You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse i

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Vegetarianism is harmless enough though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness. – Robert Hutchison, address to the British Medical Association, 1930

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Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness. – Bill Griffith, Griffith Observatory comic strip, 1977

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