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The page leans toward the ethics of eating more than cooking. The Buddha, Gandhi and two writers on vegetarian and vegan diets, Victoria Moran and Joanne Stepaniak, head the list. Shelley’s A Vindication of Natural Diet (1813) is the oldest sourced piece, and Blake’s Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790) adds the remark that all wholesome food is caught without a net or a trap.

For a lighter line, Shaw’s Man and Superman (1903) holds that there is no love sincerer than the love of food. None of the entries on this page is flagged as misattributed.

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There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman (1903)

If you are eating well and your condition is pure and clean, life itself becomes like the dreams or visions that you have when sleeping.

Michio Kushi Spiritual Journey: Michio Kushi's Guide to Endless Self-Realization and Freedom (1994)

Vegetarianism is an ideal way to actualize the Torah's vision of a world in which the divine spark in all creation is respected and revered.

Bonnie Koppell

Vegetarianism is a way of life that we should all move toward for economic survival, physical well-being and spiritual integrity.

Thomas Berry

Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox.

Isaac Leib Peretz

The natural food of man, judging from his structure, appears to consist of the fruits, roots, and other succulent parts of vegetables.

Georges Cuvier

Implementing a compassionate perspective that embraces all life is at the heart of being vegan.

Joanne Stepaniak Being Vegan (2000)

Man is innately a creature of love. That love is the most powerful force in the universe, and eventually — it's a very slow process — it will conquer.

Dennis Weaver Interview with Rynn Berry in The Vegetarians (1979)

Even if man were created a carnivorous animal, is there no way for him to outgrow it as he becomes more intelligent?

Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha'nish Mazdaznan Dietetics and Cookery Book (1913)

The vegan lifestyle is a compassionate way to live that supports life, supports fairness and equality, and promotes freedom.

Robert Cheeke Vegan Bodybuilding and Fitness (2010)

The vegan choice is revolutionary, it is an act of daily love for animals and people.

Loredana Cannata

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

Mary Midgley Animals and Why They Matter (1983)

98 percent of the animals raised for food suffer horrifically on factory farms before being slaughtered. Every time you eat a vegan meal, you're voting for something different.

Victoria Moran The Good Karma Diet (2015)

I am a vegetarian for health reasons—the health of the chicken.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Like many Chinese people, particularly those of the older generation, she didn't show her love for me by hugging or soliciting emotional outpourings, but through food and fussing.

Fuchsia Dunlop

We need never look for universal peace on this earth until men stop killing animals for food.

Charles Fillmore

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

Mahatma Gandhi

Quite often the young person is horrified at innocent animals being driven to the slaughterhouse to satisfy the appetites of the human species which could easily feed itself in other ways.

Jean Mayer

Comparative anatomy, therefore, proves that man is naturally a frugivorous animal, formed to subsist upon fruits, seeds, and farinaceous vegetables.

Sylvester Graham

Vegetarianism is harmless enough though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.

Sir Robert Hutchison, 1st Baronet

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