“It is all the same with we women. We just give birth to the slaughtered.”— Michael Hirst, Torvi, Georgia Hirst, imdb.com
“Lambs go to slaughter. A man, he learns when to walk away.”— David Simon, The Greek, Bill Raymond, imdb.com
“The trifecta: weapon, ammo, and impaired judgment. Throw in a little domestic violence, and you have the perfect recipe for a family slaughter.”— Kevin Maynard, Dexter Morgan, Michael C. Hall, imdb.com
“Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that. Why should I be filthy and inhuman? Why should I be an accomplice in the wholesale horror and degradation of the slaughter-house?”— George Bernard Shaw, amazon.com
“I believe that the place where an animal dies is a sacred one. There is a need to bring ritual into the conventional slaughter plants and use as a means to shape people's behavior. It would help prevent people from becoming numbed, callous, or cruel. The ritual could be something very simple, such a…”— Temple Grandin, amazon.com
“And another reason to make sure we're not doing atrocious things at the slaughter plant is that if it is too easy to do something really atrocious to an animal; with the poor animal screaming and everything; the person who could do that might not have any problem torturing people. I remember one of…”— Temple Grandin, en.wikiquote.org