Vegtastic!

Lisa: When will all those fools learn that you can be perfectly healthy simply eating vegetables, fruits, grains and cheese?
Apu: Oh, cheese!
Lisa: You don’t eat cheese, Apu?
Apu: No, I don’t eat any food that comes from an animal.
Lisa: Ohh, then you must think I’m a monster!
Apu: Yes, indeed I do think that. But, I learned long ago, Lisa, to tolerate others rather than forcing my beliefs on them. You know, you can influence people without badgering them always. It’s like Paul [McCartney]’s song, “Live and Let Live.”
Paul: Actually, it was “Live and Let Die.”
Apu: Well, whatever, whatever. it had a good rhythm.

– The Simpsons, “Lisa the Vegetarian”

Indeed, people speak sometimes about the “animal” cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to animals, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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