>Goetz bends his head to the side, and a feline self-satisfaction
>plays across his face.
>
>"For hundreds of millions of years - for billions of years on this
>planet - all creatures were either hunters or prey... Not only were
>you hunter or prey, but even if you were one of the hunters, even
>then you lived in fear of being prey. People can break away from
>that cycle, because we're the top animal on the planet... We do our
>killing today in the supermarket, we do it while sitting in a
>restaurant. When you sit there and order anything-chicken or fish or
>steak or anything-you have the power of life and death over an
>animal. You don't have to kill it anymore with your bare hands, or
>with a weapon. You kill with the power of your money.
>
>"I don't have a problem with food anymore," he observes. "...[Y]es,
>I think that eating less meat, or more vegetarianism, is very
>important to helping advance civilization. In fact, I personally
>think if people would stop eating meat it would solve - and I know
>this is going to sound outrageous to a lot of people - but I think
>it would solve, just to give a rough figure, a third of the problems
>on the planet...
>
>"We all know what we do," he almost whispers. "Whether at night in
>our dreams or when we're conscious, but we know. And for me
>personally - a rather funny thing - prior to becoming a vegetarian,
>when I was looking into a mirror, I couldn't look into my eyes for
>any period of time, and now I have no problem doing that. You know
>what you are. People tend to know what goes on."