“Those who still eat flesh when they could do otherwise have no claim to be serious moralists.”
Source: The Moral Status of Animals, p. 47
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Source: Mazdaznan Dietetics and Cookery Book (1913), p. 199

“How can he practice true compassion
Who eats the flesh of an animal to fatten his own flesh?”
Verse 251.
Tirukkural

Veeramani, Collected Works of Periyar, pp. 518 & 519.
Brahminism
Sayings of Adarbad Mahraspandan, as quoted in Rachel MacNair, Religions and Nonviolence (2015), p. 88 https://books.google.it/books?id=KvL3CQAAQBAJ&pg=PA88, adapted from R. C. Zaehner, The Teachings of the Magi (1956), p. 110.

Conference of Military Reporters and Editors (October 2003)

“[When asked if he could think of a cure for a dog who eats soil]”
I'll sleep with her. I’m a special kind of vet - people bring the animals in, and I sleep with them. Do you have any sick animals that need some time with a vet? [...] What I was saying was that I was going to start a vet practice. People would bring me their sick animals and I’d sleep with them. Turtles. Parakeets. I’d give parakeets blow-jobs. I’d go around the zoo, like James Herriot... saying ‘Giraffes? Really? Bring them to me.’
HermAphroditeZine, Autumn 1999

On 2015 Dadri mob lynching, as quoted in " Dadri lynching: Cow cannot be anyone’s mother, it’s just another animal, says Katju http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/cow-cannot-be-anyones-mother-its-just-another-animal-katju/", The Indian Express (3 October 2015)