QuoteQuest“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.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Leo Tolstoy
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
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- Wikiquote
Context
Writings on Civil Disobedience and Nonviolence (1886)
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Tolstoy, Leo. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Leo Tolstoy. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy
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