Gandhi on Animals

• The greatness of a Nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
• I abhor vivisection with my whole soul.  All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.
• To my mind the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to the protection by man from the cruelty of man.
• I do not regard flesh food as necessary for us. I hold flesh food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower [supposedly lower] animal world if we are superior to it. The only way to live is to let live.