Quite often the young person is horrified at innocent animals being driven to the slaughterhouse to satisfy the appetites of the human species which … - Jean Mayer

[The] enormous appetite for animal products has forced the conversion (at a very poor rate) of more and more grain, soybean and even fish meal into feed for cattle, hogs and poultry, thus decreasing the amounts of food directly available for direct consumption by the poor.

<nowiki>[</nowiki>Vegetarianism] has three things going for it all at once—economics, health and compassion.

In becoming a vegetarian, you will eat a greater percentage of your calories from cereal grains, dried beans and peas, potatoes and pasta—the very foods most dieters avoid with zeal. And you will lose weight.