John Green Quotes

I only eat meat if I go to a nice restaurant and there is an exceptional dish, or if I'm at somebody's home for a dinner, I'll eat whatever is in front of me. Otherwise, I don't eat anything that walks around and has a face.

So, basically, my view is I don't want to support the exploitation of animals, and within reason, I will do what I can to avoid it, but it's not like it's a religion for me. It's not like I consider I'm polluted if somehow some bit of milk or cheese or something passes my lips.

I'm a vegan and London's great for vegans.

I'm technically a vegan, but I do eat egg if it's in things.

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

I call myself a vegetarian with vegan tendencies.

I don't eat four-legged animals, but I eat birds, I eat cheese, I eat dessert. I eat everything.

I'm vegan on home base, but when I travel to other countries, I throw it all into the garbage.

I've been a vegetarian since I was about 12 years old. When I became a vegetarian, I got my mom and dad to become vegetarian, and my brother became a vegetarian.

I have my values. I do things that I think are right. I think it is crucial for mankind to go vegetarian. In fact, I think if the United States and one other major power becomes basically vegetarian, the whole world will become vegetarian, eventually.

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

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.

The kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat eating as if it's a way to care about things, but also not to alienate yourself from the rest of the world. But it's so much more alienating than vegetarianism.

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

I try and eat really healthy when I'm home, but I certainly don't eat worms and snakes.

I don't think that eating bones is necessarily gruesome unless you're a vegetarian.

I go in the butchers and there's not a lot of meat I can eat these days, with having all the animals.

A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.

I was raised vegan. My mom would always make quinoa with squash and kale, hippie stuff like that. Now I eat meat, but I try to be conscious about where it's coming from.

I'm a vegetarian and have been since I was about four because I struggled to separate the idea of the animal from the food.

I grew up on an organic farm in England. And I was a vegetarian from an early age - not just for health, not for the environment - just because I didn't believe in killing animals to eat them.

I was a fairly strict vegetarian - I ate eggs and dairy products but nothing that would involve killing an animal to furnish the food on my plate.

I don't like hypocrisy, I don't like double standards, it's probably why i'm vegan.

What we get at home is 100% organic food. We are also 90% vegetarian.

It's harder to eat meat when you know the animal's name...I have found.