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.

Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.

When I see bacon, I see a pig, I see a little friend, and that's why I can't eat it. Simple as that.

Eating meat is a leftover of the greatest brutality [killing]; the transition to vegetarianism is the first and most natural consequence of enlightenment.

Economy forced me to become a vegetarian, but I finally starting liking it.

Wherever I go, as long as I get a hot vegetable dish, I am okay. If I am in Gujarat, I have Gujarati food. If it's Shillong, it's northeastern.