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Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere.

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Eating meat is a leftover of the greatest brutality [killing]; the transition to vegetarianism is the first and most natural consequence of enlightenment.

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As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.

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By all that is sacred in our hope for the human race, I conjure those who love happiness and truth to give a fair trial to the vegetable system!

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I, however, cannot force myself to use "meat drugs" to cheat on my loneliness.

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It may indeed be doubted whether butchers' meet is anywhere a necessary of life. Grain and other vegetables, with the help of milk, cheese, and butter, or oil where butter is not to be had, afford the most plentiful, the most wholesome, the most nourishing, and the most invigorating diet. Decency nowhere requires that any man should eat butchers' meat.

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How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?

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It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery.

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I know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten, and who never has a chance to be a real being, is unhealthy. It's like...you're just eating misery. You're eating a bitter life.

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The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

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vegetarianism is the taproot of humanitarianism.

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To avoid causing terror to living beings, let the disciple refrain from eating meat.

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You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

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I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

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We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?

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But ...meat eating in any form, in any manner, and in any place is unconditionally and once and for all prohibited ...Meat eating I have not permitted to anyone, I do not permit, I will not permit.

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