We're pretty lucky to be ditching the dairy and mocking our meat in 2016... we have a smorgasbord of vegan products in our grocery store shelves and vegan friendly restaurants popping up everywhere (especially if you live in Melbourne!). This wasn't the case 10 years ago though, any Vegan Veteran will tell you that it was a very different experience being vegan back when it was less trendy and we weren't all following each other on instagram (what would I do without @lonijane and @boulderraw???), but what about a couple of hundred years ago? Imagine being plant based well before the flushing toilet was invented, let alone This Rawesome Vegan Life's blog!
Some of the most inspirational and influential people throughout time have been the compassionate type, even if they didn't have a Youtube Channel to post 'What I eat in a Day' vids ;) So today I thought I'd do a quick little post to show you some pretty cool people throughout our ancient (and recent!) history who have been plant-munchers x
PS. No. Hitler was not actually a vegetarian.
1. Gandhi
"I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants."
2. Buddha
"the eating of meat extinguishes the seed of great compassion."
3. Pythagoras
"animals share with us the privilege of having a soul"
"for as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love."
4. Leonardo Da Vinci
"if man wants freedom why keep birds and animals in cages? Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places! I have since an early age abjured the use of meat."
5. George Bernard Shaw
"Animals are my friends... I don't eat my friends"
6. Benjamin Franklin
"Flesh eating is unprovoked murder"
7. Paul McCartney
"If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian"
Lily Xx
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