Rita, Arte, Musica, Cinema, Literatura, Animais, ANIMAL LIBERATION, Mother Nature, Vegetarianismo/VEGANISMO, Veggiburgers, Arvores, Linda McCartney vegetarian sausages, Fanstasy, Dinossaurs, Cryptozoology, mulheres variadas, filosofar, deambular pelo mundo, os 7 mares, as 7 terras e os 7 ventos, miles, iris, kitty, misty, dizzy e outras coisas interessantes...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... All wholsom food is caught without a net or a trap. - WILLIAM BLAKE The diet of individuals corresponds closely to their manners. Blood demands blood. - ELISEE RECLUS taking away the lives of animals, in order to convert them into food, does great violence to the principles of benevolence and compassion. - DAVID HARTLEY we feed on babes, though not our own; and the slaughter-house resounds daily with screams of pain and fear. - ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Por tudo o que eh sagrado em nossas esperancas pela humanidade, conclamo que aqueles que desejam o bem-estar da humanidade e amam a verdade a examinarem, sem perconceito, os ensinamentos do vegetarianismo - Percy Bysshe Shelley ..............................................................................................................................................A estrutura do homem, externa e interna, comparada com a de outros animais, mostra-nos que as frutas e os vegetais soculentos constituem a sua alimentacao natural. - Lineu ..................................................................................................................................... Ai! porque os homens adquririram por fim o habito de nos comer, em vez de conversar e se instruir conosco. Esses barbaros! Nao deviam estar convencidos de que, tendo os mesmos orgaos que eles, os mesmos sentimentos, as mesmas necessidades, os mesmos desejos, tinhamos o que se chama uma alma, exatamente como eles, que eramos irmaos deles? E somos de tal modo seus irmaos, que o grande ser, o eterno e criador, quando fez um pacto com os homens, nos incluiu expressamente no tratado. Ele proibiu que os homens se alimentassem de nosso sangue e a nos que sugassemos o sangue deles. (...). verdade que ha entre voces muitas mulheres que continuam falando com seus caes; mas estes resolveram nao responder, desde que os forcaram, a chicotadas, a ir a caca e tornar-se complices da matanca de nossos velhos amigos comuns, os cervos, os gamos, as lebres e as perdizes. (...)Os homens que se alimentam de carne e tomam bebidas fortes tem todos um sangue azedo e ardente que os torna loucos de mil maneiras diferentes. Sua principal demencia eh o furor em derramar o sangue de seus irmaos e devastar as planicies ferteis para reinarem sobre cemiterios - Voltaire ................................................................................................................................. To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of men. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime. That alone is the justification of all that men may suffer. It cries vengeance upon God. If there exists a good God, then even the most humble of living things must be saved. If God is good only to the strong, if there is no justice for the weak and lowly, for the poor creatures who are offered up as a sacrifice to humanity, then there is no such thing as goodness, no such thing as justice - Romain Rolland ............................................................................................................................... Next to the ridicule of denying an evident truth, is that of taking much pains to defend it; and no truth appears to me more evident, than that beasts are endow'd with thought and reason as well as men. The arguments are in this case so obvious, that they never escape the most stupid and ignorant - David Hume ..................................................................................................................... My object in this chapter is to show that there is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties. . . The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness and misery. Happiness is never better exhibited than by young animals, such as puppies, kittens, lambs, etc - Charles Darwin ..................................................................................................................... After reading Lappe, I wondered how I could claim to care about the environment, how I could claim to care about global poverty, if I kept eating meat, dairy products, and eggs. (...)Its amazing how many seemingly intelligent people, to justify their meat-eating, open their mouths, point at their teeth, and say something about canines as a means of defending a habit that is ecologically devastating, cruel to animals, and likely to kill them. Leaving aside how different human canines are from the canine teeth of carnivores (I really wonder if these people have ever even looked at the long, dagger-like canines of a dog or tiger), every natural carnivore has an array of other physiological properties that do not mirror ours. (...) But lets also think about natural behaviors. How many of us salivate at the idea of chasing a small animal, ripping her limb from limb, and then devouring her, blood and all? I hope that no one listening has that reaction, but every carnivore does. How many of us, if were walking down the street and see an animal carcass on the road, think, Mmmmmm ... Id like to eat that!? (...)Dr. Campbells studies have shown tha the vast majority of all cancers, cardiovascular diseases, and other forms of degenerative illness can be prevented simply by adopting a plant-based diet(...) Again, prejudice is prejudice, whether it is based on race or gender or religion or on species. In each case, a line is drawn, separating those in the group above the line from those in the group below the line. Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, who fled Nazi-occupied Poland, called species bias the purest form of racism and animal rights the purest form of justice advocacy, because animals are the most vulnerable of all the downtrodden. He felt that mistreating animals is the epitome of the might makes right moral paradigm a moral paradigm that is ethically bankrupt. (http://www.goveg.com/veganism.asp) - Bruce Friedrich ........................................................................................... Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. (...) Yet so vain is man, and so blinded by his vanity, that no writer, up to the very end of the nineteenth century, expressed any idea that intelligent life might have developed there far, or indeed at all, beyond its earthly level.(...)And we men, the creatures who inhabit this earth, must be to them at least as alien and lowly as are the monkeys and lemurs to us.(...)Their world is far gone in its cooling and this world is still crowded with life, but crowded only with what they regard as inferior animals.(...) And before we judge of them too harshly we must remember what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has wrought, not only upon animals, such as the vanished bison and the dodo, but upon its inferior races. The Tasmanians, in spite of their human likeness, were entirely swept out of existence in a war of extermination waged by European immigrants, in the space of fifty years. Are we such apostles of mercy as to complain if the Martians warred in the same spirit? - The War of the Worlds, Chapter One , H. G. Wells ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Espectaculo de eras barbaras, que a civilizacao, desenvolvendo-se gradualmente por alguns seculos, ainda nao pode desterrar da Peninsula, e que nos conserva na fronte o estigma dos barbaros, embora tenhamos procurado esconder esse estigma debaixo dos ouropeis e pompas de arte moderna e pleitear a nossa vergonhosa causa perante o tribunal da opiniao da Europa com sofismas pueris e ineptos. - Alexandre Herculano , sobre as toradas em

