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Food Quotes

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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I have always been an animal lover. I had a hard time disassociating the animals I cuddled with—dogs and cats, for example—from the animals on my plate, and I never really cared for the taste of meat. I always loved my Brussels sprouts!

Kristen Bell

There's no question that largely vegetarian diets are as healthy as you can get. The evidence is so strong and overwhelming and produced over such a long period of time that it's no longer debatable.

Marion Nestle

When we have a choice it is always best to choose kindness. Veganism is simply the kinder choice.

Sharon Gannon

Tell me what you eat, and I shall tell you what you are.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Physiologie du Gout (1825)

If, Mahāmati, meat is not eaten by anybody for any reason, there will be no destroyer of life.

Gautama Buddha

I do not eat meat, I do not smoke, and I do not drink, and therefore, I do not feel the cold.

Percy Grainger

The human flesh and the flesh of beasts is similar and their crimson blood is also the same.

Kabir

We must change our diet. The planet can’t support billions of meat-eaters.

David Attenborough

The good news is that our bodies thrive on a conscious plant-based diet, and that this diet is infinitely more compassionate to animals and people and more environmentally sustainable than eating animal foods.

Will Tuttle The World Peace Diet (2005)

From eating [meat] arrogance is born, from arrogance erroneous imaginations issue, and from imagination is born greed; and for this reason refrain from eating [meat].

Gautama Buddha

The food of the wise, Mahāmati, is what is eaten by the Rishis; it does not consist of meat and blood.

Gautama Buddha

There is no meat to be regarded as pure in three ways: not premeditated, not asked for, and not impelled; therefore, refrain from eating meat.

Gautama Buddha

Why are vegans made fun of while the inhumane factory farming process regards animals and the natural world merely as commodities to be exploited for profit?

Elliot Page

Something is broken when the food comes on a Styrofoam tray wrapped in slippery plastic, a carcass of a being whose only chance at life was a cramped cage. That is not a gift of life; it is a theft.

Robin Wall Kimmerer Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)

As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.

Pythagoras

I wonder at those who think about their body's food, but do not think about their soul's food. They keep away disturbing food from their belly, but fill up their hearts with destructive subjects.

Hasan ibn Ali

I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage—an inexorable demand—that we should cease to kill our fellow-creatures for satisfaction of our bodily wants.

Mahatma Gandhi

You either approve of violence or you don't, and nothing on earth is more violent or extreme than the meat industry.

Morrissey

Someone said that Capitalism will eat itself, and I think that’s like the meat industry, the meat industry itself will become dead meat and compassion will reign supreme.

Benjamin Zephaniah

I say that on three instances meat should not be partaken, when seen, heard or when there is a doubt.

Gautama Buddha

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