Quotation by

Oscar Wilde

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

Food

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The speaker insists on eating animals that have been fully killed rather than those that are still alive but unwell or in the process of dying. This highlights a preference for certainty and finality in the state of the food before consumption.

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