barnard Quotes

In 1995 I decided to stop eating meat. I could never really quite explain why; I think it was something to do with watching a documentary where they cooked a cat and partly because I had a really crap job working for Wolves Poly and felt my life was slipping away. It definitely wasn't anything to do with any 'vegetarian month'.

I never eat meat as I think it is wrong to deprive animals of their life when they are so difficult to chew anyway.

Early in my life I had made a pact with myself. I would never eat anything that moved when I cooked it, excited the dog, or inflated upon impact with my teeth.

I think vegetarianism is a crucial ethical choice for an individual and a society.

Stop being a vegan and start enjoying what you eat.

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.

I'm not telling people to go vegan overnight.

Cutting meat out of your diet is the best thing you can do for animals and your own health.

But I'm also a vegetarian so there's another factor I guess.

Being vegan just gives you such great karma.

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

I am an on-and-off vegetarian. Sometimes on, mostly off. I think it is better to be a vegetarian but occasionally, the call of the hot dog overpowers my ethics.

One has got to choose between the two evils, also between the lesser of the two evils in the matter of food, and therefore vegetarian food has got to he taken by man in order to sustain human life.

People have their cultural reasons for eating meat, their traditional reasons, their likes and dislikes.

When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not.

I was one of those kids who found it difficult to eat anything that looked like an animal.

We should propagate the values of vegetarianism.

It is all very well for 2% of the population to live in a monastic state of meatlessness while everyone else gorges their way towards environmental meltdown or the nearest heart clinic. Vegetarianism is good for the willing minority, but not much use as a campaign tool.

I became a vegetarian at 15. I was always an animal lover and, as a teenager, became increasingly uncomfortable with the idea of eating meat. It was then that I started to research vegetarianism.

Some of the best things about being a vegetarian include, of course, contributing towards the welfare of animals. Being a vegetarian can also make you a healthier person, and it helps the environment. All of these things make vegetarianism worthwhile. It's really a win-win situation.

I'm a vegetarian - I think there's a strong possibility, had I not become a vegetarian, I would not be working now. I became a vegetarian about 25 years ago, and I did it out of concern for animals. But I immediately began having more energy and feeling better.

I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.

Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.

My wife is a vegetarian. When my wife is with me, I eat vegetarian. When she's not, I eat meat. I'm just being honest.