Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. – Samuel Butler, Note-Books, 1912

Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay. – George Bernard Shaw

I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience. – Albert Einstein, 1953

Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classified as cannibals. – Finley Peter Dunne