Quotes from famous people

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian. We feel better about ourselves and better about the animals, knowing we're not contributing to their pain.
Paul and Linda McCartney, singers/songwriters

I grew up in cattle country-that's why I became a vegetarian. Meat stinks, for the animals, the environment, and your health.
k. d. lang, singer/songwriter

If you could see or feel the suffering you wouldn't think twice. Give back life. Don't eat meat.
Kim Basinger, actor

I haven't bought any leather articles for a very long time. My ideal is to be able to avoid all animal products, in food as well as clothing.
Martina Navratilova, tennis champion

My respect and empathy towards animals includes sea dwellers too--from dolphins to fish to lobsters. So, of course, I wouldn't dream of eating them.
Alexandra Paul, Baywatch

As custodians of the planet it is our responsibility to deal with all species with kindness, love and compassion. That these animals suffer through human cruelty is beyond understanding. Please help to stop this madness.
Richard Gere, actor

Animals are my friends-and I don't eat my friends.
George Bernard Shaw, playwright

Compassion is the foundation of everything positive, everything good. If you carry the power of compassion to the marketplace and the dinner table, you can make your life really count.
Rue McClanahan, Golden Girls

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, physicist

We stopped eating meat many years ago. During the course of a Sunday lunch we happened to look out of the kitchen window at our young lambs playing happily in the fields. Glancing down at our plates, we suddenly realised we were eating the leg of an animal who had until recently been playing in a field herself. We looked at each other and said: "Wait a minute, we love these sheep-they're such gentle creatures. So why are we eating them?" It was the last time we ever did.
Paul and Linda McCartney, singers/songwriters

How can you eat anything with eyes!
Will Kellogg, founder of Kellogg's company

Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.
Franz Kafka, author

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