1. Physicist Einstein

"I think the attitude of vegetarians to life comes from a very simple physiological state of balance, so its impact on human beings should be It’s helpful”.

"I believe that a vegetarian life has the effect of naturally purifying human temperament. Therefore, it is the most conducive to influencing life."

2. American scientist Franklin

Franklin became a vegetarian when he was 16 years old. He mentioned in his notes: "Being vegetarian can make your mind clear, your thinking sharp, and it can lead to greater progress." ” In his autobiography, he called eating meat “gratuitous murder.” ”

3. Mencius, a thinker, politician, and educator during the Warring States Period in China

“A gentleman is like an animal: he cannot bear to see his death. , Hearing his voice, he couldn't bear to eat his meat, so a gentleman would stay away from the kitchen."

4. Su Shi, a Chinese writer in the Northern Song Dynasty

"When a person kills a living being, all five elements of his life are violated. It is unkind to slaughter his body to enrich myself; it is unrighteous to leave his family and neglect my relatives and friends; it is impolite to sacrifice his body to gods and men; it is impolite to pay tribute to food and salary, and it is worthy of the knife and anvil. It is unwise to set up a trap and lead into a trap. Alas! Human beings live in the world and make mistakes knowingly. ” 5. China’s great revolution. Sun Yat-sen, the forerunner

"Vegetarian diet is a wonderful way to prolong life, which has been recognized by today's scientists, hygienists, physiologists, and medical scientists. The Chinese vegetarian diet is particularly suitable, but tofu is the only Food should be regarded as the same as meat." ("The Founding Strategy")

6. Mahatma Gandhi, India

"I do feel that if human beings want to improve their spiritual life, they must stop just doing it. The act of killing animals to satisfy one's own appetites." 7. Irish writer Bernard Shaw began to become a vegetarian when he was 25 years old. When he was older, someone asked him once. Why does he still look so young? He said: "It's not that I look young. My appearance is similar to my age. It's just that other people look older than their actual age. That's what happens to people who eat corpses. How can they still do it?" What do you expect them to do? "

"This is really a terrible thing. In addition to the suffering and death of animals, humans needlessly suppress the essence of their noble spirit: treat all animals as they treat themselves. He showed compassion and kindness, and turned into a cruel person despite his own feelings."

8. Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci

"Really, man is the master of all animals. , because his cruelty exceeds that of any animal. Using the death of others in exchange for our own survival, our bodies have become a cemetery! I have given up eating meat since I was very young. One day, people will see killing as no different than slaughtering animals. This day will come eventually."

"Those who despise life do not deserve life."

9. Ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras

"My friends, do not contaminate your bodies with sinful foods. There is corn, there is fruit hanging from the trees, there are grapes from the vineyards for us to eat, there are also luscious edible plants and vegetables. , the earth provides many sinless and abundant foods, and also provides humans with feasts that can be obtained without killing." He also paid fishermen to release the fish they caught.

10. Greek biographer Plutarch

"Do you really want to ask why Pythagoras didn't eat meat? In my case, I would instead ask What is the state of mind of a man who licks the blood and puts the flesh of a dead body to his lips? He is feasting on the bodies of those who were dead and rotting not long ago. Whining, sobbing, and struggling for life, he dared to call these fragmented pieces of flesh nourishing food.

What is strange is that what unexpected thing prompted him to do this? How could his eyes bear to see them. How could his nose endure the stench of a man whose throat was cut, whose skin was torn, and whose body was torn into pieces? What he was tasting was the pain of others, and what he was drinking was the blood flowing from other people's wounds. How could the filth not turn him off? What he ate was certainly not the lions and wolves he killed in self-defense; on the contrary, he killed docile and kind-hearted animals, and we deprived them of their natural instincts for this little bit of meat. The right to come: sunshine and life span"

11. Russian writer Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Tolstoy became a vegetarian in 1885. who. He advocates "vegetarian pacifism". Therefore, he wrote in his book: "Eating meat is simply unethical because it involves an unethical act - killing." ” He believes that vegetarianism is a strict test of humanitarianism.

