" When Hans asks for more volunteers, half a dozen people step eagerly forward, but I am not one of them. I tell myself it’s because I should let the tuition-paying students, those who are here legitimately, get the experience, but the truth is that somewhere deep inside I don’t want to be a party to this slaughter, that I feel somehow less culpable as an observer than as a participant. Nonsense, of course. "

― Julie Powell , Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession