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

I try to be vegan… I really, really try. I don’t eat any red meat, and the whole animal thing really upsets me, so I’ve tried.

I did this book ‚Harvest for Hope,‘ and I learned so much about food. And one thing I learned is that we have the guts not of a carnivore, but of an herbivore. Herbivore guts are very long because they have to get the last bit of nutrition out of leaves and things.

I have become vegan – I don’t take dairy or meat. It has helped me a lot in terms of recovery and digestion.

People’s choice to become vegan, from people I’ve spoken to, seems motivated by fear.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

What important is man should live in righteousness, in natural love for mankind.

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

I just don’t like killing creatures.

It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings.

I don’t use any animal products, both because of ethical and environmental and climate reasons.

I don’t even have a TV.

Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Economy forced me to become a vegetarian, but I finally starting liking it.

I eat only vegetables and fruit, and to me it’s the most aspirational diet because it’s so easy. It’s quite simple, the cooking I do.

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

I personally have stopped flying. I have stopped eating meat and dairy.

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.