I think Denis Leary said it best in No Cure For Cancer:
<blockquote>"I don't want to eat the meat because I love the animals. I love the animals!"
Hey, I love the animals too. I love my doggy. He's so cute! My fluffy little dog.. He's so cute-
But there's the problem. We only want to save the cute animals, don't we? Yeah. Why don't we just have animal auditions, folks? Line 'em up one by one and interview them individually.
"What are you?"
"I'm an otter."
"And what do you do?"
"I swim around on my back and do cute little human things with my hands!"
"You're free to go."
"And what are you?"
"I'm a cow."
"Get in the fucking truck, ok pal!"
"But I'm an animal."
"You're a baseball glove! Get on that truck!"
"I'm an animal, I have rights!"
"Yeah, here's yer fucking cousin, get on the fucking truck, pal!"
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