精選了古今中外37位名人的43條名言。（原創）
註：這些名人不全是素食者
古代（6）：孟子、譚峭、孫思貌、希波克拉底、畢達哥拉斯、普魯塔克
近代（22）：愛因斯坦、尼古拉·特斯拉、達文西、牛頓、孫中山、伏爾泰、托爾斯泰、泰戈爾、盧梭、梭羅、史懷哲、尼采、雪萊、米蘭·昆德拉、馬克·吐溫、叔本華、愛默生、傑裏米·邊沁、安妮·貝贊特、斯科特·聶爾寧、古斯達夫·司徒盧威、Humphrey Primatt
現代（9）：麥可·傑克森、保羅·麥卡尼、詹姆士·柯麥隆、彼得·辛格、艾薩克·辛格、珍·古德、愛德華·威爾遜、雅奈茲·德爾諾夫舍克、本傑明·澤凡尼
未收錄的素食名人（13）：蕭伯納、卡夫卡、甘地、理查德·瓦格納、邁蒙尼德、伊莎多拉·鄧肯、瓦斯拉夫·尼金斯基、布賴恩·格林、布萊恩·亞當斯、柯林·坎貝爾、尼爾·巴納德、喬納森·薩弗蘭·福爾、加裏·弗蘭喬內
共50位名人。
1
盡管外界環境一直阻礙我實行完全素食，但我一直擁護著這個原則。在我看來，除了贊同素食主義的目標是為了審美和道德上的理由，素食者的生活方式純粹在物質上對人類性情的影響來看，就能對全人類的命運造成有益的影響。——愛因斯坦《The Ultimate Quotable Einstein》
Although I have been prevented by outward cir-cumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the cause in principle. Besides agreeing with the aims of vegetarianism for aesthetic and moral reason, It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.
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我們的任務是必須通過擴大我們同情心的圈子，去擁抱所有的生靈和整個大自然的美，將自己從這個牢籠中解放。——愛因斯坦《紐約郵報》
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
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應盡一切努力阻止對動物肆無忌憚和殘酷的屠殺，因為這必然會敗壞我們的道德。素食主義是對既定的野蠻習慣值得稱贊的背離，我們要在食物對性格的影響上進行一場激進的改革。——尼古拉·特斯拉《The Problem of Increasing Human Energy》
Should be made to stop the wanton and cruel slaughter of animals, which must be destructive to our morals. That vegetarianism is a commendable departure from the established barbarious habit. We should effect a radical reform in the character of the food.
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難道大自然不能提供足夠簡單的食物來滿足你嗎？如果你嫌它們過於簡單，你就不能將它們搭配成樣式繁多的混合嗎？就像普拉蒂尼等作家寫到的那種飲食？——達文西《Frammenti letterari e filosofici》
Or non produce la natura tanti semplici che tu ti possa saziare? e se non ti contenti de semplici, non puoi tu con le mistione di quelli fare infiniti composti, come scrisse il Platina e li altri autore di gola?
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我相信，如果屠宰場有玻璃墻，每個人都會成為素食者。——保羅·麥卡尼
I believe if a slaughter house have glass wall, everyone will be vegetarian.
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只要我們仍未意識到自己的殘忍，我們可以不受譴責。但是，在我們的憐憫被喚起之後，如果我們僅僅為了隨波逐流而與他人一道殺害生靈，從而一味壓抑自己的感情，我們就是在侮辱我們內心世界一切美好的事物。——泰戈爾《孟加拉掠影》
So long as we are unconscious of our cruelty we may not be to blame. But if, after our pity is aroused, we persist in throttling our feelings simply in order to join others in their preying upon life, we insult all that is good in us.
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這真是可怕！不僅是動物的痛苦和死亡，更在於一個人沒有必要壓抑他自己最高尚的精神力量——用同情和憐憫來對待像他一樣的生靈，沒有必要違背他自己的感情而變得殘忍。——托爾斯泰《The First Step》
This is dreadful! Not the suffering and death of the animals, but that a man suppresses in himself, unnecessarily, the highest spiritual capacity — that of sympathy and pity towards living creatures like himself — and by violating his own feelings becomes cruel.
