“To consider yourself an environmentalist and still eat meat is like saying you’re a philanthropist who doesn’t give to charity.” — Howard Lyman, former fourth-generation Montana cattle rancher and now vegan activist.
“What happens almost universally when one stops eating flesh foods is that one drops excess weight. The loss of superfluous, unneeded weight continues when one stops eating dairy products. One’s true, ideal weight is often easily discovered after one adopts a live-food diet. A body built on high-quality, whole, organic, nature-developed foods is also of higher quality than body weight built on poor-quality commercial foods.” — Dr Gabriel Cousens, Conscious Eating
“We’re trying to overcome the crunchy-granola reputation. Our image needs to be polished. People think that a vegan diet is a sacrifice, that it’s tasteless and unappealing. It’s not. They think you can’t get enough protein, calcium or iron. You can.” — Priscilla Feral, national president of Friends of Animals and author of The Best of Vegan Cooking. Priscilla was quoted in a story, Turn Over a New Leaf: Vegan Diets are Moving Solidly into Mainstream, on the Hartford Courant news site.
“We’d like people to realise that eating vegan is not difficult if you do it well and if you’re around people that support you. It can be very enjoyable, tasty, fun and extremely healthy.” Compassionate Action for Animals’ Nicholas Orth, who is supporting more than 800 students as they go vegan and vegetarian for seven days at the University of Minnesota, during the college’s sixth annual Veg Week (beginning Tuesday).
Nicholas Orth with volunteers Rebecca McDougle and Alexa Nelson.
