“It is a fallacy to say that a vegan diet makes a person puny or weak. The strongest animals in world — the rhinoceros, the gorilla, the hippopotamus, the camel, the horse — are vegans.”
“Three fast-food vegetarian restaurants in New York City — Zen Burger, FoodSwings, and Crisp — provide a foretaste of the vegetarian fast-food restaurant of the future.”
“The annals of prehistory have unfortunately been written by historians and anthropologists who have a carnivorous bias, however unwitting.”
“To say that humans have the anatomical structure of an omnivore is an egregiously inaccurate statement. The great taxonomist Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778) classified humans not as carnivores, not as omnivores, nor even as herbivores, but as frugivores. Linnaeus writes: ‘Man’s structure, internal and external compared with that of the other animals, shows that fruit and succulent vegetables are his natural food.’”
Quotes from Answers About the Vegan Lifestyle. Serious Eats calls Berry out on his critique of carnivorously-biased historians here.
Berry’s writing credits include: Food for the Gods, Hitler: Neither Vegetarian Nor Animal Lover, The Vegan Guide to New York City, and Becoming Raw: The Comprehensive Guide to Eating a Nutritious Raw Diet