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這場素食運動應該會引起那些努力將天國帶到地上的人特別的喜悅，而且素食主義本身就是通往天國的重要壹步（每一步都同樣重要，或者同樣無足輕重），它也象征了人們對道德完善的渴望是很嚴肅和真切的，因為它遵循了不變的自然順序，百仞之高始於足下。 ——托爾斯泰《The First Step》
Движение это должно быть особенно радостно для людей, живущих стремлением к осуществлению царства божия на земле, не потому, что само вегетарианство ость важный шаг к этому царству (все истинные шаги и важны, и не важны), а потому, что оно служит признаком того, что стремление к нравственному совершенствованию человека серьезно и искренно, так как оно приняло свойственный ему неизменный порядок, начинающийся с первой ступени.
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一個人不用殺害動物作為食物，也可以健康地生活；所以，如果他吃肉，他參與謀殺僅僅是為了滿足他的食欲。這種行為是不道德的。——托爾斯泰《The Works of Lyof N. Tolstoi》
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.
10
你所吃的動物並不吃其它動物；你不吃那些食肉動物，反而去效法它們。你只渴望吃那些親切、性情溫順、不曾傷害過任何人的動物，它們不但願意跟隨你，還願意幫你作工，然而我們卻以吞食它們來當作酬謝。——盧梭《愛彌兒》
The animals you eat are not those who devour others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your pattern. You only hunger for the sweet and gentle creatures who harm no one, who follow you, serve you, and are devoured by you as the reward of their service.
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中國素食者必食豆腐。夫豆腐者，實植物中之肉料也，此物有肉料之功，而無肉料之毒。夫素食為延年益壽之妙術，已為今日科學家、衛生家、生理學家、醫學家所共認矣。——孫中山《孫文學說》
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自古明賢治病，多用生命以濟危急，雖曰賤畜貴人，至於愛命，人畜一也。損彼益己，物情同患，況於人乎？夫殺生求生，去生更遠。——孫思貌《大醫精誠》
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夫禽獸之於人也何異？有巢穴之居，有夫婦之配，有父子之性，有死生之情。烏反哺，仁也；隼憫胎，義也；蜂有君，禮也；羊跪乳，智也；稚不再接，信也。孰究其道？萬物之中五常百行無所不有也，而教之為網罟，使之務畋漁。且夫焚其巢穴，非仁也；奪其親愛，非義也；以斯為享，非禮也；教民殘暴，非智也；使萬物懷疑，非信也。夫膻臭之欲不止，殺害之機不已。——譚峭《化書》
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對動物的同情與善良的性格關系密切，而他可以肯定地斷言，殘暴地對待生靈的人，不會是一個好人。——叔本華《The Basis of Morality》
Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he, who is cruel to living creatures, cannot be a good man.
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肉食虐待動物、不利健康、浪費資源、毀壞環境。請盡力阻止中國重蹈西方的覆轍吧！西方國家正有越來越多的人開始醒悟到，那條路原是個悲慘的錯誤。——彼得·辛格《動物解放》
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一個有思想的人必須反對一切殘忍的習俗，無論它是多麽根深蒂固的傳統以及被光環所包圍。當我們有選擇的時候，我們就必須避免給他人的生活帶來傷痛，即使是最低級的生靈。——史懷哲《An anthology》
The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another, even the lowliest creature.
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我們必須反對給動物們施加無意識的殘暴。動物們的苦難和我們一樣。真正的人性不允許我們對它們施加這樣的痛苦。——史懷哲《Philosophy of Civilisation》
We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them.
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即使屠宰場隱密地藏在幾英裏外的地方，你只要吃了肉也等於是共犯。——愛默生《The Conduct of Life》
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughter-house is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
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在任何時代擁有深邃心靈的人，都會對動物懷有憐憫之情。——尼采《Thoughts out of Season》
The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.
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我毫不懷疑這都是人類命運的一部分，當它在逐漸地進步中放棄吃動物時，就如同當野蠻部落的人類接觸到了更大的文明時，就摒棄了同類相食的陋習。——梭羅《瓦爾登湖》
I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.
