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... It is a fact worth speculating upon that many groups of early Christians were both mystical and vegetarian. Had they not been ousted by the Emperor Constantine--whose imperialistic political purpose they did not serve--from the official Christianity which he (and not Jesus) established, we might today have seen half the Christian world holding a faith in mystical beliefs and eating fleshless foods...
4.5.3.3, Excerpt
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27 Jun 2013

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The greatest of all diet reforms is the change from meat-eating to a meatless diet...
4.5.3.5, Excerpt
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22 Jan 2016

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A meatless diet has practical advantages to offer nearly everyone. But to idealists who are concerned with higher purposes it has even more to offer. On the moral issue alone it tends to lessen callousness to the sufferings of others, men or animals, and to increase what Schweitzer called ”reverence for life.”
4.5.3.8
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30 Jul 2017

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... It is less destructive to uproot a vegetable or pluck a fruit than to slay an animal--and there is less suffering too. This is the answer to the argument that we still destroy life when we become vegetarians.
4.5.3.64, Excerpt
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18 Apr 2016

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Wherever and whenever meatless diet becomes the rule, and not the rarity that it is today, we may expect violence and crime to abate markedly.
4.5.3.72
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21 Jan 2017

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... It would be desirable, although admittedly difficult, gradually to adopt a meatless diet as a help to secure both the individual's development and the world's peace.
4.5.3.160, Excerpt
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5 Feb 2013

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