"The world is his who can see through its pretentions. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance--your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it a mortal blow." Emerson

"The most violent weapon on earth is the table fork." Mahatma Gandhi

"Choosing to be blind to what we are actually doing when we shop for, prepare, and eat food, we blind ourselves not only to the horror and suffering we are instigating and eating, but also to the beauty of the world around us. This acquired inability to actually see and appreciate the overwhelming loveliness of this earth allows us to ravage forests and oceans and systematically destroy the natural world. Becoming insensitive to the pain we cause daily to defenseless animals, we also become insensitive to the beauty and luminosity of the creation that we oppress and from which we disconnect at every meal.
The desensitizing of millions of children and adults--on the massive scale that consuming millions of tortured animals daily requires--sows countless seeds of human violence, war, poverty, and despair. These outcomes are unavoidable, for we can never reap joy, peace, and freedom for ourselves while sowing the seeds of harming and enslaving others. We may speak of love, kindness, freedom, and a gentler world, yet it is our actions, especially those that are habitually practised, that determine what future outcomes we and others will experience. The cycles of violence that have terrorized people both historically and today are rooted in the violence of our daily meals. Though animals cannot retaliate like other people can, our violence toward them retaliates against us." Will Tuttle, PhD.

"The renowned ethologist Konrad Lorenz once remarked that anyone who couldn't see the difference between chopping up a dog and chopping up a lettuce should commit suicide for the benefit of society."

Quoted in "World Peace Diet", Will Tuttle, PhD.