"You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable."
- Jasper Fforde
"It appeals to the higher nature of the self to put aside food which once lived - I do not consider myself food, why should I ask all other creatures to consider themselves so?"
- Catherynne M. Valente
"It is difficult to ascertain what role these articles play in marginalizing the vegetarian experience when there are so many more pressing issues that confront individuals who might otherwise choose t..."
- Sunaura Taylor
"Meat may taste good, but the guilt of eating it tastes far worse."
- Evan Baldonado
"Fed by plants, fed up with the world"
"Half the dogs in America will receive Christmas presents this year, yet few of us ever pause to consider the life of the pig-an animal easily as intelligent as a dog-that becomes the Christmas ham."
- Michael Pollan
"I won't eat what I can't kill. It seems shoddy, hypocritical."
- Jeanette Winterson
"Why don't you like the foods I like?" he asks sometimes. "Why don't you like the foods I make?" I answer."
- Lydia Davis
"In my mother's book, a vegetarian is somebody who is not concern with his or her diet and health. "Someone who prefer bush and grass, as if they is sheeps and cows, is somebody who don't have enough f..."
- Austin Clarke