Favorite Music

uma das objeçöes frequentemente levantadas contra o vegetarianismo é a de que ele é uma bela teoria, mas cuja aplicaçäo é impossível, já que se supoe que um homem nao pode viver sem devorar carne morta. Esta objeçao é irracional, e é fundamentada na ignorância ou na perversao dos fatos. Eu mesmo sou um exemplo de sua falsidade, pois tenho vivido sem a poluiçäo da alimentaçao carnívora — nem gado, peixe ou ave — pelos últimos trinta e oito anos, e nao só sobrevivi, mas tenho tido durante todo este tempo uma saúde extraordinariamente boa. Nem sou de modo algum especial nisso, pois conheço milhares de outros que têm feito a mesma coisa. Conheço alguns jovens que têm sido felicíssimos de nao serem poluídos pelo comer carne durante todas as suas vidas; e sao nítidamente mais livres de doenças do que aqueles que o fazem. [...] As delicadas senhoras que devoram bifes sangrentos gostariam de ver seus filhos trabalhando como carniceiros? Se nao, entao elas nao têm o direito de incumbir desta tarefa algum filho de outra mulher. Nao temos o direito de impor sobre um cidadao um trabalho que nós mesmos declinaríamos de fazer. - C. W. Leadbeater .......... Vivaldi, Bach, MOZART, Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Grieg, Tschaikowsky, Chopin, Satie, Debussy, RAVEL, Thomas Pitfield, Rachmaninov, Gustav Holst, Eugen d’Albert, Bartok, Samuel Barber, Gustav Mahler, Gershwin, Percy Grainger, Nicolo Paganini, Richard Wagner, Granados, Satie, Prokofiev, Mussorgsky, Kodaly, Copland, Cyril Scott, Franz Liszt, Scott Joplin, Yashushi Akutagawa, Hashimoto, Akira Ifukube, Steiner (The Adventures of Mark Twain), Shostakovich, Ginastera, Yehudi Menuhin, Michael Nyman, Philip Glass, Ravi Shankar, Tatum, Dizzy Gillespie, Horace Silver, Herbie Hancock, B.Cobham, Sly Stone, Roy Ayers, Marvin Gaye, MILES DAVIS, John Colrane, THE BEATLES, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Bob Dylan, Blood Sweat & Tears, Hendrix, Led Zepplin, Leonard Cohen, Queen, Santana, BOB MARLEY, PRINCE, FUNKADELIC, Larry Graham, Living Color, Red Hot Chili Peppers, No Doubt, Bryan Adams, Us3, Alicia Keys, Andre 3000, Common, Wu-Tang Clan, Digital Underground, Boogie Down Productions, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Di Melo, Marcos Valle, Maceo Parker, Stevie Wonder, The Smiths, Ani DiFranco, The Roots, Paul McCartney, Rollins Stones, George Harrison, John Lennon, Little Richard, B.B.King, etc FAVORITE SONGS: Michelle- The Beatles, I Want You- Bob Dylan, Das Lied der Trennung, Kv 519- Mozart, Pimpers Paradise- Bob Marley, Jealous Guy- John Lennon, Water Sign- Parliament, She's Always in my Hair- Prince, I'm Going Slightly Mad- Queen, Trilogy- Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Heaven on their minds - (Rice/Webber) from Jesus Christ Superstar, etc FAVORITE ALBUNS: Big Fun/ Filles de Kilimanjaro/Aura - Miles Davis, A Love Supreme- John Coltrane, Around the World in a Day- Prince, 1962-1966/1967-1970- The Beatles, Blonde on Blonde- Bob Dylan, HAIR - The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical, Jesus Christ Superstar - Webber/ Rice, Exodus- Bob Marley, Hand on the Tourch- Us3, Electric Circus- COMMON, Let's take it to the Stage- Funkadelic, The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein- Parliament, Trilogy- Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Previsao do Tempo- Marcos Valle, The Planets- Gustav Holst, Strng Quartets- W.A.Mozart, The Masterworks- Beethoven, Jazz Classics 1 & 2, Spirit of Funk 2, Soul of Brazil, etc... Videoclip preferido: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1282796533661048967

