Who Are These People, Anyway? II Quiz

Answer: John Denver

He said, 'Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.'

Answer: Jerry Brown

He founded an organization called 'We The People' that, among other projects, works for sustainable agriculture.

Answer: Linda McCartney

She and Paul became vegetarians after looking up from a lamb dinner to see lambs playing in a field. She wrote, 'If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian. We feel better about ourselves and better about the animals, knowing we're not contributing to their pain. '

Answer: Leo Tolstoy

He said, 'A human can 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.'

Answer: Pythagoras

Plutarch wrote, 'Can you really ask what reason Pythagoras had for abstaining from flesh? For my part I rather wonder both by what accident and in what state of soul or mind the first man did so, touched his mouth to gore and brought his lips to the flesh of a dead creature, he who set forth tables of dead, stale bodies and ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived.'

Answer: k. d. lang

She said, 'I grew up in cattle country-that's why I became a vegetarian. Meat stinks, for the animals, the environment, and your health.'

Answer: Isaac Bashevis Singer

He wrote, 'People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times. '

Answer: Fred

One web page interview states, 'A creature of habit, Rogers swims -- nude, thank you -- every morning, is a vegetarian, has never smoked or drank and has been married to the same woman for 47 years.'

Answer: George Bernard Shaw

He was also a strident antivivisectionist.

Answer: Vegetarian

Yep! Some of them were lifelong veggies, some for only part of their lives.