Vegetarianism (n.) 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 (n.) 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 (n.) 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 (n.) 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 (n.) is the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere.