Vegan Quotes

#1. I am a vegan because I don't want to support the cruel industry that goes on on farms everyday.

Zoe Rosenberg

#2. Becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species.

Chris Hedges

#3. It simply feels right to me to blend the glittery delights of New York City with a largely raw vegan diet - with the soul-deep conviction that animals are not ours to eat, wear, exploit or experiment on.

Victoria Moran

#4. What we often fail to recognize is how efficient a vegan diet is. Less land, less water, more food for our spiraling population.

Ed Begley Jr.

#5. I've been vegan for about 10 and a half years. It's been all good. I'm obviously much healthier

Woody Harrelson

#6. Vegan With A Vengeance is on my kitchen shelf. This fun and creative book is delicious for people like me, who don't eat pets.

Joan Jett

#7. So in 1987 I gave up all animal products and became a vegan. Simply so that I could eat and live in accordance with my beliefs that animals have their own lives, that they're entitled to their own lives and that contributing to animal suffering is something that I don't want to be a part of.

Moby

#8. When I ask my medical students to describe their image of a woman who elects to birth with a midwife rather than with an obstetrician, they generally describe a woman who wears long cotton skirts, braids her hair, eats only organic vegan food, does yoga, and maybe drives a VW microbus.

Alice Dreger

#9. The least likely person you'll see in church is a single twentysomething male. He is as rare at church as a vegan at a steak house.

Mark Driscoll

#10. I dream of a vegan world - that's where I want everything to go.

Gene Baur

#11. Most people are sensitized to animals through their cats and dogs, but for me it was a flounder. I used to go fishing with my dad as a kid and always felt bad about yanking these panic-stricken creatures from the water. I stopped eating fish as an adolescent and went vegan at twenty.

Dan Mathews

#12. No, I'm not a vegetarian. I do eat that way. I actually eat vegan quite a lot. I feel better when I eat that way, and I think there's been a lot of proof that's come up over the last however many years, that you can't deny, I don't think, that meat or dairy aren't all that good for us.

Hayley Williams

#13. I have been following a vegan diet now since the 1980s, and find it not only healthier, but also much more attractive than the chunks of meat that were on my plate as a child.

Neal Barnard

#14. I've been vegan for 15 years, and it turns out it makes a very big impact on the environment to eat fewer animal products, which cause more greenhouse gases than all of transportation combined.

Emily Deschanel

#15. A vegan who beats his wife is far further down the ethical ladder than a meat eater who's kind to his children.

Moby

#16. The vegan diet is obviously lacking whatever essential nutrient it is that makes people likeable.

Jim Goad

#17. In eating ecology love murder vegan vegetarianism flesh eating is unprovoked murder.

Benjamin Franklin

#18. I've found that eating vegan the last five or six months has really given me energy, I feel good and I look fabulous.

Ted Danson

#19. I'm a proud vegan, whistle-blower, and animal rights activist.

Steve-O

#20. You can get popcorn in all four theme parks, and at several other locations as well. Although it tastes buttery, the popcorn sold in the parks is vegan.

Richard Killingsworth

#21. I am a vegan out of my love and respect for animals, as well as respect for myself.

Davey Havok

#22. One can be a vegan and eating a health-promoting, high-nutrient diet, but one can also eat a small amount of animal products while following a Nutritarian diet and still live a long, healthy life.

Joel Fuhrman

#23. I mostly eat healthy. I just do. I'm not a vegan for health reasons - although obviously I'm 20 pounds lighter than when I started. I stayed 20 pounds lighter. I feel better. My friends say I look better. All that's true. But I'm a vegan for compassionate reasons.

Russell Simmons

#24. I've learned so much from my ups and downs as a life long vegan. I'm really excited to share my experiences and insights so that you can get the most out of your vegan diet.

Ursula Escher

#25. He's as nutty as a vegan T-bone.

David Sedaris

#26. Eva knew that her mom hadn't gotten the vegan sorbet because it was too expensive. In their home, cost was the main reason why something good didn't happen.

J. Ryan Stradal

#27. I'm a level 5 vegan, I don't eat anything that casts a shadow.

Matt Groening

#28. I'm actually no longer a strict vegan. I don't hang out in the cheese section - I don't even eat cheese. I don't drink milk. But every once in a while I'll have an egg. I'm going to eat eggs that come out of my next-door neighbor's farm, that's just the way it is.

Jason Mraz

#29. I'm a vegan, but I like to look good, too.

Andre Benjamin

#30. I went into raw vegan for a while, but I prefer cooked food, the way it smells, the way it feels going through your system.

