Ethically, she couldn’t cause the suffering of any living thing. Logically, bacon cheeseburgers were delicious.

She was not a vegetarian and knew firsthand animals had to die for her delectation, but she never liked to think about it.

I had learned that a dexterous, opposable thumb stood among the hallmarks of human success. We had maintained, even exaggerated, this important flexibility of our primate forebears, while most mammals had sacrificed it in specializing...

We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal cutlet may be white; we nail geese to a board and cram them...

I love animals, especially with barbeque sauce.