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成千上萬的人說他們“愛”動物，然後每天一兩次坐下來享受動物的肉，那些動物已被完全剝奪了一切值得讓它們繼續活下去的理由，它們在屠宰場裏經歷著可怕的苦難和恐懼。——珍·古德《The Ten Trusts》
Thousands of people who say they 'love' animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been utterly deprived of everything that could make their lives worth living and who endured the awful suffering and the terror of the abattoirs.
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我相信很少有男人和女人願意去捕捉並按住其中一頭羊或牛，並由他們親自去宰殺動物，從而使他們可以吃到肉。——安妮·貝贊特《Vegetarianism in the Light of Theosophy》
I presume that very few men and very few women would be willing to go and catch hold either sheep or of oxen and themselves slaughter the creatures in order that they may eat.
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我之所以成為一個素食者是因為我相信動物和人類都擁有生存權。我不需要靠動物的死屍來讓我生存、強壯與健康。所以，我不會為了食物而宰殺動物。——斯科特·聶爾寧《The Making of a Radical》
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.
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真正的人類美德，寓含在它所有的純凈和自由之中，只有當它的接受者毫無權力的時候才會展現出來。人類真正的道德測試，其基本的測試（它藏得深深的不易看見），包括了對那些受人支配之物的態度，比如動物。在這一方面，人類遭受了根本的潰裂，潰裂是如此具有根本性以至於其它一切裂紋都根源於此。 ——米蘭·昆德拉《不能承受的生命之輕》
True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
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如果連我們自己都缺乏憐憫，我們又有什麽資格祈求上帝的憐憫？如果我們奪走一只無辜動物的生命並使它血流如註，我們又有什麽資格談論權利與正義？我個人認為，只要人類繼續流動物的鮮血，就絕不會有任何的和平。——艾薩克·辛格《Vegetarianism: A Way of Life》
How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves have no mercy? How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? I personally believe that as long as human beings will go shedding the blood of animals, there will never be any peace.
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當你看到動物被帶往屠宰場時那種無助的樣子，你為什麽會感到痛苦呢？那是因為你的內心深處感覺到這是錯誤的，殺害無助且無辜的動物是多麽不義啊！——古斯達夫·司徒盧威《Mandaras Wanderungen》
Why did it cause you anguish, when you saw a defenceless animal driven to slaughter? Because you felt, in your inmost soul, that it is wrong, that it is unjust to kill a defenceless and innocent being!
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因為我們不僅有肉體，還有帶著翅膀的靈魂，我們可以投生野獸的肉軀裏作為居所，也可以投生牛羊的肉軀。因此，凡是肉軀，其中都可能藏著我們父母、兄弟或者和我們姻親的其他親屬，或者至少是人，所以我們應盡量避免傷害任何一具肉軀。誰能用刀宰殺小牛，聽見它的哀鳴卻置若罔聞？誰能忍心殺死羔羊，當它發出撕心裂肺的哭喊聲，像個可愛的孩子？；誰又能忍心將一只剛剛親手餵完的家禽當作食物？——畢達哥拉斯《變形記》（奧維德）
Since we are not only things of flesh but winged souls as well, we may be doomed to enter into beasts as our abode; and even to be hidden in the breasts of cattle. Therefore, should we not allow these bodies to be safe which may contain the souls of parents, brothers, or of those allied to us by kinship or of men at least, who should be saved from every harm? Who with the knife cuts the calf's throat and offers a deaf ear to its death-longings! who can kill the kid while it is sending forth heart rending cries like those of a dear child; or who can feed upon the bird which he has given food.
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我發誓，這些動物似乎是大自然為了自己的美麗和優雅而創造的。然而，動物們鮮花般色彩的肌膚、優美和諧的動人聲音，以及各種潔凈的習慣，或是在這些可憐蟲那裏發現的不同尋常的智力，都不能讓我們感到羞愧。——普魯塔克《Plutarch's Moralia》
I swear, nature appears to have produced for the sake of their beauty and grace. But nothing abashed us, not the flower-like tinting of the flesh, not the persuasiveness of the harmonious voice, not the cleanliness of their habits or the unusual intelligence that may be found in the poor wretches.
