No. Well...actually, yes. Someone got Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman confused. Once having done this, they decided to submit a quote to several quote sites. They are the same person, but Ralph Waldo Emerson never went by "Walt."
Emerson preferred a vegetarian diet, but there is dispute over how zealously he practiced it. He abhorred slaughterhouses, and tried to stick to a vegetarian diet primarily, as did Henry David...