For example, my idol swimmer Phelps.
There are others:
Mencius, a thinker, politician and educator in China during the Warring States Period
"A gentleman is a beast, and he can't bear to see his life, but he can't bear to see his death, and he can't bear to eat his meat."
◎ Su Shi, a writer in the Northern Song Dynasty in China
"When a person kills a living thing, the five permanent members will do everything they can, cover up and slaughter him, and make himself fat, which is unkind; It is unjust to leave his family and delay my relatives and friends; It is impolite to offer his body to the man of God. It is unwise to say that you are eating your food, and when you are anvil; Set bait and make-up media, and introduce traps, for you don't believe it. Hey! Living in the world, all by the five permanent members, knowing and committing crimes, how can we be human? "
Sun Yat-sen, China's great revolutionary forerunner
"Vegetarianism is a wonderful skill to prolong life, which has been recognized by scientists, hygienists, physiologists and medical scientists today. The vegetarian diet of China people is particularly suitable, but tofu is the same as meat. " (
◎ Mahatma Gandhi, India
"I really think that in order to improve human spiritual life, we must stop slaughtering animals just to satisfy our own desires."
◎ Bernard Shaw, an Irish writer
Bernard Shaw began to be a vegetarian when he was 25 years old. When he was old, someone once asked him why he looked so young. He said, "It's not that I look young, my appearance is similar to their age, but others look older than their actual age. People who eat corpses are like this. What can we expect from them?"
"This is really a terrible thing. Apart from the pain and death of animals, human beings unnecessarily suppress the essence of their noble spirit: treat all animals with their sympathy and kindness, and turn into cruel people by betraying their feelings."
Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci
"Really, man is the master of all animals, because he is more cruel than any other animal. With the death of others, in exchange for our own life, our bodies have become cemeteries! I abandoned meat from an early age. One day, people will see that killing people is no different from slaughtering animals, and this day will come. "
"People who despise life don't deserve life."
◎ Pythagoras, ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
"My friends, don't pollute your bodies for evil food. There are corn, fruits hanging from trees, grapes in vineyards for us to eat, and even more delicious edible plants and vegetables. The earth provides many innocent and rich foods, and also provides a big meal that human beings can get without killing." He also paid fishermen to release the fish they caught.
Franklin, an American scientist
Franklin was a vegetarian at the age of 16. He mentioned in his notes: "Being a vegetarian makes your mind clear and your thinking sharp, which leads to greater progress." In his autobiography, he called eating meat "unprovoked murder."
Russian writer Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Tolstoy became a vegetarian in 1885. He advocated "vegetarian pacifism". Therefore, he wrote in his book: "Eating meat is simply immoral, because it involves an immoral action-killing." He believes that vegetarianism is a rigorous test of humanitarianism.
"How can we expect the world to have an ideal world when our bodies are active cemeteries for slaughtered animals?"
"Vegetarianism can be used as a standard, from which we can know that the pursuit of perfect morality is true and sincere."
"The benefits of meat can only increase animal emotions, stimulate sexual desire, and increase binge drinking and food addiction."
◎ physicist Einstein
"I think the attitude of vegetarians towards life comes from a very simple physiological balance, so it is beneficial to human beings."
Wu Nu, former Prime Minister of Myanmar
"World peace, or other types of peace, depends on the attitude of the mind. Vegetarianism can produce a correct spiritual attitude that brings peace. It can lead to a better way of life, and if it can be universally implemented, it will also bring more justice and peace between countries. "
◎ British MP Martin
feels that killing animals by characters is a kind of law of the jungle, that is, a vicious expression, which is a matter of conscience. Therefore, in the parliament, he proposed the establishment of the "Society for the Protection of Animals". Although he failed more than ten times, he finally achieved the goal of establishment. Now the queen of Britain is also a member of the society, and the protection of animals has achieved remarkable results.
◎ British doctor Hua Huaxu
"If we want to avoid human bloodshed, we must start from the dining table." This is in line with the causal relationship advocated by our Buddhism: "If you want to avoid being robbed by swords and soldiers in the world, unless all beings do not eat meat."
◎ Chen Rui III, a Chinese medical scientist
"Heart disease, arteriosclerosis and hypertension in our country are the greatest enemies of mankind today, and the mortality rate is very high, all of which are closely related to diet. If we want to reduce these diseases, we should eat more vegetarian food and less animal fat."
◎ Dr. M, an American nutritionist and medical scientist
"If we eat all kinds of animal meat, we will be ill, because the meat lacks vitamins, calcareous substances and carbohydrates. In addition, the original waste accumulated in meat, the toxins caused by various animal diseases, and the corrosive effect after slaughter, so the waste and toxins that carnivores have to excrete. For a long time, various complications have arisen one after another, which will inevitably lead to low ambition and weak physical strength, becoming a incompetent person and delaying life. "
Anne Besson, British philosopher
Humanitarian and social reformer. He said: "People who eat meat are responsible for all the pains caused by eating meat, and these pains come from feeding on conscious animals. This is not limited to the horror in the slaughterhouse, but also the horror when transported on the train, the horror when transported by steamboat or other ships, and all the pain of hunger and thirst and long-term fear. In order to satisfy the appetite of human beings, these tragic animals must bear so much pain. "
Indian nationalist leader and social reformer mohandas gandhi
"The greatness of a country and its moral progress can be known only by how its livestock are treated. I don't think meat is necessary for us. I don't think it is suitable for race. "
American surgeon John Harvey Kellogg
"Meat food is not the best nutrition for human beings, nor is it the food of our primitive ancestors. They are secondary or second-hand products, because all food originally comes from plants. Everything necessary or delicious for human nutrition, which can be obtained in meat, can be obtained from plants. A dead cow or sheep is lying on the graveyard, and everyone calls it a stinky corpse. The same corpse, trimmed and hung on the butcher's stall, became food. If the body on the corner of the fence and the body in the butcher shop are examined with a microscope, it may be found that there is little or no difference between them. Both of them are full of colon bacteria and give off a strong rotten smell. "
◎ Roman poet Ovid
"Ouch! What a bad thing it is! Swallow meat into our own flesh, cram other bodies into our greedy bodies to make it fat, and feed another creature with the death of one creature. "
Plutarch, a Greek biographer and historian
"As far as I'm concerned, I'm surprised that the first one touched the slaughtered animals with his mouth, handed the meat of the dead animals to his lips, and made dishes with various names from the corpses of animals that were still shouting, moving and looking at them a moment ago, and put them in front of people's eyes. What was his feeling, soul or reason like? How can his eyes bear to look at the bloody, skinned and torn body? How does his sense of smell tolerate the smell of blood? How can he chew someone else's wounds and suck the sap from a fatal wound to do such a filthy thing without upsetting his appetite? "
George Bernard Shaw, British dramatist and critic
"Animals are my friends, and I don't eat my friends."
◎ The Greek philosopher Pfeiffer
"Animals are sent to slaughter and cook, so the killing is full, not for the sake of nutrition and meeting the needs of nature, but for the sake of quick appetite. For this purpose, this is beyond the constant evil and sadness."
(From: Doubts about Forbidding Vegetarianism, edited by Xueci, China International Broadcasting Press, 1st edition, April, 1999. )
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