Vegetarianism - Dual-Language Quotes That Speak to the Heart

You're joining us for dinner, I hope? asked his mom. She was small and brunette and vaguely mousy. I guess? I said. I have to be home by ten. Also I don't, um, eat meat? No problem. We'll vegetarianize some, she said. Animals are just too cute? Gus asked. I want to minimize the number of deaths I am responsible for, I said. Gus opened his mouth to respond but then stopped himself. — John Green The Fault in Our...

When we lift our forks, we hang our hats somewhere. We set ourselves in one relationship or another to farmed animals, farm-workers, national economies, and global markets. Not making a...

This isn't animal experimentation, where you an imagine some proportionate good at the other end of the suffering. This is what we feel like eating. Tell me something: Why is taste, the crudest of our...

Ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore -- "I'm easy; I'll eat anything" -- can appear more socially sensitive than the individual who tries to eat in a way that is good for society.

Empathy, he once had decided, must be limited to herbivores or anyhow omnivores who could depart from a meat diet. Because, ultimately, the empathic gift blurred the boundaries between hunter and victim, between the successful and the defeated. — Philip K. Dick Do Androids...

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