Favorite Movies

EARTHLINGS (www.earthlings.com), ZEITGEIST (www.zeitgeistmovie.com), Fast Food Nation (by Richard Linklater), Star Wars, The Lord of the Rigs-extended version, King Kong- Peter Jackson, The Prestige, Equilibrium, Citizin Kaine, Fantasia, Fantasia 2000, Lion King, Johnny Appleseed (Disney), Nigthmare before Christmas, Braveheart, Dances with Wolfes, Indiana Jones, Willow, Gandhi, Milk, Clash of the Titans, Roger Rabbit, Minority Report, Hook, Amadeus, The Gods Must Be Crazy, Death poets society, The Ninth Gate, The Pianist, The Village, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The English Patient, Shakespeare in love, There will be blood, Jesus Christ Superstar, Cidade de Deus porra! Clint Eastwood, Woody Allen and Tim Burton movies...

Favorite TV Shows

seinfeld, fresh prince of bell air, Mr. Bean, Gato Fedorento, the storyteller, Twilight Zone, x-files, Lost, programas culturais, ... (nao costumo ver muita televisao, ainda por cima da quase so merda...)

Favorite Books

Ja sou mestre de Sexo Tantrico- e Agora???,
A Princesa da Babilonia - VOLTAIRE,
Enemies A Love Story - Isaac Bashevis Singer,
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, compiled and edited by Jean Paul Richter,
Franz Kafka - Max Brod,
The Dragons of Eden - Carl Sagan,
The Da Vinci Code,
Perfume,
The Last Unicorn - Peter Beagle, Neverending Story/Momo- Ende,
The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka,
Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain,
Antoni Gaudi - Obra Completa,
Ensaio sobre a Cegueira - Jose Saramago
Pygmalion (George Bernard Shaw),
The Lifes of Animals (J.M. Coetzee),
The Ethics of Diet: A Catena of Authorities Deprecatory of the Practice of Flesh-Eating - Howard Williams and Carol J.Adams (Pythagoras, Plato, Hesiod, Seneca, Ovid, Thomas More, Montaigne, Gassendi, Evelyn, Cheyne, Palley, Newton, Mandeville, Ray, Pope, Milton, Voltaire, Gay, Swedenborg, Wesley, Rousseau, Linne, Shelley, Oswald, Graham, Byron, Lamartine, Michelet, Bentham, Sinclair, Schopenhauer, Thoreau, etc),
Animal Liberation (Peter Singer),
A vindication of Natural Diet - Percy Bysshe Shelley,
The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of Vegetarianism from 1600 to Modern Times - Tristram Stuart,
Vegetarianism in Australia, 1788 to 1948 - Edgar Crook,
Vegetarian America - Iacobbo & Iacobbo
Vincent & Van gogh,
O Hobbit (Tolkien),
A Friend of Kafka - Isaac Bashevis Singer,
Ronia filha de ladrao (Astrid Lindgren),
O Cavaleiro da Dinamarca,
The Mortal Immortal: Supernatural Short Fiction (Mary Shelley),
A Fuga de Wang-Fo - Marguerite Yourcenar,
The Book of Imaginary Beings (Jorge Luis Borges),
Myths, Gods and Fantasy (Pamela Allardice),
The Age of Fable - Thomas Bulfinch,
Os Maias,
Fedon (Platao),
Os Contos de Grimm,
Os Contos de Andersen,
Os Mais Belos Contos de Fadas,
As 1001 Noites,
Livros de Arte,
Livros de Mitologia,
Livros sobre Monstros e Criaturas Mitologicas estranhas,
Enciclopedias,
Asterix,
Gon,
Calvin & Hobbes
e outras B.D's giras,
Krishnamurti,
C.S. Lewis,
Bocage,
Alexandre Herculano,
Camoes,
...e outros livros que foram e que serao..

www.animalrightshistory.org
www.animal-rights-library.com
www.ivu.org/history/museum.html

