“No man who aims at making his life an harmonious whole, pure, complete, and harmless to others, can endure to gratify an appetite at the cost of the daily suffering and bloodshed of his inferiors in degree, and of the moral degradation of his own kind. I know not which strikes me most forcibly in the ethics of this question the injustice, the cruelty, or the nastiness of flesh-eating. The injustice is to the butchers, the cruelty is to the animals, the nastiness concerns the consumer. With regard to this last in particular, I greatly wonder what persons of refinement—aye, even of decency—do not feel insulted on being offered, as a matter of course, portions of corpses as food! Such comestibles might possibly be tolerated during sieges, or times of other privation of proper viands in exceptional circumstances, but in the midst of a civilised community able to command a profusion of sound and delicious foods, it ought to be deemed an affront to set dead flesh before a guest.”

quoted in "Internal Exile" by Pankaj Mishra in The New Yorker, 2022

India Together, July, 2000 http://www.indiatogether.org/reports/peta/newkirk.htm
2000

Verse 251.
Tirukkural

19th World Vegetarian Congress 1967

Source: Fell

Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

Source: Mazdaznan Dietetics and Cookery Book (1913), p. 196

Source: The Black Jacobins (1938), pp. 88-89.

From an essay in Cruelties of Civilization (1897) as quoted in Roderick Nash, The Rights of Nature, University of Wisconsin Press, 1989, p. 29 https://books.google.it/books?id=f9tJZz6jDUIC&pg=PA29.