John Salley

#31. I'm a vegan. But, no one believes it because when you're out in the field, most of your meal options involve meat with a side of something fried. I've learned how to be creative and improvise and can eat anywhere - even a steak house or a gas station.

Nicole Lapin

#32. I've been trying to do my boot line for 20 years, but no one thought there could be a vegan luxury brand. So I funded this myself. I feel like it is time. I feel like young people in particular are responding to this.

Pamela Anderson

#33. How is it a vegan won't visit the zoo or rodeo, but you'll level a man with martial arts?

DiAnn Mills

#34. 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

#35. You don't have to become a vegan. You can become a plant-passionate, plant-inspired bean lover!

Kris Carr

#36. I'm really interested in vegan nail polishes, because a lot of nail polishes have a lot of toxins in them.

G. Hannelius

#37. I've always thought it would be fun to have a vegan campaign aimed at gays called "Don't be a Dairy Queen."

Dan Mathews

#38. Going vegan was a little tougher for me. The final push came from watching Gary Yourofsky's lecture at Georgia Tech in person. The video is now on YouTube. I constantly show it to people interested in learning about why I choose to live the way I do.

Andy Lally

#39. 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

#40. I'm pretty healthy so I think that helps a lot. I've been that way for a long time - 20 solid years of eating vegetarian/vegan and taking care of myself. That probably helps the preservation process.

Jared Leto

#41. 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

#42. Being vegan doesn't make you a stronger, better athlete. But it allows you to make yourself a stronger, better athlete.

Brendan Brazier

#43. 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

#44. When I tell people that I'm vegan, the first question asked is, 'How do you get enough protein?' This immediately tells me that they are uneducated and know little or nothing about nutrition.

Robert Cheeke

#45. Being vegan is a glorious adventure. It touches every aspect of my life - my relationships, how I relate to the world.

Victoria Moran

#46. I recently became vegan because I felt that as a Jewish lesbian, I wasn't part of a small enough minority. So now I'm a Jewish lesbian vegan.

Carol Leifer

#47. 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

#48. The reason my food bank is vegan is because I can't pay for animal products in good conscience.

Sam Simon

#49. It's great hearing stories of my mum growing up in Brooklyn, then moving to Florida, having me and growing up with this eccentric, fun family. Although I don't eat a lot of Italian things, because I'm vegan. I was raised on meat and cheese, so I've had enough for anyone's normal life span.

Ariana Grande

#50. However close you can be to a vegan diet and further from the mean American diet, the better you are for the planet." quoted by Gidon Eshel (Bard College geographer)

James McWilliams

#51. There's a vegan and gluten-free bakery called BabyCakes that I love. They've got shops in New York and Los Angeles. Their stuff is amazing.

Zooey Deschanel

#52. For those who are still merely vegetarian and not yet vegan, I ask, what in heaven's name are you waiting for?

Howard Lyman

#53. Back in the eighties, people thought a vegan was someone from Vegas. It's a different world now and I feel lucky to have been a part of the revolution, both for animal rights and gay rights.

Dan Mathews

#54. I became a vegan, and I was getting bullied on Twitter about it.

Tia Mowry

#55. I have been really enjoying making a project out of seeking out an extremely healthy diet of raw, organic, vegan foods - and I plan on continuing to do so.

Steve-O

#56. I'm about 90 percent vegan. I think veganism is really well suited for training, at least for me anyway.

Alanis Morissette

#57. If you care about animals, there is one and only one choice: go vegan. Can you choose not to be vegan? Sure. You can choose not to care.

Gary L. Francione

#58. 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

#59. A high percentage of vegan men look like lesbians.

Dov Davidoff

#60. With a vegan diet you always have energy, so much that sometimes I have trouble sleeping at night. You feel light. You don't feel bulky or heavy. This would benefit any athlete in any sport.

Timothy Bradley

#61. You're looking...good enough to eat. Figuratively speaking, I'm strictly vegan.

Marv Wolfman

#62. Being a vegan is a first-world phenomenon, completely self-indulgent.

Anthony Bourdain

#63. My mom's a vegan. She grounded me for six months last summer for eating a cheeseburger from McDonald's. Can you imagine how long she'd ground me for eating a person?

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#64. 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

#65. I do recommend the vegan diet because you wake up and feel great!

Jennifer Lopez

#66. They are nonhuman persons. They are not food. If animals matter morally at all, there is one and only one rational response: go vegan. Everything else is just participation in animal exploitation.

