“We live in a speciesist society, all of us do. We regard humans as being ultra-special, such that cannibalism is an absolute, total no-no. And yet if you think about the fact that we all are evolved beings, we are cousins of all living creatures, if by any chance the intermediates between humans and other species we’re all living still (they just happen to be extinct, but if they weren’t), we would they have to decide does this one count as human, can we eat that one or is that one too human? As it happens, we don’t have to face this dilemma because the intermediates are all extinct, therefore we [are biased towards being] speciesist.”

— Richard Dawkins, interview and Q&A in Greece (April 26, 2015)