Albert Einstein on Vegetarianism
← Back to Albert Einstein ProfileWriting to a friend in 1954, a largely vegetarian Albert Einstein described his meat-free diet and philosophical conviction that humans are not inherently carnivores.
“So I am living without fats, without meat, without fish, but am feeling quite well this way. It always seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore.”
In a 1930 letter, Albert Einstein reveals his long-held belief in vegetarianism's potential to improve humanity's temperament and overall well-being, despite his own dietary limitations.
“Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the cause in principle. Besides agreeing with the aims of vegetarianism for aesthetic and moral reasons, it is my view that a vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.”