What Juliet doesn't eat... and why...

But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.
Plutarch

The Vegetarian Pages

The birds of the air die to sustain thee;
The beasts of the field die to nourish thee;
The fishes of the sea die to feed thee;
Our stomachs are their common sepulcher,
Good God! With how many deaths are our poor lives patched up?
How full of death is the life of momentary man!
Quarles

I have been a vegetarian since 1983 when ill health and a growing guilt over the inhumane cost of a meat based diet finally convinced me to buck the norm and eat for my soul rather than my convenience. Juliet

Vegetarian Resource Group

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb simply because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
Mark Twain

p.e.t.a.

No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.
Henry David Thoreau

Vegetarian Times

I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.
Leonardo Da Vinci

Animal Rights Resource Site

For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.
Pythagoras

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?
George Bernard Shaw

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
Abraham Lincoln

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple

Let them enjoy their little day,
Their humble bliss receive;
O, do not lightly take away,
The life thou cans't not give.
Thomas Gisborne from The Worm

If you wish to hear more about vegetarianism the Julie way contact: juliet.carnell@usa.net

Changes last made on: April 10, 1999
Copyright © 1999 by Juliet Carnell