Helen and Scott Nearing Professions : WriterBorn : 1904Died : 1995 Browse All Authors Top 7 quotes by Helen and Scott Nearing Life is enriched by aspiration and effort, rather than by acquisition and accumulation. Helen and Scott Nearing acquisitioneffortlife-is Flesh-eating by humans is unnecessary, irrational, anatomically unsound, unhealthy, unhygienic, uneconomic, unaesthetic, unkind and unethical. May I elaborate? Helen and Scott Nearing flesh-eatingvegetarianismmay War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers. Helen and Scott Nearing killerstaskswar We believed it was better to pay as you go than it was to pay your bills by borrowing and laying up debts for another day. To pay as you go, that policy is a safer business policy and a saner business policy, and we thought it was a saner national policy. Helen and Scott Nearing debtbillspay Vegetarians, dropping meat, tend to fill up with too much starch. This leaves them no more healthy than meat-eaters, with constipation, indigestion, colds, catarrhs, coughs and chest complaints to plague them. Eating sparingly of breads, cakes, crackers, cookies, macaroni, spaghetti, anything largely starch, is a far step on the road to good health. Helen and Scott Nearing cakehealthyvegetarianism War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence. Helen and Scott Nearing groupsviolencewar I became a vegetarian because I was persuaded that life is as valid for other creatures as it is for humans. I do not need dead animal bodies to keep me alive, strong and healthy. Therefore, I will not kill for food. Helen and Scott Nearing strongvegetarianismanimal Similar Authors Ihab Hassan writer Ingmar Bergman writer Isabella Bird writer Ivan E. Coyote writer Al Feldstein writer Bert Sugar writerAll Authors