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
- Rainer Maria Rilke

The butcher with his bloody apron incites bloodshed, murder. Why not? From cutting the throat of a young calf to cutting the throat of our brothers and sisters is but a step. While we are ourselves the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal conditions on the earth?
- ISADORA DUNCAN

If we each had to butcher our own meat, there would be a great increase in the number of vegetarians.
- ERNEST HOWARD CROSBY

As human sacrifices were a natural effect of that superstitious cruelty which first produced the slaughter of animals, so is it equally natural that those accustomed to eat the brute, should not long abstain from the man : more especially as; when toasted or broiled on the altar, the appearance, savour, and taste of both would be nearly, if not entirely, the same.
- JOSEPH RITSON

A man who daily sees Cows and Calves slaughtered, or who kills them himself, Hogs ‘stuck,’ Hens plucked or Geese roasted alive, &c., cannot possibly retain any true feeling for the sufferings of his own species. […]
But even those who take no part in killing, nay, do not even see it, are conscious that the flesh-dishes upon their tables come from the Shambles, and that their feasting and the suffering of others are in intimate connection. Doubtless, the majority of flesh-eaters do not reflect upon the manner in which this food comes to them, but this thoughtlessness, far from being a virtue, is the parent of many vices.
- GUSTAV STRUVE

Many of the difficulties which the flesh-eater today propounds to the vegetarian are the same, mutatis mutandis, as those which have at various times been cast in the teeth of the reformer by apologists of every cruel and iniquitous custom, from slave holding to the suttee.
- Henry Stephens Salt, The Logic of Vegetarianism, 1906

Let me introduce you, gentleman. You are blood relations, I think, and should have much to say to each other. The Kerophagist – the Anthropophagist.
- Henry Stephens Salt, The Logic of Vegetarianism, 1906

"E se a subtileza de uma gula sanguinolenta incorrigível quiser distinguir entre piedade e necessidade, fazendo entrar o carnivorismo no rol das crueldades indispensáveis à vida humana, não deixaremos de lhe lembrar que também a pena de morte e a tortura foram indispensáveis à boa ordem e à saúde das sociedades e tinham atrás de si um arsenal de justificações, qual delas a mais poderosa, e todas tão lógicas e científicas como é científica e lógica a defesa actual dos matadouros e açougues municipais e domésticos."
- Jaime de Magalhães Lima

Favorite Quote

Nós matamos o tempo mas ele enterra-nos.
- Machado de Assis

I do agree that continued global population growth will eventually bring disaster.
- Peter Singer

I have never eaten meat in my life, and I'm 5 foot 10 and not exactly wasting away.
- Joss Stone

The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion of good sense and of the good medium was certainly that people ought not to burn too large a number of heretics; extreme and unreasonable opinion obviously demanded that they should burn none at all.
- Maurice Maeterlinck

Thousands of people who say they 'love' animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been utterly deprived of everything that could make their lives worth living and who endured the awful suffering and the terror of the abattoirs.
- JANE GOODALL, The Ten Trusts

There is not a single argument nor a single fact that can be offered in favour of flesh eating that cannot be offered, with equal strength, in favour of cannibalism.
- Herbert Shelton

He who has ever turned with abhorrence from the skeleton of a beast which has been picked whole by birds or vermin, must confess that habit alone could have enabled him to endure the sight of the mangled bones and flesh of a dead carcase which every day cover his table.
- John Hawkesworth, edition of Swift’s Works

Consider the biggest animals on the planet: elephants, and buffaloes, and giraffes. These are vegetarian animals. They grow to thousands of pounds of muscle and bone without ever eating cheeseburgers and pepperoni pizzas.
- Michael Klaper, M.D.

If eating meat why not eat the most highly organised form of meat, which is not beef or mutton, but human flesh? If you still believe in the eating of flesh, then you must admit that at least as far as the fitness of food is concerned the cannibal has the best of the argument.
- Ha'nish Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha'nish, Mazdaznan Dietetics and Cookery Book, 1913

The Animals, you say, were “sent” For man’s free use and nutriment. Pray, then, inform me, and be candid, Why came they aeons before man did, To spend long centuries on earth Awaiting their Devourer’s birth? Those ill-timed chattels, sent from Heaven, Were, sure, the maddest gift e’er given – “Sent” for man’s use (can man believe it?) When there was no man to receive it!
- Henry Stephens Salt

So then Mom decided my father ought to do a vegan diet, too. Well, my father grew up on a cattle ranch, but the nice thing is, my dad’s been sitting at the same dinner table for fifty-one years, and he can’t find his way around the kitchen! He’s been reying my Mom for fifty-one years to put the plate in front of him. So Mom went to the local health food store and bought hot dogs that are called “Not Dogs” and veggie burgers – which used to taste like cardboard, but now they’re really good. She can get Canadian bacon made of a wheat derivative. It’s all vegetarian. Instead of cow’s milk, it’s soy milk, rice milk, fake eggs – all that stuff! Dad just keeps cleaning his plate. Now I’ve got two vegetarian parents, and only one of them know it!
- Neal Barnard, M. D,