"How can we expect an ideal world when our bodies are working graveyards for slaughtered animals?"

"Vegetarianism can be used as a Standard, from which we can know that human beings' pursuit of perfect morality is real and sincere."

"The benefits of meat are only to increase animal emotions, *** ***, and increase violence. Just drinking and eating."

12. Former Myanmar Prime Minister U Nu

"World peace, or other types of peace, all depend on the attitude of the heart.

Vegetarianism produces the right attitude of mind that brings peace. It can lead to a better way of life, and if implemented universally, it will also bring more justice and peace between countries. ”

13. British MP Martin

I feel that killing animals by humans is a form of predatory behavior, which is a manifestation of viciousness and is an offense against conscience. Therefore, he proposed the establishment of the "Animal Protection Society" in the parliament. Although it failed more than ten times, the purpose of establishment was finally achieved. The current Queen of England is also a member of the association and has achieved outstanding results in protecting animals.

14. Dr. Hua Erxu from the UK

"If you want to prevent human beings from bleeding, you must start from the dining table." This is consistent with the cause-and-effect relationship advocated by our Buddhism: "Desire To avoid the disaster of war, all living beings must not eat meat." 15. Chen Ruisan, Professor of Medicine in my country

"Heart disease, vascular sclerosis, and hypertension in our country are the biggest enemies of mankind today. , the mortality rate is very high, and it is closely related to diet. If you want to reduce the above-mentioned symptoms, you should eat more vegetarian food and less animal fat. ”

16. American nutritionist. Medical scientist Dr. Miller

"If we eat a variety of animal meats, we will be sick. This is because meat lacks vitamins, lime, and carbohydrates. In addition, meat accumulates original Waste materials, as well as toxins caused by various animal diseases, as well as the putrefactive effects after slaughter, so eating meat must excrete a large amount of waste and toxins. Over time, various complications will arise one after another, which will inevitably lead to depression. Physical weakness; becoming a coward and incompetent person will ruin his life."

17. British philosopher Anne Besant

Humanitarian and social reformer. He said: "Meat eaters are responsible for all suffering caused by eating sentient animals as food. This is not limited to the horrors experienced in slaughterhouses, but also in trains. The horrors of transport, the horrors of transport in steamers or other vessels, and all the pains of hunger, thirst, and prolonged fear, these miserable animals must endure in order to satisfy the appetites of man."

18. Indian nationalist leader and social reformer Mohandas Gandhi

"The greatness of a country and its moral progress only depend on its You can tell by how the livestock are treated. I don’t think meat is necessary for us. I think it is unsuitable for the human race.” 19. John Harvey, American Surgeon. Kailog

"Meat foods are not the best nourishment for humans, nor are they the food of our primitive ancestors. They are secondary or second-hand products, because all food originally came from plants. Everything that is necessary or delicious for human nutrition can be obtained from plants. When a dead cow or sheep is lying on the graveyard, everyone calls it the same corpse. After being trimmed and hung on the butcher's stall, it becomes food. If you use a microscope to examine the corpse on the fence corner and the corpse in the butcher's shop, you may find that there is little or even no difference between the two. Both are full of colon bacteria and emit a strong rotten smell."

20. Roman poet Ovid

"Oh! What a bad thing! Swallow the meat. Our own flesh, forcing other bodies into our greedy bodies to fatten it, using the death of one creature to feed another creature."

21. British dramatist and critic. George Burnett Shaw

"Animals are my friends, and I will not eat my friends."

22. Greek philosopher Pifeli

“Sending animals to be slaughtered and cooked, thereby filling them with murderous intent, is not for nutrition and satisfying natural needs, but for the purpose of fast food. This is extremely evil and tragic.

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