To my mind the life of a lamb is no less precious than the life of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.

I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.

Ethically they had arrived at the conclusion that man's supremacy over lower animals meant not that the former should prey upon the latter, but that the higher should protect the lower, and that there should be mutual aid between the two as between man and man. They had also brought out the truth that man eats not for enjoyment but to live.

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way in which its animals are treated.

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.