“I am not sorry we note the barbarous horror of [cannibalism], but grieved that, prying so narrowly into [the Tupinambá’s in Brazil] faults, we are so blinded in ours. I think there is more barbarism in eating men alive than to feed upon them being dead; to mangle by tortures and torments a body full of lively sense, to roast him in pieces, to make dogs and swine to gnaw and tear him in mammocks (as we have not only read but seen very lately, yea and in our own memory, not amongst ancient enemies but our neighbors and fellow-citizens; and, which is worse, under pretense of piety and religion), than to roast and eat him after he is dead.”

– Michel de Montaigne. Of Cannibals, 1850