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Famous Vegetarians and Vegans
Socrates
Plato
Plutarch
Tagore
Buddha
Rousseau
Shelley
Thoreau
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Sir Isaac Newton
Nikola Tesla-inventor
H.G. Wells
Robert Lutz former president of Chrysler Corp - now heading General Motors.
Andrew Bartlett Senator in Australian Parliament (Source: speech in Australian Senate, self reported)
Chelsea Clinton U.S. President Bill Clinton's daughter (Source: PETA newsletter)
David Duchovny star of the X-Files (Source: Entertainment Weekly, Sept/Oct 95)
Graham Spencer Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Excite, a pioneer company in Internet technology and services (source: PBS Interview on show - “Triumph of the Nerds." While describing his sudden wealth, he talks about how hard it is to buy a luxury car with non-leather seats since he's a vegetarian. He does actually say he's a vegetarian)
John Cleese actor
Dustin Hoffman actor, vegetarian
Martina Navratalova tennis champion
Alicia Silverstone actress, vegetarian
Alanis Morissette singer, vegetarian
Billy Jean King tennis champion
Paula Cole singer, vegan
Nastassja Kinski actress, model
(the artist formerly known as) Prince singer, vegan
Chrissy Hynde vegetarian, singer, The Pretenders
Paul & Linda McCartney musicians, vegetarian
Sara Gilbert vegetarian, actor on "Roseanne"
Jerry Seinfeld vegetarian, comedian/actor "Seinfeld"
Eddie Vedder vegetarian, singer, Pearl Jam
William Shatner actor, vegetarian
Carol Burnett actress, vegetarian
Mary Tyler Moore actress, vegetarian
Fiona Apple singer vegan
K.D. Lang singer vegan
Kim Basinger actress, vegetarian
Alec Baldwin actor, vegetarian
Mr. Rogers (Fred) children show host, vegetarian
Catherine Oxenberg actress, vegetarian
Jennie Garth actress Beverly Hills 90210
Boy George singer
Melissa Etheridge singer
Bill Pearl Mr Universe, Mr. America, very famous in the bodybuilding world, especially as a trainer, vegetarian
Andreas Cahling Mr. International 1980 (other titles: runner up Mr World and Mr International), famous for being vegetarian as a bodybuilder (believed to be vegan)
Robbie Grey member of musical group "Modern English", wrote, "I Melt with You"
Daniel Johns musician Silverchair ,vegan
Bryan Adams musician, vegan
Famous Quotes
“Let thy food be thy medecine”
Hippocrates 460-377 BC
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“The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them. That is the essence of imhumanity.”
"A dinner! How horrible! I am to be made the pretext for killing
all those wretched animals and birds, and fish! Thank you for nothing.
Now if it were to be a fast instead of a feast; say a solemn three days'
abstention from corpses in my honour, I could at least pretend to believe
that it was disinterested. Blood sacrifices are not in my line."
- Letter 30 December 1929
On being asked why he was a vegetarian
Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account
for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals,
you might well ask me why I did that.
- The Vegetarian, 15 January 1898
"While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?"
George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
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"How are we to build a new humanity? Only by leading men toward a true, inalienable ethic of our own... Reverence for life comprises the whole ethic of love in its deepest and highest sense. It is the source of constant renewal for the individual and for mankind. "
"Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man himself will not find peace. "
"We must never permit the voice of humanity within us to be alienated. It is man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man. "
Albert Schweitzer 1875 - 1965
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"My opinion is well known. I do not regard flesh food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live. I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species.
"It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the compassionate if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion towards our fellow creatures. "
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Mahatma Ghandhi 1869 -1948
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"Animals are God's creatures, not human property, nor utilities, nor resources, nor commodities, but precious beings in God's sight."
Rev. Dr Andrew Linzey 1952 -
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"The question is not, Can they reason?
Nor Can they talk?
But, Can they suffer?"
Jeremy Bentham
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I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come
when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look
upon the murder of men.
- from da Vinci's 'Notes'
Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds theirs. We
live by the death of others: We are burial places!
- Merijkowsky, Romance of Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo DaVinci 1452 -1519
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It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical
effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the
lot of mankind.
- Letter to 'Vegetarian Watch-Tower', 27 December 1930
Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
Albert Einstein 1879-1955 Physicist, Nobel Prize winner 1921
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A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore,
if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the
sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.
- On Civil Disobedience
What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have
the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit
of many, there will be no limit for their cruelty.
- letter to Mrs C.P.Farrell, July 1909
If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence
is from injury to animals.
- The First Step
Pity is always the same feeling, it doesn't matter, whether you feel
it for a human being or a fly.
- unkown origin
Leo Tolstoy 1828-1910
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If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter
of compassion and pity, you will have men who deal likewise with their
fellow men. Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them,
but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission - to be of service
to them wherever they require it.
- Quoted in the Life by St.Bonaventura
St.Francis of Assisi 1181-1226
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Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten
our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature
fed by the death of another! In the midst of such wealth as earth, the
best of mothers, provides, nothing forsooth satisfies you, but to behave
like the Cyclopes, inflicting sorry wounds with cruel teeth! You cannot
appease the hungry cravings of your wicked, gluttonous stomachs except
by destroying some other life.
- Depicted in : The Metamorphoses, translated by Mary M.Innes
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 ?580-?500 BC
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The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
Charles Darwin 1809-1882
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Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
Thomas Edison 1847-1931