Gary L. Francione

#67. Nothing has benefited me more physically, mentally and most important spiritually, then adapting a vegan diet. The best decision I have made as a human for me and the planet.

Tim Shieff

#68. I'm a vegan. It makes me feel really good and bright.

Lea Michele

#69. Every time you drink a glass of milk or eat a piece of cheese, you harm a mother. Please go vegan.

Gary L. Francione

#70. 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

#71. I've been an animal rights activist and a vegan for 28 years. The entire time, I've asked myself: How do I best advance an animal rights agenda?

Moby

#72. I take vitamins daily, but just the bare essentials not what you'd call supplements. I try to stick to a vegan diet heavy on fruit, vegetables, tofu, and other soy products.

Clint Eastwood

#73. I'm a vegan. I respect the environment, and I do my best to spread the importance of such an issue.

Jared Leto

#74. Miley [Cyrus] is so sweet. In this generation - and I know because I have two teenage boys - they don't really have to care about things. It's kind of a desensitized generation. I'm so impressed that she's really vegan and outspoken about animal welfare.

Pamela Anderson

#75. Being vegan just gives you such great karma.

Alicia Silverstone

#76. If you're in a successful band, you tend to fall into a role. But I'm not remotely laddish. I'm a grown-up. I'm vegan and teetotal. I run 50 miles a week, listening to Franz Ferdinand and the Four Tops at top volume.

Johnny Marr

#77. Cheap meat is the problem. The answer is to replace meat recipes with vegan meals.

Ingrid Newkirk

#78. How self-centered, how arrogant ... Imagine the awesome privilege of living in a society where you get to choose what you eat at each and every meal. When I was a kid, I was a vegetarian and a vegan for long stretches ... I was a commodity cheese-atarian.

Sherman Alexie

#79. I became vegan because I saw footage of what really goes on in the slaughterhouses and on the dairy farms.

Ellen DeGeneres

#80. I'm in an environment where I have a lot of information about how to stay healthy and live a good life. I love vegan and raw food, I love to exercise. If I weren't in this business, I think I would be aging differently.

Connie Britton

#81. We need radical dietary improvement, and the earlier in life that change is made, the better. Just following a vegan diet or eating a few more vegetables is not enough.

Joel Fuhrman

#82. Vitamin D from mushrooms is not only vegan and vegetarian friendly, but you can prepare your own by exposing mushrooms to the summer sun.

Paul Stamets

#83. I've seen a big gain in cardio since I went vegetarian and even gained a little more going vegan.

Andy Lally

#84. It's all saturated in sweat, pubes, and vegan farts!" Dennis

Michelle Garza

#85. I could be a vegan in sackcloth and flip-flops, but I find fabulous boots with periwinkle cuffs a far preferable option.

Victoria Moran

#86. My best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet.

Carl Lewis

#87. 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

#88. I have a dog as well, and I'm not a vegan or anything. But I needlepoint and I have a cat, so it's not boding well.

Emmy Rossum

#89. 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

#90. Unless you're a vegan freak of nature like Tony Gonzalez, I don't think you can play sports much past your early 30s.

Jeff Ament

#91. I call myself a vegetarian with vegan tendencies.

Leona Lewis

#92. 'Vegetarian' is a slippery word. I don't eat cheese, I don't eat duck - the point is I'm vegan.

Grace Slick

#93. I was raised vegan. My mom would always make quinoa with squash and kale, hippie stuff like that. Now I eat meat, but I try to be conscious about where it's coming from.

Zoe Kravitz

#94. 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

#95. I'm not completely vegan - my diet's probably about 80 percent plant based, but I do eat some meat. I try to know where everything comes from, though. And all bets are off if my husband and I go to a really great restaurant.

Lauren Bowles

#96. 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

#97. My fridge is really just vegan: coconut water, Gatorade (my favorite!), cucumbers, mint, kale, vegetables, ginger, and wheat grass.

Serena Williams

#98. I've never followed a vegan or vegetarian diet in the past, but I think I could do it. It would not be easy. I have worked with nutritionists who have said a vegan diet is not necessarily all positive for your health, because you need nutrients you only find in meats. I believe in a balanced diet.

Joel Robuchon

#99. I like quinoa. I like gingerbread. I feel they should be kept separate. I'm not in favor of this thing of making kind of raw, vegan chocolate cake and saying it's as good as chocolate cake. I mean, just eat cake and be done with it. And then have a separate meal of quinoa.

Bee Wilson

#100. I'm really not an angry vegan, but human beings are f***ing rude.

Russell Simmons