A pitiful fellow! Such a ridiculous kind of pity his, as those silly souls have, who would not kill an innocent chicken for the world; but when killed to their hands, are always the most greedy devourers of it.
- SAMUEL RICHARDSON, Clarissa

Strange contrariety of conduct! They pity, and they eat the objects of their compassion!
- OLIVER GOLDMITH

Some People are not to be perswaded to taste of any Creatures they have daily seen and been acquainted with, whilst they were alive; others extend their scruple no further than to their own Poultry, and refuse to eat what they fed and took care of themselves, yet all of them will feed heartily and without Remorse on Beef, Mutton and Fowls, when they are bought in the Market.
- BERNARD MANDEVILLE

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.
In their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.
I can never accept inconsistency or injustice. Even if it comes from God. If there would come a voice from God saying, "I'm against vegetarianism!" I would say, "Well, I am for it!" This is how strongly I feel in this regard.
- ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER

The French have already discovered that the blackness of the skin is no reason why a human being should be abandoned without redress to the caprice of a tormentor. It may come one day to be recognized, that the number of the legs, the villosity of the skin, or the termination of the os sacrum, are reasons equally insufficient for abandoning a sensitive being to the same fate. What else is it that should trace the insuperable line? Is it the faculty of reason, or, perhaps, the faculty of discourse? But a full-grown horse or dog is beyond comparison a more rational, as well as a more conversable animal, than an infant of a day, or a week, or even a month, old. But suppose the case were otherwise, what would it avail? the question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?
- JEREMY BENTHAM

With respect to animal diet, let it be considered, that taking away the lives of animals, in order to convert them into food, does great violence to the principles of benevolence and compassion.
- DAVID HARTLEY

We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do.
- RABINADRANATH TAGORE

Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.
- ALEXANDRE POPE

It is certainly preferable to raise vegetables, and I think, therefore, that vegetarianism is a commendable departure from the established barbarious habit. That we can subsist on plant food and perform our work even to advantage is not a theory, but a well-demonstrated fact. Many races living almost exclusively on vegetables are of superior physique and strength. There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical and mental performance. [...] In view of these facts every effort should be made to stop the wanton and cruel slaughter of animals, which must be destructive to our morals.
- NIKOLA TESLA

O impudence of power and might,/ Thus to condemn a hawk or kite,/When thou, perhaps, carniv'rous sinner,/Hadst pullets yesterday for dinner!
- JOHN GAY

Simply let those, like him of Samos, live! / Let herbs to them a bloodless banquet give. / In beechen goblets let their beverage shine, / Cool from the crystal spring their sober wine! / Their youth should pass in innocence secure / From stain licentious, and in manners pure.
- JOHN MILTON

The table was well spread with all manner of fruit, beans, greenstuff and good pies...but of flesh and fish there was never a sign.
- SHMUEL YOSEF AGNON

The destruction of animals for food, in its details and tendencies, involves so much cruelty as to cause every reflecting individual – not destitude of the ordinary sensibilities of nature – to shudder.
- WILLIAM A. ALCOTT

Grant animals a ray of reason, imagine what a frightful nightmare the world is to them: a dream of cold-blooded men, blind and deaf, cutting their throats, slitting them open, gutting them, cutting them into pieces, cooking them alive, sometimes laughing at them and their contortions as they writhe in agony. Is there anything more atrocious among the cannibals of Africa? To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of men. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous.—And that is the unpardonable crime.
- ROMAIN ROLLAND

Opposers of compassion urge: 'If we should live on vegetable food, what shall we do with our cattle? What would become of them? They would grow so numerous they would be prejudicial to us - they would eat us up if we did not kill and eat them!' But there is abundance of animals in the world whom men do not kill and eat; and yet we hear not of their injuring mankind, and sufficient room is found for their abode. Horses are not usually killed to be eaten, and yet we have not heard of any country overstocked with them. [...] Because some [animals] have no compassion, feeling, or reason, are we to possess no compassion, feeling, or reason?"
- GEORGE NICHOLSON

To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify luxury and tickle callous and rank organs, must require a rocky heart, and a great degree of cruelty and ferocity. I cannot find any great difference between feeding on human flesh and feeding on [other] animal flesh, except custom and practice.
- GEORGE CHEYNE

In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughter-houses. And, in a population that is all educated, and at about the same level of physical refinement, it is practically impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig. We never settled the hygienic question of meat-eating at all. This other aspect decided us. I can still remember, as a boy, the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughter-house.
- H. G. WELLS