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所有動物都擁有同樣的靈魂，盡管每個肉體都是不同的。——希波克拉底《Hippocrates》
The soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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我們沒想過，身上的毛皮大衣本來是美麗的動物，它們被痛苦宰殺後，我們才有這件皮草可穿。當我們吃著盤裏的牛排時，沒想到不久以前，這塊牛排還是活生生的牛身上的一塊肉，它們被裝上卡車，忍受著高溫和缺水的痛苦，被載到屠宰場，任人粗暴地拖吊、宰殺——但願你還能有胃口！——雅奈茲·德爾諾夫舍克《生命與意識的省思》
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君子之於禽獸也，見其生，不忍見其死，聞其聲，不忍食其肉，是以君子遠庖廚也。——孟子《梁惠王章句上》
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動物對疼痛的敏感性並不差於人類。它們也擁有和人類相似的神經系統和器官知覺。當它們的身體被施加暴力時，動物也會哭喊和呻吟，盡管動物不能用言語或人類的聲音來傾訴。盡管我們聽不懂動物的語言，但是，動物的哭喊就如同人的呻吟一樣，是向我們強烈表示它們感覺到的疼痛。既然疼痛是我們所有人都不願接受的，那麽我們自己的疼痛感受也應該教會我們同情他人的疼痛，並在可能的情況下減輕它，而絕不能肆意或無情地施加痛苦。——Humphrey Primatt《The Duty of Mercy and the Sin of Cruelty to Brute Animals》
A Brute is an animal no less sensible of pain than a Man. He has similar nerves and organs of sensation; and his cries and groans, in case of violent impressions upon his body, though he cannot utter his complaints by speech, or human voice, are as strong indications tous to us of his sensibility of pain, as the cries and groans of a human being, whose language we do not understand. Now, as pain is what we are all averse to, our own sensibility of pain should teach us to commiserate it in others, to alleviate it if possible, but never wantonly or unmeritedly to inflict it.
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我更健康了，我有了更充沛的精力，我的心肺耐力提升了一倍，這是不可思議的，但是拋開健康層面不談，你能找到幾個像這樣難以置信的雙贏之道呢？你可以在真正意義上轉變這個星球，這是有可能的。——詹姆士·柯麥隆《海洋電影節獲獎發言》
I'm healthier, I've got more energy, my cardio endurance has about doubled… It's amazing, but setting aside the health benefits, how often do you get that kind of incredible win-win, where you can really transform the planet, and it's actually possible.
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我現在是一個素食者，而且我瘦多了。我多年來一直都在嚴格地節食。我感覺和從前相比，我更健康且更有活力。——麥可·傑克森《Moonwalk》（太空步）
I'm a vegetarian now and I'm so much thinner. I've been on a strict diet for years. I feel better than I ever have, healthier and more energetic.
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我在動物們身上發現了和孩子們一樣美好的特質。純潔、誠實，它們不會評判你，它們只想做你的朋友。我感覺這是很美妙的。——麥可·傑克森《93年奧普拉脫口秀采訪》
I find in animals the same thing I find so wonderful in children. That purity, that honesty, where they don't judge you, they just want to be your friend. I think that is so sweet.
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我是一個很敏感的人，一個擁有容易受傷的感情的人。孩子和動物們是我在這個世界上最好的朋友。他們只會說真話、完全公開並毫無保留地去愛你。而成年人已經學會了怎樣掩藏他們的情感和情緒。他們會說謊。他們會對你微笑，然後同樣可以在背後說你的壞話。而孩子還沒學會這些東西，所以他們不會傷害你。——麥可·傑克森
I am a very sensitive person. A person with very vulnerable feelings. My best friends in the whole world are children and animals. They're the ones who tell the truth and love you openly and without reservation. Adults have learned how to hide their feeling and their emotions. They can lie. They will smile to your face and say bad things behind your back. Children haven't learned those things yet, and they can't hurt you.
