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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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Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal. – Ingrid Newkirk

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My perspective of veganism was most affected by learning that the veal calf is a by-product of dairying, and that in essence there is a slice of veal in every glass of what I had thought was an innocuous white liquid — milk. – Rynn Berry, quoted in Joanne Stepaniak, The Vegan Sourcebook, 1998

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For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the necessity of discharging the duties of a butcher would be so inexpressibly painful and revolting, that if they could obtain a flesh diet on no other condition, they would relinquish it forever. – W.E.H. Lecky

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