Cannibals? Who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Free that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Free, I say, in the day of judgement, than for thee, civilized and enlightened gourmand, who naivest geese to the ground and fastest on their bloated livers in thy pate de Foie gras.

Moby Dick