“If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?”
John Cleese (1939) actor from England
As quoted in W.T.F.? : (What Is Wrong With Tom Faerie?) (2006) by H. M. Leathem
“Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.”
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“As long as man eats animals how can cruelty to animals be removed.”
Morarji Desai (1896–1995) Former Indian Finance Minister, Freedom Fighters, Former prime minister
19th World Vegetarian Congress 1967
Ludwig Feuerbach (1804–1872) German philosopher and anthropologist
Der Mensch ist, was er ißt. <br class="br">Die Naturwissenschaft und die Revolution [Natural science and the revolution] (1850), repeated in Das Geheimnis des Opfers, ober der Mensch ist was er ißt http://books.google.com/books?id=QYINAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1 [The Mystery of Sacrifice, or Man is What He Eats] (1862)
Will Cuppy (1884–1949) American writer
Footnote: He does this because of his altruistic (parental) instinct. The higher one rises in the vertebrate scale the more altruistic one becomes. The higher vertebrates are just one mass of altruism.
The Three-Spined Stickleback
How to Become Extinct (1941)
“Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.”
Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN
Speech in Denver, Colorado (5 September 1952)