11/22/2021
Celebrations of thankfulness and joy shouldn't require violence. This holiday season, please help share the love with all fellow beings by choosing plant-based foods 🌱🐾💚 Learn more at www.LAVegan.org
"The thinking person must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo."
― Albert Schweitzer, Nobel Peace Prize recipient
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Thou "shalt not kill" does not only apply to murder of one's own kind, but to all living beings.
― Leo Tolstoy, author of War and Peace
"However scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed... there is complicity."
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher/abolitionist
"My body will not be a tomb for other creatures."
― Leonardo da Vinci
"There's no fundamental difference between man and animals in their [ability to] feel pleasure and pain, happiness and misery."
― Charles Darwin
"Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages."
― Thomas Edison
🌎 "Nothing will benefit health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."
― Albert Einstein
🏋️♂️ "All protein is initially made by plants... and you really want to get your protein from plants because plant proteins have a much more beneficial effect on our physiology."
― What the Health (currently on Netflix)
"It is the position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics that appropriately planned vegetarian, including vegan, diets are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits for the prevention and treatment of certain diseases. These diets are appropriate for all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, adolescence, older adulthood, and for athletes."
― Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
"The products for sale on supermarket shelves are so far removed from the individuals who once existed... individuals who share with us and our companion animals we love so dearly, our capacity to feel love, our capacity to suffer, our desire to live, to be free... to be seen not as objects, not as units of production, but for who we are as individuals. The truth is, there is no humane way to kill someone who wants to live."
― Joaquin Phoenix, via www.WatchDominion.com
"The animals of the world... were not made for humans any more than blacks were made for whites or women for men."
― Alice Walker, author of "The Color Purple"
"I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights."
― Abraham Lincoln
"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right."
― Thomas Paine, Founding Father
*Image credits: Pixabay and www.Hope-TheProject.com
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