"Were it only to learn benevolence to humankind, we should be merciful to other creatures."
"Compassion is the foundation of everything positive, everything good. If you carry the power of compassion to the marketplace and the dinner table, you can make your life really count."


"For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, those who sow the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love." Pythagoras recognized the derogatory effects of eating meat a few thousand years before the rest of the world, declaring, "Men dig their graves with their own teeth, and die more by those instruments than by all the weapons of their enemies."