The peoples living upon vegetable foods, are, of all men, the handsomest, the most vigorous, the least exposed to diseases and to passions, and they whose lives last longest
– BERNARDIN DE SAINT-PIERRE

This species of food [fruits and farinacea] is that which is most suited to man...
– CARL LINNAEUS

There is no doubt, that man is not built to be a carnivorous animal. What a sweet, pleasing and innocent sight is the spectacle of a table served that way and what a difference to a make up of fuming animal meat, slaughtered and dead! Man in no way has the constitution of a carnivorous being. Hunt and voracity are unnatural to him. Man has neither the sharp pointed teeth or claws to slaughter his prey. On the contrary his hands are made to pick fruits, berries and vegetables and teeth appropriate to chew them
- JOHN RAY

I do not like eating meat because I have seen lambs and pigs killed. I saw and felt their pain. They felt the approaching death. I could not bear it. I cried like a child. I ran up a hill and could not breathe. I felt that I was choking. I felt the death of the lamb.
- VASLAV NIJINSKY

Cruelty stares at me from the butcher’s face. I tread amidst carcasses. I am in the presence of the slain. The death-set eyes of beasts peer at me and accuse me of belonging to the race of murderers.
- AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT

Aqueles que se recusam a ser chamados a razao, sao intolerantes; aqueles que nao conseguem, sao idiotas; e aqueles que nao se atrevem, sao escravos.
- LORD BYRON

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
-MAHATMA GANDHI

Que o defensor do alimento animal, cm recomenda Plutarco, rasgue 1 carneiro vivo c seus dentes. so entao, estaria sendo consistente.
-PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

I look my age. It is the other people who look older than they are. What can you expect from people who eat corpses?
It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.
Animals are my friends and I don't eat my friends.
Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.
-GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields.
- LEO TOLSTOY

He who abstains from anything animate ... will be much more careful not to injure those of his own species.
- PORPHYRY

For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.
- PHYTAGORAS

All cruelty springs from weakness.
- SENECA

It is not a digression to mention the horrors of war in connection with the massacre of cattle and carnivorous banquets. The diet of individuals corresponds closely to their manners. Blood demands blood.
- ELISEE RECLUS

After they had accustomed themselves at Rome to the spectacles of the slaughter of animals, they proceeded to those of the slaughter of men.
- MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Meat is for beasts to feed on.
- OVID

Duas estradas divergiam num bosque e eu segui pela menos usada. Isso fez toda a diferenca.
- Robert Frost

Faz parte do destino da raca humana na sua evolucao gradual, parar de comer animais, tal como as tribos selvagens deixaram de se comer umas as outras quando entraram em contacto com os mais civilizados.
- HENRY DAVID THOUREAU

Toda a verdade passa por 3 fases: primeiro e ridicularizada, depois, violentamente combatida e finalmente e aceite como evidente.
- ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.
- MAHATMA GANDHI

Geralmente as pessoas usam como desculpa para continuar a comer carne, o facto de que os humanos sempre comeram carne. De acordo com essa logica, nao deveriamos tentar prevenir pessoas de assassinarem outras, ja que esse comportamento tambem acontece desde as eras mais longinquas.
- ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER

Esse direito so nos parece natural porque quem esta no topo da hierarquia somos nos. Bastava que entrasse mais outro parceiro no jogo, por exemplo um visitante vindo de outro planeta cujo Deus tivesse dito - Tu reinaras sobre as criaturas de todas as outras estrelas- , para que toda a evidencia do Genese ficasse logo posta em questao. Talvez depois de um marciano o ter atrelado a uma charrua ou enquanto estivesse a assar no espeto de um habitante da Via Lactea, o homem se lembrasse das costeletas de vitela que costumava comer e apresentasse (tarde demais) as suas desculpas a vaca.
- MILAN KUNDERA

All creatures exist for their own reasons. The animals of the world were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.
- ALICE WALKER

Por um pouco de carne, privamo-los do sol, da luz e da vida a qual tem direito.
- PLUTARCO

O erro da etica ate o momento tem sido a crenca de que so se deva aplica-la em relacao aos homens.
- ALBERT SCHWEITZER

Sempre me pareceu que o Homem nao nasceu para ser um carnivoro.
- ALBERT EINSTEIN

Viver sem causar sofrimento ou morte a outros significa nao matar um ser humano nem qualquer animal, por desporto ou para sustento.
- KRISHNAMURTI

Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren.
Strange spectacle! To see a mother giving her daughter, whom but yesterday she was suckling at her breast, this gross aliment of bloody meats!
- JULES MICHELET

Enquanto estivermos matando e torturando animais, vamos continuar a torturar e a matar seres humanos - vamos ter guerra. Matar precisa ser ensaiado e aprendido em pequena escala.
- EDGARR KUPFER-KOBERRWITZ

