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It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary prep

It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust. – Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab Notes

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A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses. – George Bernard Shaw

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Millions of [the indigenous peoples of India] have lived to an advanced age, without having tasted of any thing that ever possessed life, and been wholly free from a chain of maladies, which have scourged every civilized nation on the globe… – “Food,” The Medical Adviser, and Guide to Health and Long Life, edited by Alex.

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I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that. – Oscar Wilde

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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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