Pariprashnena — Q&A Archive

Quotes about vegetarianism

Heart diseases cause almost half of deaths in United States and many doctors recommend people endangered in this way daily exercises and/or vegetarian diet.

"Vegetarian diet can prevent 70-90% of all heart diseases." - The Journal of the American Medical Association

"Vegetarians are characterized by longer life and significantly lower number of cancer cases in comparison with Americans who eat meat." - The American National Institute of Health

"Antibiotics like penicillin and tetracycline gradually lose their effectiveness because they are being routinely added into cattle feed and bacteria are developing resistance to them." - The New England Journal of Medicine

"Mere 10% decrease in meat production would provide an amount of grain sufficient to feed 60 000 000 people." - Jean Mayer, nutritionist, Harvard University

"Animals are my friends... and I do not eat my friends." - George Bernard Shaw

"Thou shall not kill." - Exodus 20:13

"Me him (mam sah) will eat in the next world - he whose meat I eat in this life; wise claim that this is the real meaning of the word ,meat` (mam sah)." - Manu-smriti 5.55

"A cruel and wretched person who maintains his existence at the cost of others lives deserves to be killed for his own well-being; otherwise he will go down by his own actions." - Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.7.37

There is a difference between killing person and killing animal, in the same way there is difference killing animal or plant.
Moreover, if you think about most of plant and fruits are eaten after they die naturally. e.g. wheat harvested when dry, potatoes collected when the plant dies, etc etc
what to speak of fruits and nuts, milk, legumes, etc
Even lettuce you pick up when its cycle has been completed, like that.

If you are really concerned about all those plants "dying" here something to think about. It takes 16 times more plants to feed a cow to ready them for slaughter than it does to feed a human.