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The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. T...

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Half the dogs in America will receive Christmas presents this year, yet few of us ever pause to cons...

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Michael PollanThe Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

There is no particular merit in being nice to one's fellow man... We can never establish with certai...

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I don't do the gym and I don't diet. I'm vegetarian but I don't diet.

It is easy to take a stand about a remote issue, but speciesists, like racists, reveal their true na...

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As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know hea...

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You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distan...

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

You're thinking I'm one of those wise-ass California vegetarians who is going to tell you that eatin...

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The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surroun...

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Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything g...

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Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable...

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Being voted the world's sexiest vegetarian is about as cool as it gets. It's not quite as cool as Br...

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I'll stop eating steak when you stop killing spiders." Absurdity: comparing cows to spiders. Arachni...

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I waited for him to come out. He didn't. I considered going in after him, but knew the fact that I h...

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Derrick JensenA Language Older Than Words

Despite the fact that an Indonesian island chicken has probably had a much more natural life than on...

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Of the animals I saw, I could write volumes. All were wild; for the Great Race's mechanised culture ...

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I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing...

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To be a vegetarian is to disagree - to disagree with the course of things today... starvation, cruel...

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These folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they ...

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The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary require...

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I won't eat what I can't kill. It seems shoddy, hypocritical.

People care about animals. I believe that. They just don’t want to know or to pay. A fourth of all c...

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It's nice to believe that when confronted with facts people will just suddenly respond to them but, ...

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It shouldn't be the consumer's responsibility to figure out what's cruel and what's kind, what's env...

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Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.

Two friends are ordering lunch. One says, 'I'm in the mood for a burger,' and orders it. The other s...

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Our response to the factory farm is ultimately a test of how we respond to the powerless, to the mos...

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As told by Kafka's close friend Max Brod:"Suddenly he began to speak to the fish in their illuminate...

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