“If people want to eat meat, they should kill the animals for themselves… Nor should they say that if they did not do it the slaughter would still go on… Every person who eats meat takes a share in that degradation of his fellow-men; on him and on her personally lies the share, and personally lies the responsibility.”

—  Annie Besant

Vegetarianism in the Light of Theosophy(1913), p. 18-20

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British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, wr… 1847–1933

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