“It’s awful to think of people eating dogs, but some people eat pork. I don’t, but some people do. And a pig is just like a dog, there is no difference between them.”

From his Humanity show; quoted in "Ricky Gervais chooses vegan," Vegetarians of Washington (13 September 2017) https://vegofwa.org/tag/ricky-gervais/

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