{"quotes":[{"text":"It may be considered folly by common opinion but this refusal to destroy life unnecessarily, this reverence for it, must become a deeply implanted part of his ethical standard.","author":"Paul Brunton","tags":["ethics","nonviolence","vegetarianism"],"id":354,"author_id":"Paul+Brunton"},{"text":"Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening. Our sustenance now comes from misery. We know that if someone offers to show us a film on how our meat is produced, it will be a horror film. We perhaps know more than we care to admit, keeping it down in the dark places of our memory-- disavowed. When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.","author":"Jonathan Safran Foer","tags":["animals","factory-farming","meat","science","veganism","vegetarianism"],"id":5445,"author_id":"Jonathan+Safran+Foer"},{"text":"Love is at the heart of the world, just as it is at the heart of your life. Your relationships with your lover, your family, your friends, and the world around you define the quality of your emotional wholeness and reflect your relationship with yourself.","author":"Sebastian Pole","tags":["alternative-therapy","ayurveda","detox","health","healthy-living","herbal","herbs","stress-relief","vegetarianism","wellness","yoga"],"id":8338,"author_id":"Sebastian+Pole"},{"text":"I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.","author":"Henry David Thoreau","tags":["cannibalism","civilization","vegetarianism"],"id":23838,"author_id":"Henry+David+Thoreau"},{"text":"Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless. Christmas dinner's dark and blue. When you stop and try to see it From the turkey's point of view.Sunday dinner isn't sunny. Easter feasts are just bad luck. When you see it from the viewpoint of a chicken or a duck. Oh how I once loved tuna salad Pork and lobsters, lamb chops too Till I stopped and looked at dinner From the dinner's point of view.","author":"Shel Silverstein","tags":["empathy","food","food-for-thought","vegetarianism"],"id":26075,"author_id":"Shel+Silverstein"},{"text":"God loves and cares for creation and has the right to expect this loving care be replicated by humans. Creation exists, not for the glory of humanity, but for the glory of God. God has the right to see that earthly creatures are free to live according to their nature and without unnecessary abuse, exploitation, and pain, so that their lives can glorify their Creator.…[S]ince God values and cares for all creation, creation has a derived right to be valued and cared for by humans for God’s glory.","author":"Richard A. Young","tags":["animals","christianity","creation","god","vegetarianism"],"id":28087,"author_id":"Richard+A.+Young"},{"text":"As per the law of karma, that which is your meat today, this dear beloved animal will make mincemeat of you tomorrow. In another birth.","author":"Fakeer Ishavardas","tags":["afterlife-hereafter","animal-rights","animals-and-man","animals-love","good-and-evil","good-life-goodness","good-life","goodness","happiness-advice","karma-law","karma","karmic-debt","karmic-effects","life-and-living","life-lessons","living-your-best-life","metaphysical","metaphysical-truth-reality","non-violence","peace-of-mind","people-nature","philosophical-reflection","rebirth","spiritual-development","spiritual","spirituality","vegetarian","vegetarian-lifestyle","vegetarianism","wellness-evaluation-of-lifestyle","wellness-guru"],"id":38529,"author_id":"Fakeer+Ishavardas"},{"text":"We can’t talk about our own health without understanding our place in our environment, because in order to fulfill our potential we have to live in the context of our surroundings.We have to know our place in the ecosystem of which we are a part, and this means living 'consciously': being aware of nature and how it affects us and how we, in turn, affect nature.","author":"Sebastian Pole","tags":["alternative-therapy","ayurveda","detox","health","healthy-living","herbal","herbs","stress-relief","vegetarianism","wellness","yoga"],"id":49703,"author_id":"Sebastian+Pole"},{"text":"Through knowing death we can hold a beacon of love for every moment that has just passed, for every friend who has lost a friend, for every child who has lost a parent, for every parent who has lost a child; for any suffering anywhere.","author":"Sebastian Pole","tags":["alternative-therapy","ayurveda","detox","health","healthy-living","herbal","herbs","stress-relief","vegetarianism","wellness","yoga"],"id":59797,"author_id":"Sebastian+Pole"},{"text":"I remember one bobcat they had in here - now bobcats are an endangered species in this neck of the woods - they'd caught it somewhere and they must have put that cat through a dozen rounds of burn experiments before they finally determined that it was utterly useless to them. Like an empty beer can. And then you know what they did to it? Claudius was late for a lunch date so rather thanput the destroyed but still breathing animal to sleep, he picked it up by its hind legs and simply smashed its head against a wall repeatedly until it was dead. How can I forget it: I was the one told to clean up the mess. The head dented in. The eyes slowly closing. The once proud claws hanging down, stunned and lifeless, the utter senselessness of it all, and the hate, a hatred that was consummated in me which is as dangerous a hormone, or chemical, or portion of the brain, as any neutron bomb. Except that I didnt know how to explode. I was like a computer without a keyboard, a bird without wings. Roaring inside. I wanted to kill that man. To do unto others what they had done unto me. I was that bobcat, you better believe it.","author":"Michael Tobias","tags":["animal-cruelty","animal-rights","animal-testing","science","vegan","vegetarianism","vivisection"],"id":63518,"author_id":"Michael+Tobias"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":103,"pages":11,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}