George Bernard Shaw:
While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts,
how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth.
Roshi Philip Kapleau:
Few people associate the ham or veal or steak they are eating
with a live, suffering animal.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
You have just dined; and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is
concealed in a graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
Roshi Philip Kapleau:
We invent euphemisms like “ham,” “pork,” “steak,” “beef,” “veal,” and “mutton”
so we won’t be reminded that we are ingesting the scorched flesh of dead pigs,
cows, calves, and sheep, slain for the pleasures of our palates.