Quotes by Helen and Scott Nearing

Helen and Scott Nearing

Flesh-eating by humans is unnecessary, irrational, anatomically unsound, unhealthy, unhygienic, uneconomic, unaesthetic, unkind and unethical. May I elaborate?

Flesh Eating

May

Vegetarianism

I became a vegetarian because I was persuaded that life is as valid for other creatures as it is for humans. I do not need dead animal bodies to keep me alive, strong and healthy. Therefore, I will not kill for food.

Animal

Strong

Vegetarianism

Life is enriched by aspiration and effort, rather than by acquisition and accumulation.

Acquisition

Effort

Life Is

Vegetarians, dropping meat, tend to fill up with too much starch. This leaves them no more healthy than meat-eaters, with constipation, indigestion, colds, catarrhs, coughs and chest complaints to plague them. Eating sparingly of breads, cakes, crackers, cookies, macaroni, spaghetti, anything largely starch, is a far step on the road to good health.

Cake

Healthy

Vegetarianism

War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers.

Killers

Tasks

War

War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence.

Groups

Violence

War

We believed it was better to pay as you go than it was to pay your bills by borrowing and laying up debts for another day. To pay as you go, that policy is a safer business policy and a saner business policy, and we thought it was a saner national policy.

Bills

Debt

Pay

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Quotes by Helen and Scott Nearing

Helen and Scott Nearing

Flesh-eating by humans is unnecessary, irrational, anatomically unsound, unhealthy, unhygienic, uneconomic, unaesthetic, unkind and unethical. May I elaborate?

I became a vegetarian because I was persuaded that life is as valid for other creatures as it is for humans. I do not need dead animal bodies to keep me alive, strong and healthy. Therefore, I will not kill for food.

Life is enriched by aspiration and effort, rather than by acquisition and accumulation.

War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers.

War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence.

We believed it was better to pay as you go than it was to pay your bills by borrowing and laying up debts for another day. To pay as you go, that policy is a safer business policy and a saner business policy, and we thought it was a saner national policy.

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