Vira 1 dia em que vamos olhar para tras e dizer: Meu Deus, acreditas que no seculo XX e no principio do seculo XXI, as pessoas ainda comiam animais?
- MARY TYLER MOORE

The time will come in the world’s history, and a movement is setting in that direction even now, when it will be deemed as strange a thing to find a man or a woman who eats flesh as food, as it is now to find a man or woman who refrains from eating it.
- Ralph Waldo Trine (1866-1958)

Os animais que voce come nao sao aqueles que devoram outros, voce nao come as bestas carnivoras, voce as toma como padrao. Voce so sente fome pelas criaturas doces e gentis que nao ferem ninguem, que o seguem, o servem, e que sao devoradas por voce como recompensa de seus servicos.
- JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
- RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Acho o pensamento de meter fragmentos de corpos pela garganta abaixo muito repugnante, e espanta-me que muita gente faca isso todos os dias.
- J. M. COETZEE

Os humanos sao os unicos animais que bebem leite de maes de outras especies. Uma crianca beber leite de vaca e tao pouco natural como um cao mamar de uma girafa! As criancas humanas nao tem necessidades nutricionais de leite de vaca e crescem saudaveis sem ele.
- MICHAEL KLAPER (nutricionista)

Havia uma altura em que o leite era considerado muito aconselhavel. Mas a investigacao, juntamente com a experiencia clinica, forcou os medicos e nutricionistas a repensarem esta recomendacao.
- DR. BENJAMIN SPOCK

Aqueles que alegam importar-se com o bem-estar dos seres humanos e com a preservacao do meio ambiente deviam tornar-se vegetarianos so por esse motivo. Dessa maneira, essas pessoas aumentariam a quantidade de graos disponiveis para alimentar as pessoas em todos os lugares, reduziriam a poluicao, poupariam agua e energia e cessariam de contribuir para o desmantelamento de florestas (...) Quando os nao-vegetarianos dizem que os problemas humanos vem em primeiro lugar, eu nao consigo deixar de questionar o que exactamente eles estao a fazer pelos seres humanos que os obriga a continuar o seu apoio ao desperdicio e a brutal exploracao dos animais de fazenda.
- PETER SINGER

If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat. Thats the single most important thing you could do. Its staggering when you think about it. Vegetarianism takes care of so many things in one shot: ecology, famine, cruelty.
- SIR PAUL McCARTNEY

To kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state.
- ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE

I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesnt...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.
- MARK TWAIN

Barbarians seize this dog, which in friendship surpasses man so Prodigiously; they nail it on a table, and they dissect it alive in order to show the mesenteric veins. You discover in it all the same organs of feeling that are in yourself. Answer me, machinist, has nature arranged all the means of feeling in this animal, so that it may not feel? has it nerves in order to be impassible? Do not suppose this impertinent contradiction in nature.
- VOLTAIRE

A useless life is an early death.
- JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

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MEAT AND THE ENVIRONMENT : Nov 1, 2008

"Those who claim to care about the well-being of human beings and the preservation of our environment should become vegetarians for that reason alone. They would thereby increase the amount of grain available to feed people elsewhere, reduce pollution, save water and energy, and cease contributing to the clearing of forests. When nonvegetarians say that "human problems come first" I cannot help wondering what exactly it is that they are doing for human beings that compels them to continue to support the wasteful, ruthless exploitation of farm animals." - Peter Singer, Animal Liberation

"The ever-increasing cattle production is wreaking havoc on the earth’s ecosystems, destroying habitats on six continents. Cattle raisin is a primary factor in the destruction of the word’s remaining tropical rain forests. […] Cattle are also a major cause of global warming… The devastating environmental, economic, and human toll of maintaining a worldwide cattle complex is little discussed in public policy circles… Yet, cattle production and beef consumption now rank among the gravest threats to the future well-being of the earth and its human population." - Jeremy Rifkin, Beyond Beef, 1992

"We must recognize that it is ecological suicide for us to endeavour to maintain a meat based agriculture and a primary carnivorous diet." - Michael W. Fox, Inhumane Society, 1990

"A kilogram of beef is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions and other pollution than driving for 3 hours while leaving all the lights on back home.[...] In other words, a kilogram of beef is responsible for the equivalent of the amount of CO2 emitted by the average European car every 250 kilometres, and burns enough energy to light a 100-watt bulb for nearly 20 days." - New Scientist magazine, 18 July 2007

"According to a University of California study, it takes 5,214 gallons of water to produce 1 pound of beef. That’s more than a year of daily showers in exchange for 4 hamburgers. Even more fun, you can drive in your car for 3 hours and leave all the lights on in your house while doing it and you’re greenhouse gas emissions will not equal what comes from the production of just one kilogram of beef." - liveearth.org, Chicken or Beef? Or Vegetarian? Or Vegan?

