Vic Forsythe, president of the Vegetarian Society, in the Orange County Register, October 30, 1991. This commentary following the mass murder of 23 people in a Killeen, Texas, diner:

It seems quite ironic that flesh eaters have been killed en masse while stuffing their faces with pieces of tortured flesh. They then complain about automatic weapons, guns, and knives while they sit only miles away from weapons of mass destruction that could wipe out millions. Yet they continue to ignore the consequences of that quivering piece of flesh right at the end of their fork. Just as vampires, most humans are well suited as a metaphor for the whole human race.

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