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動物就像我們的兄弟一樣，因為它們像我們一樣活潑，它們有同樣的生活原則，它們也有和我們一樣的想法、感情和記憶。但它們不會說話；如果它們會說話，我們還敢殺死並吃掉它們嗎？我們還敢犯下這種傷害罪嗎？——伏爾泰《Oeuvres complètes de Voltaire: Dictionnaire Philosophique》
Animaux comme nos frères, parcequ'ils sont animés comme nous, qu'ils ont les mêmes principes de vie, qu'ils ont ainsi que nous des idées, du sentiment, de la mémoire, de l'industrie. Il ne leur manque que la parole; s'ils l'avaient, oserions-nous les tuer et les manger? oserions-nous commettre ces fratricides?
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人類有一種本能的性格——同情像他一樣的動物，牛頓培育了這種情懷，他將它延伸到了低等動物身上。他相信上帝既然賜予了動物用來感受的器官，就證明動物擁有和人類同樣的各種感受。不應該僅僅為了讓食物更美味而讓它們受苦。——伏爾泰《Elements de la Philosophie de Newton》
Il y a sur-tout dans l'homme une disposition à la compassion, aussi généralement répandue que nos autres instincts. Newton avait cultive ce sentiment d'humanisé, il l'étendait jusqu'aux animaux. que Dieu a donné aux animaux une mesure d'idées, les mêmes sentimens qu'à nous. Il ne pouvait penser que Dieu, qui ne fait rien en vain, eût donné aux bêtes des organes de sentiment, afin qu'elles n'eussent point de sentiment. et il ne permit jamais dans sa maison qu'on les fît mourir par des morts lentes et recherchées pour en rendre la nourriture plus délicieuse.
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一匹發育完全的馬或狗比一個一天大或一個星期大、甚至一個月大的嬰兒更加理性、更為健談。然而，假如事情不是那樣，又會是如何呢？問題不在於它們能不能推理，也不在於它們能不能說話，而在於它們能不能感受到痛苦。——傑裏米·邊沁《The Principles of Morals and Legislation》
A full-grown horse or dog is beyond comparison a more rational, as well as a more conversable animal, than an infant of a day, or a week, or even a month, old. But suppose the case were otherwise, what would it avail? the question is not, can they reason? nor, can they talk? but, can they suffer?
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任何確實的實驗都證明，任何一種生理或心理上的疾病都能依靠采用素食和純凈水而減輕病情。——雪萊《The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley》
There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly tried.
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我想起了羅伯特·諾齊克贊成素食主義的精辟論點，他指出，人們認為吃肉是理所當然的，因為被殺的動物在情感和智力上都遠遠不如我們人類，不能與之相比，這就意味著，如果一種比人類真正優越的外星物種的代表們訪問地球，也運用同樣的標準，他們也就可以心安理得地吃我們了。——愛德華·威爾遜《On Human Nature》（論人性）
I am reminded of the clever way Robert Nozick makes this point when he constructs an argument in favour of vegetarianism. Human beings, he notes, justify the eating of meat on the grounds that the animals we kill are too far below us in sensitivity and intelligence to bear comparison. It follows that if representatives of a truly superior extra-terrestrial species were to visit Earth and apply the same criterion, they could proceed to eat us in good conscience.
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我一直在科學地研究“低等動物”（所謂的）的特征和性格，並將它們和人的特征和性格進行對比。我發現這個結果對我來說是深刻的恥辱。——馬克·吐溫《Mark Twain's Book of Animals》
I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result profoundly humiliating to me.
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證據越來越多——同情心、我們的健康、環境、水污染、支持發展中國家、食品安全、人口增長、可持續發展、熱帶雨林——當人們問起，“你為什麽是純素食者？”也許應該反問：“你為什麽不是？”——本傑明·澤凡尼（Benjamin Zephaniah）《Making The Connection》（紀錄片）
With the mounting evidence - compassion, our health, the environment, water pollution, supporting developing countries, food security, rising population, sustainability, the rainforest - when people ask, "Why are you vegan?" perhaps the question should be, "Why aren't you?"
