To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body. – Mahatma Gandhi
Nothing spoils lunch any quicker than a rogue meatball rampaging through your spaghetti. – Jim Davis, “Garfield” [Original context is not vegetarianism. —tε7
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