When I stopped eating meat, I noticed that it was easier for me to focus, and I was really proud of myself for being green also. ... I had a plethora of reasons for going vegetarian. I was eating meat and didn't know how it affected my health .... I just felt better and brighter and lighter, and I had more energy .... It was a big deal to me, being an animal lover, that I realised what I was eating, and I didn't separate myself from, say, my animals, my pets.
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Man can live without animal flesh; consequently the eating of this flesh is purely to gratify an appetite - and a perverted appetite at that. No normal appetite could possibly crave flesh of any kind. So that there is no possible excuse for the killing and eating of animals, than this - except, of course, ignorance. After all, that is the greatest factor! It is against this taking of life unnecessarily that the vegetarian protests...
Hereward Carrington
I became a vegetarian 3 years ago. ... The best thing about being a vegetarian for me, number one is I know I'm not harming any animals. ... The number two thing is increased strength. I'm a lot stronger than I was when I was eating meat. ... Most of your most powerful animals in the wild are vegetarian, so I'm trying to get my strength to that level. I don't know if I'll make it or not, but elephants are vegetarians. They're pretty big, so...
Michael Clarke Duncan
I've been a vegetarian for 14 years now, and a lot of the time I avoid going to restaurants. I eat at home. ... I've never had any desire to eat meat. In fact, when I was a kid I would have a really difficult time eating meat at all. It had to be the perfect bite, with no fat or gristle or bone or anything like that.... I don't judge people who eat meat-that's not for me to say-but the whole thing just sort of bums me out.
Tobey Maguire
There are no emergency meetings, no headlines, no breaking news. No one is acting as if we were in a crisis. Even most climate scientists or green politicians keep on flying around the world, eating meat and dairy. ... Today we use 100 million barrels of oil every single day. There are no politics to change that. There are no rules to keep that oil in the ground. So we can't save the world by playing by the rules. Because the rules have to be changed. Everything needs to change. And it has to start today.
Greta Thunberg
With all the wonderful vegetarian foods available today, it doesn't take a mentalist to realize that eating meat just doesn't make sense anymore. It's not healthy, it's devastating to our planet, and it means a cruel and painful death for literally billions of animals every year. So why not give vegetarianism a try? You will have a lot more energy, you can lose weight, and best of all you will know that you are creating a better world for all the animals that live here.
Owain Yeoman