We all love animals. Why do we call some “pets” and others “dinner?” – k.d.lang

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants. – A. Whitney Brown

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

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.