Making Light:  PETA ::: January 14, 2004, 01:13 AM

Speaking of the kingdomist bigots who spare the animals only to
massacre the vegetables, I'm glad I managed to track my memory back
to Dave Langford's "Load of Crystal Balls", in which he quotes "that
famous SF novel set in 1984, G. K. Chesterton's _The Napoleon of
Notting Hill_"

  ... Mr Mick not only became a vegetarian, but at length declared
  vegetarianism doomed ("shedding," he called it finely, "the green
  blood of the silent animals"), and predicted that men in a better
  age would live on nothing but salt.  And then came the pamphlet from
  Oregon (where the thing was tried), the pamphlet called "Why should
  Salt suffer?", and there was more trouble.  [1904]

Yum, the the green blood of the silent animals.