"Yet many Americans who have reluctantly given up their gas-guzzling cars would never think of questioning the resource costs of their grain-fed-meat diet. So let me try to give you some sense of the enormity of the resources flowing into livestock production in the United States. The consequences of a grain-fed-meat diet may be as severe as those of a nation of Cadillac drivers. [..] For every 16 pounds of grain and soy fed to beef cattle in the United States we only get 1 pound back in meat on our plates. The other 15 pounds are inaccessible to us, either used by the animal to produce energy or to make some part of its own body that we do not eat (like hair or bones) or excreted." – Frances Moore Lappé, Diet for a Small Planet

"On both sides of the road, the forest has been cleared as far as the eye can see. For the most part, it has been cleared for cattle ranching. Today, there are over 8 million cattle in Brazilian Amazonia. Meat production is extremely inefficient (50 kg/hectare/year), making ranching an activity which is so wholly uneconomic that it would probably never have been undertaken on the present scale in the Brazilian Government, with aid from the World Bank and other multilateral development banks, had not poured $2 billion into subsidizing the cattle industry in Amazonia." - N. Hildyard, Adios Amazonia?

"To produce 1 lb. of feedlot beef requires 7 lbs. of feed grain, which takes 7,000 lbs. of water to grow. Pass up one hamburger, and you'll save as much water as you save by taking 40 showers with a low-flow nozzle. Yet in the U.S., 70% of all the wheat, corn and other grain produced goes to feeding herds of livestock. Around the world, as more water is diverted to raising pigs and chickens instead of producing crops for direct consumption, millions of wells are going dry. India, China, North Africa and the U.S. are all running freshwater deficits, pumping more from their aquifers than rain can replenish. As populations in water-scarce regions continue to expand, governments will inevitably act to cut these deficits by shifting water to grow food, not feed. The new policies will raise the price of meat to levels unaffordable for any but the rich. […]In the U.S., livestock now produce 130 times as much waste as people do. Just one hog farm in Utah, for example, produces more sewage than the city of Los Angeles. These megafarms are proliferating, and in populous areas their waste is tainting drinking water. In more pristine regions, from Indonesia to the Amazon, tropical rain forest is being burned down to make room for more and more cattle. Agriculture is the world's biggest cause of deforestation, and increasing demand for meat is the biggest force in the expansion of agriculture." - Ed Ayres, Time.com, Will We Still Eat Meat?

"The factory meat industry has polluted thousands of miles of America’s rivers, killed billions of fish, pushed tens of thousands of family farmers off their land, sickened and killed thousands of U.S. citizens, and treated millions of farm animals with unspeakable and unnecessary cruelty." - Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Waterkeeper Alliance

"[I]t's untreated and unsanitary, bubbling with chemicals and diseased. … It goes onto the soil and into the water that many people will, ultimately, bathe in and wash their clothes with and drink. It is poisoning rivers and killing fish and making people sick. … Catastrophic cases of pollution, sickness, and death are occurring in areas where livestock operations are concentrated. … Every place where the animal factories have located, neighbors have complained of falling sick." - U.S. Staggers Under Weight of Waste From Farm Animals, 1998

"Some people seem to think that if the animals were not eaten they would multiply so rapidly as to overrun the earth. Is it not true that the more beef there is consumed the more there is raised? These people do not understand that there are men in the business who have made an effort to increase their stock by forced means." - Ha'nish Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha'nish, Mazdaznan Dietetics and Cookery Book, 1913

"Were the belief one day to become general that man could dispense with animal food, there would ensue not only a great economic revolution--for a bullock, to produce one pound of meat, consumes more than a hundred of provender--but a moral improvement as well, not less important and certainly more sincere and more lasting than might follow a second appearance on the earth of the Envoy of the Father, come to remedy the errors and omissions of his former pilgrimage." – Maurice Maeterlick, The Buried Temple, III The kingdom of Matter, 5

"I do not mean here absolute want of food, but want of healthful nutriment. How to provide good and plentiful food is, therefore, a most important question of the day. On the general principles the raising of cattle as a means of providing food is objectionable, because, in the sense interpreted above, it must undoubtedly tend to the addition of mass of a "smaller velocity." – Nikola Tesla, The Problem of Increasing Human Energy, Century Illustrated Magazine, June 1900

"Political economists tell us that the produce of an acre of land in wheat, corn, potatoes, and other vegetables, and in fruits, will sustain animal life sixteen times as long as when the produce of the same acre is converted into flesh, by feeding and fattening animals upon it." – William A. Alcott, Vegetable Diet

"If we fish the way we fish, in 2048 there will be no more fish left, which is pretty soon." - Petra Němcová