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Thoughts On Nonviolence
VEGETARIAN QUOTES:
Genesis l:29 Behold I have given you herbyielding seed. To you it shall be for meat.
Quran: There is no beast on earth nor bird which flieth..but the same is a people like unto you. All God's creatures are God's family.
Isaiah: I delight not in your blood sacrifice.
Buddha: To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.
Bhagavad Gita: One is dearest to God who has no enemies among the living beings, who is nonviolent to all creatures. (Sanskrit word ahimsa means nonharm to all life)
Isaiah: He that slayeth an ox is as he that killeth a human. (for 40 or 50 quotes from the Bible go to the Spirit file no. 8)
Mahavira, founder of the Jain religion: May all that have life be delivered from suffering.
Siuh, Malaysian woman lab technician: If I follow Kwon Yin (Chinese Divine Mother Deity of Mercy) I guess I should become vegetarian.
Dr. Stephen Bratman's dietary guru: It is better to eat pizza with friends than to eat sprouts alone.
Oprah Winfrey, being sued by Amarillo cattle ranchers for saying: "I'm stopped. I'll never eat another burger". (paraphrased)
Harriet Beecher Stowe: We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred trust to us from our heavenly Father. They are dumb and cannot speak for themselves.
Ralph Nader on ABC re the 13 states with veggie libel laws (such as Texas Cattlemen's Beef Assn is trying to use against Oprah): These laws are designed to chill free speech.
Howard Lyman, former cattle rancher: (paraphrased from his appearances on more than l show) 100,000 cows in the U.S. are alive at night and dead in the morning. These cows on the ground are ground into feed, making their fellows not only carnivores but cannibals. Europe after Mad Cows' Disease has banned this practice. The U.S has not yet.
Leonardo Da Vinci: One day the world will look upon research upon animals as it now looks upon research on human beings.
Steven Spielberg screenwriter Koepp: Humans are the only hunters who kill when not hungry.
Lester Brown World Watch Inst. annual State of the World: Since 1950 demand for lumber (trees) has doubled. Fossil fuel consumption has quadrupled. China's desire for grain-fed beef.. (adds even more pressure)
Janet Barkas, editor of Grove Press: Once I was fishing and caught the hook in the fish's eye. That was the last time I ate a killed creature (paraphrased).
Morton Downey: Oprah has power because Oprah is believable. People do not believe the beef industry. Shouldn't we be concerned about the first amendment rather than protecting powerful agribusiness?
Carolyn O'Neil of CNN: Is this big bad beef against one of America's cultural heroes?
Mayor Koch, now Judge Koch: Tree killing is arborcide.
Bill O'Reilly of Fox TV: 27 states have outlawed corporal punishment on students. I taught in a rough school. I never thought I had to hit. (this point of view endorsed by the director of Memphis Bd. of Education)
Mrs. Greenthumb: Plant in the city.
Art Linkletter, 85 years young: I eat a lowfat diet, think positively, get exercise every day.
John Vidal, environment editor of the Guardian and author of McLibel publ by MacMillan: (paraphrased) This British judge's robe had ermine sleeves (ermine are trapped by causing their tongues to freeze to greased traps). (As the British have banned bearskin in palace guard hats and are working to abolish fox hunting, may they also remove ermine from judges' sleeves).
Questioner at Kissinger press conference: Can you comment on the statistic that were China to double its egg production the grain of 15 developing nations would be required?
Jeremy Rifkin of Beyond Beef: paraphrased: The world's environment can no longer handle beef.
KCBS helicopter pilot: The physical fitness man (paid by the meat lobby) would supposedly swim miles with a boat rope in his teeth.. jump out of the water in San Francisco and say "I owe it all to red meat". But I saw that he did not put the rope in his mouth until he was in sight of the shore.
Dr. SB: (paraphrased) Benedictine brother David Steindl-Rast taught me it is better once or twice to break a no ice-cream rule than to be selfrighteous.
John Denver: on the Larry King Show (paraphrased): Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them. the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.
Jim R: Hunters are to the arms industry what smokers are to the tobacco industry. Smokers get a nicotine rush. Hunters get an adrenalin rush from killing a living being. (This does not include those hunters who kill only to feed their families or themselves.)
Ali MacGraw: Cruelty to animals can become violence to humans. (HSUS psa)
Upton Sinclair in The Jungle (written after his investigation of Hormel in Austin Minnesota): The shriek was followed by another, louder and yet more agonizing..for once started upon that journey, the hog never came back. One by one the men hooked up the hogs and slit their throats. There was a line of hogs with squeals and lifeblood ebbing away.. until at last each vanished into a huge vat of boiling water (some still alive). The hogs were so innocent. They came so very trustingly. They were so very human in their protests. They had done nothing to deserve it.
Maynard Clark (info@vegetarian.org): Irradiation does not protect consumers from contaminated meat. It kills only selected pathogens. ..It does nothing to hardy pathogens such as the hepatitis virus or to those inside a large slab of meat or to those added during subsequent processing.
Fox News Jan 15th Kathy Wolff: A Univ of NC study linked hot dogs to childhood leukemia.
Buddhist phrenologist in an unsolicited reading of writer: Your short ear lobes indicate many lives as a carnivore.
Catherine Crier, former Texas prosecutor quoting Robin Williams: Hitchcock said he viewed actors as cattle.. but some were free range.
Pat Robertson who has quoted Isaiah 65 on 700 Club: Mercy trumps justice.
Dennis Weaver: 40 years ago on the set of Gunsmoke I read the book The Holy Science. Since then I have not eaten meat.
Semantha Eggar: paraphrased: Dr. Dolittle is a reluctant but dedicated vegetarian. Being around all the animals in the film made me one too.
Governor Jerry Brown of California, son of a former governor of California: Check out my web site, wtp.org, to see what fast food did to 2 people in England. (C Span: Dec 22nd) (or check http://www.McSpotlight.com)
Cleveland Amory on NPR Dec 4th: The National Park Service shot a mule in the face. He survived but had trouble swallowing and often food came out of his nose.
James Marcus: Jeff thought vegetarians were wimpy. (Perhaps he never saw weight lifter Andreas Cahling or Marine record breaker Captain Alan Jones.. or never tried to keep up with the swimming of Weissmuller)
Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet re zoo animals: Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage.
Prince Philip to McDonald's of Canada: So you are the people tearing down the Brazilian rainforest and breeding cattle. (according to a letter by the head of McKey's, McDonald's beef suppliers, about a 1983 cocktail party which the Prince attended)
Mrs. Booth and General Bramwell Booth of the Salvation Army (daughter in law and son of the founder of the SA): The awful cruelty and terror to which tens of thousands of animals killed for human food are subjected in traveling long distances by ship and rail and road to the slaughterhouses of the world.. God disapproves of all cruelty.. whether to man or beast. The occupation of slaughtering animals is brutalising to those who are required to do the work.... I believe this matter is well worthy of the serious consideration of Christian leaders.
Beastmaster to cobra: I mean you no harm.
Sun Bear and Jaya Bear: All creation has the same right to life.
