Yotam Ottolenghi Quotes

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

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 know that as a vegan, I'm in a minority. People love their meat. It's up there with sugar and TV and maybe even coffee on the list of inalienable American rights.

I call myself a vegetarian with vegan tendencies.

With my time in the limelight, I regret that I didn't use it more to push vegetarianism. I support vegetarian options in the school lunch program.

I don't eat meat. I've been a vegetarian since 1971. I've gradually become increasingly vegan. I am largely vegan, but I'm a flexible vegan. I don't go to the supermarket and buy non-vegan stuff for myself. But when I'm traveling or going to other people's places, I will be quite happy to eat vegetarian rather than vegan.

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 think breakfast is the one meal when you don't have to eat animal, maybe.

I kind of feel for the vegetable world - the vegetarian world. It's almost as if people look at them like aliens or foreigners.

I'm part-time vegan. I try to be vegan when I can. But I dip and dive in everywhere.

My whole thing isn't about being vegan, to be honest. It's more about a more natural diet.

You're never going to persuade a meat-eater to become a vegetarian on taste grounds. They're completely different. One is a cleaner, fresher taste: it hasn't got that bass-note beefiness.

That's the nice thing about being a vegetarian. You don't have to be neurotic. Selective omnivores have to be neurotic. Personally, I don't have time for all that; I don't want to get into it.

It takes a little work to be a vegan, but now it's really possible to have tasty stuff and it's better for you. I say the best test is go as far as you can and see how you feel. Personally, I feel great.

I think that if a person wants to remain vegetarian, they're just going to have to go hungry.

My children not only inspired me to reconsider what kind of eating animal I would be, but also shamed me into reconsideration.

A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children.

I'm not really vegan. I'm vegan-ish. I have a piece of lamb every now and then.

I've been a vegetarian since I was 19.

A lot of people think I'm a vegan. I'm not.

Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace.

I am vegetarian, though, and so is my family.

There used to be a time - it isn't so much the case now - that vegetarianism was some kind of religion, and either you belong or you don't belong.

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

No, I'm not a vegetarian. I do eat that way. I actually eat vegan quite a lot. I feel better when I eat that way, and I think there's been a lot of proof that's come up over the last however many years, that you can't deny, I don't think, that meat or dairy aren't all that good for us.