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Quotes about Veganism

In the end, while Michigan's law improves the living conditions of these animals, it does not improve their lives. From day one, they are treated as commodities...

marji
Source: http://animalplacesanctuary.blogspot.com/2009/10/on-michigans-animal-welfare-reforms.html
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The agony of the rat or the slaughter of a calf remains present in thought not through pity but as the zone of exchange between man and animal in which something of one passes into the other.

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Source: Deleuze and Guattari, What Is Philosophy?
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To consume wine and meat is your privilege. To not consume them is your merit.

Master Mazu
Source: http://www.shabkar.org/teachers/chan/master_mazu.htm
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When the darkness of the world seems overwhelming, unstoppable, crushing, when beings like Celeste, who love life and sing about love are being turned into meat and handbags by the millions every day, when the pain of loving them seems unbearable, the answer is NOT to stop loving, NOT to stop caring, NOT to add to the darkness. The answer is to love more, deeper, wider. To love despite the darkness and the pain. Indeed, to love because of it. To love those who need it most desperately, not only those we happen to like, to love because your love is profoundly, vitally needed, not because it is self-gratifying. To love as though life depended on it. It does.

Joanna Lucas
Source: Peaceful Prairie Blog
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There is no path to veganism; veganism is the way.

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[We] have to stop seeing them as "food" animals and start seeing them as fellow animals.

Stephanie Ernst
Source: http://animalrights.change.org/blog/view/cow_beaten_in_head_with_mallet_possibly_skinned_alive--not_cruelty_says_sheriff
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Vegetarianism is an act of the imagination. It reflects an ability to imagine alternatives to the texts of meat.

Carol Adams
Source: The Sexual Politics of Meat, p. 179
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How self-centered, how arrogant...  Imagine the awesome privilege of living in a society where you get to choose what you eat at each and every meal.  When I was a kid, I was a vegetarian and a vegan for long stretches… I was a commodity cheese-atarian.

Sherman Alexie
 
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Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our anti-materialist, otherworldly, New Age, spiritual types.  But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should be as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu, and seaweed slime.

Edward Paul Abbey : American writer & radical environmentalist
Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)
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Action IS theory. Veganism IS animal rights.

Elaine Vigneault
Source: The Vegan Ideal blog comment
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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 A. Edison

Thomas Alva Edison : American inventor & industrialist
Thomas Edison (1847 - 1931)
 
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The animals of the world exist for their own reasons.  They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

Alice Walker
 
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Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our anti-materialist, otherworldly, New Age, spiritual types.  But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should be as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu, and seaweed slime.

Edward Paul Abbey : American writer & radical environmentalist
Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)
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