Man is innately a creature of love … love is the most powerful force in the universe, and eventually—it's a very slow process—it will conquer. I think there will come a time, and this is down the road a great many years, when civilized people will look back in horror on our generation and the ones that have preceded it: the idea that we should eat other living things running around on four legs, that we should raise them just for the purpose of killing them! The people of the future will say meat-eaters! in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.

Interview with Rynn Berry in The Vegetarians (Brookline, MA: Autumn Press, 1979), p. 64.