"O mortals do not pollute your bodies with a food so impious! You have the fruits of the earth, you have apples, bending down the branches with their weight, and grapes swlling to ripeness on the vines; you have also herbs and vegetables which can be mellowed and softened by the help of fire...
Oh, how criminal it is for flesh to be stored away in flesh, for one greedy body to grow fat with food gained from another living thing! And so in the midst of the wealth of food which Earth, the best of mothers, has produced, it is your pleasure to chew the piteous flesh of slaughtered animals with your savage teeth, and thus to repeat the Cyclops' horrid manners! And you cannot without destroying other life, appease the cravings of your greedy and insatiable maw!"
- Pythagoras
