Nothing spoils lunch any quicker than a rogue meatball rampaging through your spaghetti. – Jim Davis, “Garfield” [Original context is not vegetarianism. —tε&#55

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

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

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