Early Morning Quotes

Good Morning all! I am a little under the weather today and am at home. Normally I hardly ever become sick but I suppose we all must pay our dues at some point. I'm going to put up a few of my favorite quotes in hopes that you might like them. I'll be putting up some basic herbal remedies later today to help other like me who are feeling the effect of the season.
Enjoy!

"In fact, if one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be cruelty, but where a lot of people are unkind to animals, especially in the name of commerce, the cruelty is condoned and, once large sums of money are at stake, will be defended to the last by otherwise intelligent people."
—Ruth Harrison, author of Animal Machines

"About 2,000 pounds of grains must be supplied to livestock in order to produce enough meat and other livestock products to support a person for a year, whereas 400 pounds of grain eaten directly will support a person for a year. Thus, a given quantity of grain eaten directly will feed 5 times as many people as it will if it is eaten indirectly by humans in the form of livestock products.…"
—M.E. Ensminger, PhD

"Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies…that which to us is merely an evening’s meal, but to them is life itself."
—T. Casey Brennan (1948–)

"Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places."
—Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519)

"It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind."
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955)

"Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty."
—Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, Polish poet and aphorist (1909–1966)

"In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place."
—Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869–1948)

"To forgive and accept injustice is cowardice."
—Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869–1948)

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
—Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968)

"It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear."
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

"What would we do if we didn’t try? We have to try."
—Lyle Lovett

"All of us cherish our beliefs. They are, to a degree, self-defining. When someone comes along who challenges our belief system as insufficiently well-based – or who, like Socrates, merely asks embarrassing questions that we haven’t thought of, or demonstrates that we’ve swept key underlying assumptions under the rug – it becomes much more than a search for knowledge. It feels like a personal assault."
—Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

"Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. "
—George Gordon Noel Byron (Lord Byron), English Romantic poet (1788–1824)

"The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking."
—John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian-American economist (1908–2006)

"It takes 7.5 pounds of protein feed to create 1 pound of consumable hog protein; and it takes 5 pounds of protein feed to create 1 pound of consumable chicken protein. Close to 90% of protein from wheat and beans is lost to feed cycling.

This means that an enormous amount of resources are dedicated to producing wheat and soy just for the purpose of feeding it to animals, which will be slaughtered as "a source of protein"--even though they only provide about 1/5 of the amount they consume.

Not only can the production of meat be considered an injustice against animals, but it can also be considered an injustice against human beings, as well as the environment in general."