Ingrid Newkirk Quotes

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

I try to only eat animals that are vegan. I'm probably the opposite of a vegan.

I'm not telling people to go vegan overnight.

I've been plant-based my whole life.

I was vegan for about 20 years.

I wasn't raised a vegetarian. I wish I was, though. I mean, that's really the best way to go. I just learned at a young age and stopped eating some things.

I'm not going to comment on whether I support vegetarianism or non-vegetarianism; it's just that I feel I'm fit because I'm a vegetarian.

Though I'm vegan and advocate that others eat a plant-based diet, I know that many people aren't quite ready to take that step in whole.

I thought being vegan was going to be some really horrible way of life that had no flavor.

I actually went on a vegan diet. So I was nagging myself there. I don't nag other people about it. It was sort of an interesting experiment, and I found it wasn't that hard at all.

In my own life, I decided to leave meat off my plate in medical school, but was a bit slow to realise that dairy products and eggs are not health foods either.

I got into being vegan because I was simply looking to benefit from being more compassionate. I have since come to learn that it is an animal-based diet that is responsible for the overwhelming majority of cases of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, multiple sclerosis, and all kinds of other problems.

I have been following a vegan diet now since the 1980s, and find it not only healthier, but also much more attractive than the chunks of meat that were on my plate as a child.

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

You can't jump to vegan if you're not. Some people are absolute. Some people are able to be gradual.

I'm always thirsty when I wake up, so I guzzle a bottle of Smart water before I scramble tofu with onions, peppers and spinach and top it with salsa. I've been a vegetarian for years, but I recently became vegan.

I'm a vegetarian; I eat a lot of tofu and soy.

I'm a vegan who cheats - that's what I call myself.

A couple of my mechanics have become vegan because I've done it. One of my barbers, too.

I try to be vegan... I really, really try. I don't eat any red meat, and the whole animal thing really upsets me, so I've tried.

I think the purpose of veganism is an appreciation for plants and veggies and fruit and to just eating cleaner... If you're going to go vegan, then really learn how to be.

My wife is vegan and has been for a few years.

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

Is it hard to be vegan? Absolutely not. It would be hard to not be vegan.

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.