“This is dreadful! Not the suffering and death of the animals, but that man suppresses in himself, unnecessarily, the highest spiritual capacity — that of sympathy and pity towards living creatures like himself — and by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart in the injunction not to take life!”
Leo Tolstoy 1828-1920 — Russian novelist and social theorist.

There is a Native American legend that says when a human dies, there is a bridge they must cross to enter heaven. At the head of that bridge waits every animal that human encountered, in any way, during their lifetime. The animals, based upon what they know of this person, decide which humans may cross the bridge, and which are turned away.

"Protect both our species, two-legged and four-legged. Both food and water for their needs supply. May they with us increase in stature and strength. Save us from hurt all our days, O Powers!"
Rig Veda Samhita 10.37.11. (5000 year old Sanskrit text)

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

"Those noble souls who practice meditation and other yogic ways, who are ever careful about all beings, who protect all animals, are the ones who are actually serious about spiritual practices."
Atharva Veda Samhita 19.48.5. FS, 90 (5000 year old Sanskrit text)

“If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat. That’s the single most important thing you could do. It’s staggering when you think about it. Vegetarianism takes care of so many things in one shot: ecology, famine, cruelty.”
Sir Paul McCartney (former Beatle)

 

You must not use your God-given body for killing God's creatures, whether they are human, animal or whatever. Yajur Veda Samhita 12.32. FS, 90 (5000 year old Sanskrit text) "May all beings look at me with a friendly eye. May I do likewise, and may we all look on each other with the eyes of a friend." Yajur Veda 36.18. (5000 year old Sanskrit text)

The purchaser of flesh performs himsa (violence) by his wealth; he who eats flesh does so by enjoying its taste; the killer does himsa by actually tying and killing the animal. Thus, there are three forms of killing: he who brings flesh or sends for it, he who cuts off the limbs of an animal, and he who purchases, sells or cooks flesh and eats it -all of these are to be considered meat-eaters.
Mahabharata, Anu. 115.40. FS, pg 90 (5000 year old Sanskrit text)

"And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which [is] upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which [is] the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. Genesis 1:29 "But flesh with the life thereof, [which is] the blood thereof, shall ye not eat." Genesis 9:4. "And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man." Genesis 9:5 "To what purpose [is] the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? Saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats." Isaiah 1:11."

 

How many vegans does it take to change a light bulb? Two. One to change it and one to check for animal ingredients. How many vivisectors does it take to change a lightbulb? None. They don't want you to see what they are doing. Why did the vegetarian cross the road? Because she was protesting for the chicken. Why did the chicken cross the road? Because Colonel Sanders was chasing him. Why did the tofu cross the road? To prove he wasn't chicken. A vegetarian has celery sticking out of one ear, lettuce out of the other, and a zucchini up his nose. He goes to the doctor and asks him what's wrong. The doctor tells him, "Well, for one thing, you're not eating right."

A man had a parrot that could talk. Unfortunately, it swore a lot. In an effort to get the parrot to be quiet, he put him in a cupboard. The parrot continued swearing and after a while the man decided to put the bird in the freezer. After that, the parrot started swearing even more. After a few minutes, he suddenly became quiet. The man opened up the freezer and the parrot said, "I'm sorry, sir, it will never happen again." As the man took the bird out of the freezer he wondered what the difference was between the cupboard and the freezer. Just then, the parrot said, "So, uh... what'd the chicken do?"

A vegetarian, a meat eater, and a cannibal walk into a bar, the veggie orders a salad, the meat eater a burger. The bartender asks the cannibal "anything for you?" "No thanks, I'll wait till they're done."

"Vegetarianism serves as a criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of man is genuine and sincere.” Tolstoy.

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