vegetarianism, n.Definitions

Vegetarianism is best conducted not out of a love of animals, but out of a hatred of plants.

Vegetarianism is a prerequisite to living a good life because eating flesh is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling - killing.

Vegetarianism is wrongly and rashly taken to be tied to fragility. The farmer, while being jerked forward by his oxen, with its vegetable-made bones, often insist that vegetables alone furnishes nothing to make bones with.

Vegetarianism is such that 'thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from sinai.

Vegetarianism is inextricable from war. As long as men massacre animals and act as the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, they will kill each other and not know peace.

Vegetarianism is the acid test of humanitarianism. As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields, for killing forces man to suppress in himself his highest spiritual capacity. This violation of his own feelings makes him cruel.

Vegetarianism is the moral choice on the grounds that between the murder of an animal and the murder of a man, there's no more than one step.

Vegetarianism is the path of every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition.