World Vegan day: Vegan celebrities

In celebration of World Vegan Day, we quote celebrities and important people in history who lead this lifestyle.

"It's being claimed that more than a quarter of 1 to 24-year-olds will have nearly meat-free diets within the next decade" - ECR Newswatch, Shaun Ryan.

"A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral." ~ Leo Tolstoy

"When people ask me why I don’t eat meat or any other animal products, I say, ‘Because they are unhealthy and they are the product of a violent and inhumane industry." ~ Cassey Afleck

"Luckily we know that you can get your protein source from many different ways, you can get it through vegetables if you are a vegetarian. I have seen many bodybuilders that are vegetarian and they get strong and healthy. " ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

"I hold that the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man." ~ Gandhi

"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages."~ Thomas Edison