Top 45 Being Vegan Quotes
#1. We are vegans not simply because being vegan will reduce suffering. We are vegan because every sentient being values her or his life even if no one else does. We are vegan because justice minimally requires that we not take life for trivial purposes.
Gary L. Francione
#2. If you are not vegan, please consider going vegan. It's a matter of nonviolence. Being vegan is your statement that you reject violence to other sentient beings, to yourself, and to the environment, on which all sentient beings depend.
Gary L. Francione
#4. As a vegan body-builder I want to show others that it is possible to gain significant muscle and strength on a vegan diet and I want to inspire others to follow this lifestyle. I love being vegan and knowing that I am having a positive impact on our society.
Robert Cheeke
#5. Being vegan is not just a matter of being 'kind' to animals. First and foremost, it is a matter of being just and observing our moral obligation to not treat other sentient beings as things.
Gary L. Francione
#6. Well, everything with being vegan and vegetarian is a really big commitment. You have to do what you feel is best and what you believe in and what your body is telling you that it needs. I really think everyone should do what's best for them, and what's best for me may not be best for someone else.
Lea Michele
#7. There is a stereotype that vegans talk about being vegan all the time. The irony is, once people find out I'm vegan, I quickly become their confessor, counselor, and sounding board.
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
#8. The hardest part about being vegan is shoes. I mean, really, that's the only difficult part, finding shoes that don't have leather on them.
Lisa Edelstein
#9. I'm always active in trying to educate people when it comes to eating animal products, testing on animals, and the health benefits of being vegan, although I'm probably not the best person to be talking about the latter at the moment.
Daniel Johns
#10. Being vegan is a glorious adventure. It touches every aspect of my life - my relationships, how I relate to the world.
Victoria Moran
#11. Being vegan is not the key to immortality. We're all going to get sick and die. But to know you're living without harming? That's the loveliest feeling.
Victoria Moran
#12. Being vegan doesn't make you a stronger, better athlete. But it allows you to make yourself a stronger, better athlete.
Brendan Brazier
#13. Being vegan is not always easy and accessible. But it's a way of life and makes me as a person feel really good and physically look better.
Olivia Wilde
#14. Being vegan for me is a cleaner way of not participating in practices that don't align with my values.
Cory Booker
#15. I like being vegan, I think it's good for my health.
Moby
#16. I am moving towards being vegan. When I crack an egg now, I look and think could that have become a baby
Heather Mills
#17. There's a stigma about being vegan. Some people say it doesn't taste great. Don't knock it until you try it!
Tia Mowry
#18. I thought being vegan was going to be some really horrible way of life that had no flavor.
Robin Quivers
#19. If you think that being vegan is difficult, imagine how difficult it is for animals that you are not vegan.
Gary L. Francione
#20. One of the main reasons I'm vegan is because I'm ethically lazy. My friends who eat meat or who eat eggs have to sometimes wrestle with the ethical consequences of their actions. By being vegan, I take the easy way out.
Moby
#21. Being vegan provides us with the peace of knowing that we are no longer participants in the hideous violence that is animal exploitation.
Gary L. Francione
#22. Obviously, I think being vegan is important. But no one should judge anybody. I'm not a dictator and I don't expect anyone to be any certain way.
Pamela Anderson
#23. Being vegan helped me realize I can say and do what I believe is right. That's powerful.
Alicia Silverstone
#24. Being vegan is not a matter of "lifestyle." It is a matter of fundamental moral obligation. Is being vegan a matter of "choice"? Only insofar as we are able to choose to ignore our moral obligations not to exploit the vulnerable.
Gary L. Francione
#25. Being vegan or vegetarian isn't just about compassion for animals. Most of the destruction of the planet is the result of all the clear-cutting, groundwater contamination, grain production, fuel consumption, greenhouse gas, viral proliferation - the direct result of livestock production.
William McNamara
#26. I juice a lot; I get as much protein as I can, because being a vegan, there isn't much protein. But that's pretty much it. I just drink lots of water, too. I'll have a protein shake as well every morning.
Travis Barker
#27. Vegetarian is like raising a kid Mennonite. It's difficult but not that different. Raising your kid vegan is like being Amish. A totally different world.
Victoria Moran
#28. I'm still vegetarian - no, pescatarian, because I eat fish. I eat pretty much vegan at home, but when I'm on the road, I'm a bit more flexible. That was the kind of thing I learned as I got older - being flexible with it and listening to my body.
Amanda Crew
#29. Being a thoughtful vegan makes our time on this Earth more peaceful and joyous, because you get to have a hand in promoting and increasing the happiness, good health and well-being of others
both animal and human
rather than being an instrument of their suffering and death.
Russell Simmons
#30. Nothing's changed my life more. I feel better about myself as a person, being conscious and responsible for my actions and I lost weight and my skin cleared up and I got bright eyes and I just became stronger and healthier and happier. Can't think of anything better in the world to be but be vegan.
Alicia Silverstone
#31. Being a vegan just helps me build up my self-esteem. I feel good about it every time I eat a meal.
Steve-O
#32. Being a vegan is a first-world phenomenon, completely self-indulgent.
Anthony Bourdain
#33. I have to say that being a vegan in 1986 or whenever was a lot different than being a vegan in 2012. You'd go to health foods stores and basically your choice was between Mung beans and nutritional yeast, and that's about it.
Moby
#34. I think 'vegan' is a beautiful word. It is more than just a description for our diet. I see it as a visible template for an ethical, healthy, responsible, and rational life. Because it describes our character, it says we do not take the life of another living being to satisfy our wants.
Philip Wollen
#35. I am an urban vegan. I love the glossy pages of 'Vogue,' even though I won't purchase the leather shoes and bags I see there, and being reminded that the fur trade even exists breaks my heart.
Victoria Moran
#36. I thought a vegan diet would be too difficult, being on the road so much, but it's been far easier than I thought.
Michelle Forbes
#37. Stop being a vegan and start enjoying what you eat.
Jamie Oliver
#38. I remember talking to someone who is vegan. At the time, I would hear a lot of outrageous claims from vegans about the good that being a vegan can do for you, for your health and whatnot. I remember someone once told me vegans don't sweat, so I started my mind going.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#39. Being a vegan is pretty easy these days, as almost every town and city has health food stores and vegetarian-friendly restaurants.
Moby
#40. I'm killing two birds at once, so to speak. Animal-based food kills people. This way, by going vegan ... we get healthy and save animals. I'm being selfish, too, because if I can get my employees healthier, we cut down on sick days and gain more productivity.
Steve Wynn
#41. The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom.
Uri Geller
#42. I'm a vegan. I lost 150 pounds because of being a vegan.
Mike Tyson
#43. A vegan diet is one of the best things you can do for your health and the well being of our planet.
Robert Cheeke
#45. My own view is that being a vegetarian or vegan is not an end in itself, but a means towards reducing both human and animal suffering and leaving a habitable planet to future generations.
Peter Singer
