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Spirit Cares Through Caring People

The following quotations of famous people are from the website "The Friendly Fig." These are just a few of the 200 quotes. Go to "The Friendly Fig" to see more.

"Vegan food is soul food in its truest form. Soul food means to feed the soul." Erykah Badu

            "Being vegan just gives you great karma." Alicia Silverstone

"I personally chose to go vegan because I educated myself on factory farming and cruelty to animals, and I suddenly  realized that what was on my plate were living things, with feelings. And I just couldn't disconnect myself from it any longer." Ellen DeGeneres 

       

             "Be the voice of those who can't say... 'stop.' Who can't say 'that hurts.' Be the voice of the animals." Miley Cyrus

         "My motto has always been 'If you love animals, don't eat them.... The moment I began to understand what was going on with the treatment of animals, it led me more and more in the path I am on now, which is a complete vegan." Bryan Adams

                "The greatness of a nation and it's moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." Gandhi

          "Eating meat is the most disgusting thing I can think of. It's like biting into your grandmother." Morrisey

    "If a kid ever realized what was involved in factory farming, they would never touch meat again." James Cromwell

           "There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain. happiness, and misery." Charles Darwin

           "My body will not be a tomb for other creatures." Leonardo Da Vinci

                  "People eat meat and think they will become as strong as an ox, forgetting that the ox eats grass." Pino Caruso

      "We need to realize that these are beings that suffer the same as we suffer. They want freedom the way we want freedom. " Russell Simmons"

      "Nonviolence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living being, we are still savages." Thomas Edison

     "When I see bacon, I see a pig, I see a little friend, and that's why I can't eat it. Simple as that." Paul McCartney

                "The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different."    Hippocrates

     "Part of my becoming a vegetarian was that I would look at my burger, then look at my dogs, and I wasn't able to see a difference." Kristen Bell

                   "Every time sitting at a dining table, we make a choice. Please choose vegetarianism. Do it for the animals, Do it for the environment and for the sake of your own health." Alec Baldwin

         "I love animals. All animals. I wouldn't hurt a cat or a dog - or a chicken, or a cow. And I wouldn't ask someone else to hurt them for me. That's why I'm a vegetarian." Peter Dinklage

      "Why do we call some 'pets' and some 'dinner.'" K.D. Lang

                   "Please don't refuse with your eyes what the animals endure with their bodies." Shaun Monson.

           "Eating for me is how you proclaim your beliefs three times a day. That is why all religions have rules about eating. Three times a day, I remind myself that I value life and do not want to cause pain or kill other living beings. That is  why I eat the way I do." Natalie Portman

     "The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity."   George Bernard Shaw

            "Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul." Pythagoras

       "There are two kinds of cardiologists: vegans and those who don't read the data."   Dr. Kim Allan Williams

                  "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect." Mark Twain

       "You either approve of violence or you don't, and nothing on Earth is more violent or extreme than the meat industry." Morrisey

    "Animals are near and dear to my heart, and I've devoted my life life to improving their lives." Betty White

                 "After all the information I gathered about the mistreatment of animals  I couldn't continue to eat meat.  Liam Hemsworth

    "I'm a vegan. I don't want to torture anything. I guess it's trying to live a life where I'm not contributing to the cruelty of the world. Jessica Chastain

                   "We are all animals of this planet. We are all creatures. And nonhuman animals experience pain sensations just like we do. They too are strong, intelligent, industrious, mobile, and evolutional. They too are capable of growth and adaptation. Like us, firsthand foremost, they are earthlings. And like us, they are surviving. Like us they also seek their own comfort rather than discomfort. And like us they express degrees of emotion. In short like us, they are alive." J. Phoenix

     "Compassion is a deep bond between yourself and all creatures. "Eckhart Tolle

              "This may surprise you, because it surprised me when I found out, but the single biggest thing an individual can do to combat climate change is to stop eating animals. James Cameron

               "By eating meat we share the responsibility of climate change, the destruction of our forests, and the poisoning of  our air and water. The simple act of becoming a vegetarian will make a difference in the health of our planet. " Thich Nhat Hanh

         "You can't do anything violent humanely."  James Wildman

                   "Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you anymore." Franz Kafka

                "It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the  human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of humanity."" Albert Einstein

          "An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language." Martin Buber

                     "We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature." Rachel Carson

          "If slaughterhouses had walls, we'd all be vegetarians." Paul McCartney 

                         "The animals of this world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for  humans  any more than blacks  were made for whites, or women for men." Alice Walker

         "The Gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies; they are the trees and the      plants  and the seeds." Plato

             "The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man." Charles Darwin

        "Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar." Bradley Miller

       "Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food." Hippocrates

               "The food you eat can either be the safest, most powerful form of medicine, or the slowest  form of poison.' Ann Wigmore

             "Medicine is not healthcare, food is healthcare. " Karen Pendergrass

        "Could you look an animal in the eyes and say to it, 'My appetite is more important than your  suffering?'" Moby

                 "One to change a few. A few to change many.

                                          Many to change the world. Starts with one."                                                                                                                                                                      Anonymous

             

 Listed below are some caring animal rights organization where you can find plenty of information about becoming a veggie: initial "baby" steps, recipes, actions you may choose to support and take.

              PETA  https://www.peta.org/

              Mercy For Animals   https://mercyforanimals.org/

              Christian Vegetarian Association   https://christianveg.org/

               Vegan Theology   https://www.vegantheology.net/

               Humane World for Animals   https://www.humaneworld.org/en

                The World Peace Diet   https://www.worldpeacediet.com/

FACEBOOK GROUPS: There are many "veggie" groups on Facebook. Just connect with a few of the above groups and a few of the ones listed below and the algorithm will send a plthora of possibilities for y'all. Some of my favorites:

                The World Peace Diet                    Grumpy Old Vegans

                             Plant Based and Vegan Recipes for Beginners                   

 

                                                                  Changing Hearts Animal Sanctuary

                                     Vegan Theology                          Lovesway Geoagape

                                          

 

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Number of people who contacted me and said  this website helped them adopt:

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           a mostly plant-based diet   -

           a whole foods plant-based diet   -

           a vegetarian diet   -

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