Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet

Every time we sit down to eat, we make a choice. Please choose vegetarianism. Do it for animals. Do it for the environment and do it for your health.

What every human being should do is eat a vegetarian diet based on whole foods. Period. That's it. Animal protein is bad for you. Dairy is bad for you. Forget the ads: Milk and eggs are bad for you.

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

Good Viking genes, being vegetarian and having rowdy dogs and kids definitely keep me in shape. Not eating meat gives me the energy I need to keep up with work, family and travel - I'm very active.

I'm a vegetarian, but I don't expect other people not to eat meat.

I try to eat mostly vegan.

I've been plant-based my whole life.

Almost went vegan, but no, I didn't go vegan.

I've been vegetarian for many years and only eat fish if I have to.

I wasn't raised in any way where I was forced to be a vegetarian, too. I always had the choice. My mom would say, 'I don't eat the stuff, so I won't cook it, but if you want to eat it, you can. Let me tell you why I don't eat it.' So she was open about it.

When I was young, I would gorge on chicken. But for the last several years, I've been a pure vegetarian; I don't even take egg.

I try not to push veganism specifically. If I'm asked for my advice, I say just eat healthy.

Anyone who cares about the Earth - really cares - must stop eating animals.

My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals.

I don't eat any animals or anything that has to do with animals. No fish or egg or dairy because I personally don't feel it's a good practice to eat anything that might run away from you.

But it’s compounded by the fact that I love animals and feel better not eating them.

I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.

If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat.

We stopped eating meat many years ago. During the course of a Sunday lunch we happened to look out of the kitchen window at our young lambs playing happily in the fields. Glancing down at our plates, we suddenly realized that we were eating the leg of an animal who had until recently been playing in a field herself. We looked at each other and said, "Wait a minute, we love these sheep-they're such gentle creatures. So why are we eating them?" It was the last time we ever did.

Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. Nor is it an attempt to isolate oneself from the ugly realities of the world, to keep oneself pure and so without responsibility for the cruelty and carnage all around. Becoming a vegetarian is a highly practical and effective step one can take toward ending both the killing of nonhuman animals and the infliction of suffering on them.

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.

The distinction between meat and other animal products is total nonsense. Vegetarianism is a morally incoherent position. If you regard animals as members of the moral community, you really don’t have a choice but to go vegan.

It does take a little work to be a vegetarian but it's so worth it, oh it's so worth it!

I played around with vegetarianism back in the '70s. One thing, my physiology just got to have animal protein. I get hypoglycemic, I get all light-headed unless I eat animal protein.