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"Let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed."
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"I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it."
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"I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to support any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life"
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"I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals."
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"If you declare that you are naturally designed for such a diet, then first kill for yourself what you want to eat. Do it, however, only through your own resources, unaided by cleaver or cudgel or any kind of ax"
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"When about 16 Years of Age, I happened to meet with a Book written by one Tryon, recommending a Vegetable Diet. I determined to go into it.... My refusing to eat Flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity."
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"To avoid causing terror to living beings, let the disciple refrain from eating meat... the food of the wise is that which is consumed by the sadhus [holymen]; it does not consist of meat... There may be some foolish people in the future who will say that I permitted meat-eating and that I partook of meat myself, but... meat-eating I have not permitted to anyone, I do not permit, I will not permit meat-eating in any form, in any manner and in any place; it is unconditionally prohibited for all."
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"One who, while seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other living beings who also desire happinesss, will not find happiness hereafter."
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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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"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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"Vegetarianism is a healthier diet."
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"A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats."
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"Personally, I don't think pure vegetarianism is a healthy lifestyle. I've often wondered to myself: Does a vegetarian look forward to dinner, ever?"
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