Friday, January 3, 2025

You Are What You Eat

When we eat factory-farmed animals we live,
literally, on tortured flesh.
Increasingly, that tortured flesh
is becoming our own.

Jonathan Safran Foer


Whatever you do comes back
much more forceful than you send it out.

Willie Nelson


I do feel that spiritual progress does demand...
that we should cease to kill our fellow
creatures for the satisfaction
of our bodily wants.

Mahatma Gandhi


I refuse to eat animals because
I cannot nourish myself by the sufferings
and by the death of other creatures.
I refuse to do so, because I suffered
so painfully myself that I can feel
the pains of others by recalling
my own sufferings.

Edgar Kupfer-Koberwitz


The earth affords a lavish supply of richess
of innocent foods, and offers you banquets
that involve no bloodshed or slaughter.

Pythagoras


Worthless people live to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink to live.

Socrates


Veganism has given me a higher level of
awareness and spirituality, primary because
the energy associated with eating has shifted...
by putting things into your body that violate
its spirit, it will be difficult not to perpetuate
that violence onto someone else.

Dexter Scott King


The basis of all animal rights should be
the Golden Rule: we should treat them as we
would wish them to treat us, were any
other species in our dominant position.

Christine Stevens


To feed on death is to become food for death.
To live by other's pain is to become a prey
for pain. So has decreed the omni-will.
Know that and choose your course.

Mikhail Naimy


They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.
Friedrich Nietzsche


The thinking person must oppose all
cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted
in tradition and surrounded by a halo.
When we have a choice, we must avoid
bringing torment and injury
into the life of another.

Albert Schweitzer


The eating of animals extinguishes
the seed of great compassion.

Buddha

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