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This Quotations Archive contains words from famous and some not so famous people who have expressed a sense of love, compassion, and respect for all of God's creation: for people, for animals, and for the environment. They speak of our teaching methods and philosophy. They speak of a lifestyle of non-violence. They seek to eliminate cruelty and suffering. They seek to wake us up. They seek to give us hope.

Weeds by Mary T. Hoffman

George Eisman
Registered Dietitian and Nutrition Educator for the Coalition for Cancer Prevention (CCP)
(1950 - )

“Eating animal products not only engenders suffering and shortens the lives of other beings; it also engenders suffering and shortens the lives of the people eating those products.  We can have a perfectly adequate, well-balanced and health-promoting diet by just eating whole plant foods.  The facts that animal agriculture causes great environmental destruction and contributes to inequities in food resource availability are even further evidence that seeking a vegan diet is the RIGHT thing to do, on every level.”
 
“Possibly the most harmful myth about food is that dairy products are a necessary part of the human diet.  Other than mother’s milk in infancy, no mammal has the need for milk from its own mother or anyone else's.  The link between dairy consumption and cancer risk is well-established, as you would expect, given that milk is naturally full of growth hormones for the infant it is intended for. When we consume these hormones into adulthood, we increase our risk of cancer, which is a disease of abnormal growth. Growth hormones are naturally in the milk. Additional hormones added by commercial dairy producers is just a small additional insult.  And the suffering that goes on at dairy operations is an abomination against nature and motherhood, as calves are wrested from their dedicated mothers so that we may take all the milk.”

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