{"quotes":[{"text":"Ethically, she couldn't cause the suffering of any living thing. Logically, bacon cheeseburgers were delicious.","author":"Thomm Quackenbush","tags":["bacon","carnivore","ethical","ethics","food","hamburgers","suffering","vegetarian"],"id":224,"author_id":"Thomm+Quackenbush"},{"text":"This is the body's nurse; but since man's witFound the art of cookery, to delight his sense,More bodies are consumed and kill'd with itThan with the sword, famine, or pestilence.","author":"John Davies of Hereford","tags":["cooking","eating","famine","food","meat-is-murder","pestilence","sword","taste","vegan","vegetarian","war"],"id":11873,"author_id":"John+Davies+of+Hereford"},{"text":"She was not a vegetarian and knew firsthand animals had to die for her delectation, but she never liked to think about it.","author":"Thomm Quackenbush","tags":["animals","carnivore","death","eating","vegetarian"],"id":33605,"author_id":"Thomm+Quackenbush"},{"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":"Cats were not and are not tool makers the way humans became toolmakers. They are specifically adapted as obligate carnivores, This means the vegetarian cat is an oxymoron at best and a blatant lie at worst. Cats need meat. The concept of a Garden of Eden would be rather atrocious to them.","author":"Leviak B. Kelly","tags":["carnivores","cats","garden-of-eden","oxymoron","vegetarian"],"id":44146,"author_id":"Leviak+B.+Kelly"},{"text":"I'll stop eating steak when you stop killing spiders.' Absurdity: comparing cows to spiders. Arachnids are pure evil. They're like a cigarette manufacturer or a terrorist. They're organized religion on eight legs.","author":"Davey Havok","tags":["arachnid","arachnids","bugs","cows","death","debate","insects","meat","murder","religion","spider","spiders","steak","vegan","vegetarian"],"id":51261,"author_id":"Davey+Havok"},{"text":"Why don't you like the foods I like?' he asks sometimes. 'Why don't you like the foods I make?' I answer.","author":"Lydia Davis","tags":["chef","cooking","cuisine","diet","food","foods","taste","vegan","vegetarian"],"id":51925,"author_id":"Lydia+Davis"},{"text":"No animals needs to die in order for me to live. And that makes me feel good.","author":"Howard Lyman","tags":["compassion","inspirational","vegan","veganism","vegetarian"],"id":54191,"author_id":"Howard+Lyman"},{"text":"I asked a girl once why she was vegetarian. I said, is it because you love animals? And she replied, no it's because I had plants. To that I said, don't ever let someone take you to see the Palace Gardens- you'd both end up in jail.","author":"Kelly Batten","tags":["animals","gardens","plants","vegetarian"],"id":55831,"author_id":"Kelly+Batten"},{"text":"It is a federal system of sadistic torture, vivisection, and animal genocide, which has been carried on for decades under the fraudulent guise of respectable medical research. And nobody on the outside knows, or wants to know, or is willing to find out. My parents, my friends, my teachers, wouldnt listen to me, or suggested that if it was bothering me that much I just had to quit the job. Just like that. As if that would have solved anything. As if I could ever live with such cowardice. You can't imagine, or maybe you can, how many people are convinced - without knowing the first thing about it - Animal research is essential. Americans have been hopelessly brainwashed on this issue. The animal rights people, by and large, acknowledge the essential futility of trying to change the system. So they address the smaller issues, fighting for legislation which would provide one extra visit per week to the labs by a custodian of the US dept of agriculture. Or demanding that a squirrel monkey be given an extra 12 square inches in his holding pen, before being led to the slaughter. That sort of thing. For whomever, and whatever it's worth, I hope my little write up is clear. I dont have the guts to do whats necessary. I pray there's someone out there who does. God help all of us.","author":"Michael Tobias","tags":["animal-liberation","animal-rights","animal-testing","ethical-living","science","vegan","vegetarian","vivisection"],"id":58943,"author_id":"Michael+Tobias"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":68,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}