"We don't eat living things. The thought is horrible to us." "I have nothing to say against that, theoretically. But do you really sustain your bodies on water?" "Supposing you could find nothing else to live on, Maskull—would you eat other men?" "I would not." "Neither will we eat plants and animals, which are our fellow creatures. So nothing is left to us but water, and as one can really live on anything, water does very well."
