Adam Smith - To Be Or Not To Be 1942 - Spitting Image TV - Iain Stewart TV - Star Trek Voyager TV - The Royle Family TV - Laws of Manu 5:48 - The Young Ones TV - Albert Einstein - Tony Benn - Paul McCartney - George Bernard Shaw - Romans 14:2&3 - Grimsby 2016 - The Festival that Rocked the World TV - Jermaine Jenas
It may indeed be doubted, whether butcher’s meat is any where a necessary of life. Grain and other vegetables, with the help of milk, cheese, and butter, or oil, where butter is not to be had, it is known from experience, can, without any butcher’s meat, afford the most plentiful, the most wholesome, the most nourishing and the most invigorating diet. Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776
He’s [Adolf Hitler] a vegetarian and yet he doesn’t always stick to his diet. Sometimes he swallows whole countries. To Be Or Not To Be 1942 starring Carole Lombard & Jack Benny & Robert Stack & Relix Bressart & Lionel Atwill & Stanley Ridges & Sig Ruman & Tom Dugan & Charles Halton & George Lynn & Henry Victor et al, director Ernst Lubitsch
Frozen Food Golf Club: Here at the Frozen Food Golf Club we only allow in the most beautiful fresh perfectly formed vegetables. Only the choicest, blondest most Aryan veg are allowed into our vegetable youth movement. The rest are loaded up on to trucks and trains and are experimented on because they are quite frankly inferior: ‘Please, I was just obeying hors d’ouvres.’ Spitting Image s2e10, ITV 1985
Dinosaurs – it’s the meat eaters that get all the press. But recent research has revealed that out of the seven hundred species discovered, over two-thirds were herbivores. Vegetarians ruled. Iain Stewart, How to Grow a Planet I: Life from Light, BBC 2012
I can do some wonderful things with vegetables, Captain. Star Trek: Voyager s1e3: Parallax, Neelix in briefing room
Could she [Anthony’s vegetarian girlfriend] have wafer-thin ham, Barbara? The Royle Family s2e6 ***** Nana, BBC 1999
You can never get meat without violence to creatures with the breath of life, and the killing of creatures with the breath of life does not get you to heaven; therefore you should not eat meat. Laws of Manu 5:48
Vegetable rights and peace! The Young Ones s2e1: Bambi, Neil, BBC 1984
Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. Albert Einstein
Madam, if you are so concerned about catching BSE, you should do what I do and turn vegetarian. Tony Benn
You can judge a man’s true character by the way he treats his fellow animals. Paul McCartney
While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth? George Bernard Shaw
I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals. George Bernard Shaw
For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.
Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him. Romans 14:2&3
People have been chucked out of Grimsby for ordering a vegetarian breakfast. Grimsby 2016 starring Sacha Baron Cohen & Mark Strong & Isla Fisher & Rebel Wilson & Gabourey Sidibe & Annabelle Wallis & Ian McShane & David Harewood & Ricky Tomlinson & Johnny Vegas & Scott Adkins & Sam Hazeldine et al, director Louis Leterrier
Interviewer: We’ve got a guy with a lamb. Did you come here for a reason?
Dude cradling lamb: Yeah … Well, this is a revolution … A revolution of a lot of people who refuse to have anything to do with killing. And here there is vegetarian food. The Festival that Rocked the World, Sky Arts 2019
There’s been a lot of media hype surrounding the concept of veganism recently, so I’m going to see what becoming a vegan actually means and see if it can benefit my life. I want to find out why so many sportsmen are adopting a vegan lifestyle in some shape or form. Jermaine Jenas, Football Going Vegan, BBC 2019