undignity

I can accept meat eating, but cruelty and undignity should not be something we inflict, above all when it is done pointlessly.

EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Sony’s promotion stunt with decapitated goat 2007

She seemed to have a like conception of the undignity of eating, for when she declined the proffered feast it was with the air of one who never ate at all, who never knew the pangs of appetite, but lived on something infinitely higher.

David Malcolm Nelson Lloyd 1903