Mrs. Brisby: Owls eat mice!
Jeremy: Uh... only after dark.
"I am a nice shark, not a mindless eating machine. If I am to change this image, I must first change myself. Fish are friends, not food!"
— Bruce, Finding Nemo
"Sorry if I ever took a snap at ya. Fish gotta swim, birds gotta eat."
— Nigel the pelican to Nemo the fish, Finding Nemo
"Now I wanna remind everyone of the House of Mouse rules: No smoking, no villainous schemes, and no guests eating other guests."
— Mickey Mouse, House of Mouse
"I'm not a crook! I'm the last honest man in Bikini Bottom! We're all animals, boys and girls; eating each other is what nature intended!"
— Mr. Krabs, Robot Chicken (after it's revealed "Krabby Patties" are a literal name)
"Stop eating our young!"
— Lrrr, Futurama
"We weep for a bird's cry, but not for a fish's blood; blessed are those with a voice."
Jon: I hate movies about man-eating lions. How can an animal possibly prey on an innocent victim?
Garfield: Explain that to the chicken you had for dinner.
Garfield: Explain that to the chicken you had for dinner.
[GG is in the kitchen, making a turkey sandwich.]
Wren: [Wren sniffs the air.] Is that... turke... [He blinks in horror.] Oh, god.
Falkina: [Falkina dashes into the kitchen] YOU! BASTARD! STOP! COOKING! BIRDS! [Falkina most likely pummels GG... or fails]
Wren: [Wren sweatdrops] ...He's a harpy. It's only natural he doesn't react too well when you decide to cook birds/fowls/avians... etc.
[GG sidesteps Falkina.]
GG: Not! My! Problem! Do you see me complaining about people eating humans? No? So shut the hell up.
Wren: [Wren sniffs the air.] Is that... turke... [He blinks in horror.] Oh, god.
Falkina: [Falkina dashes into the kitchen] YOU! BASTARD! STOP! COOKING! BIRDS! [Falkina most likely pummels GG... or fails]
Wren: [Wren sweatdrops] ...He's a harpy. It's only natural he doesn't react too well when you decide to cook birds/fowls/avians... etc.
[GG sidesteps Falkina.]
GG: Not! My! Problem! Do you see me complaining about people eating humans? No? So shut the hell up.
Mr. Muffin: Hey Joey! You wanna eat me?
Joey: No thanks, Mr. Muffin.
Mr. Muffin: [cheerfully] But I wanna die!
Joey: No thanks, Mr. Muffin.
Mr. Muffin: [cheerfully] But I wanna die!
Pig: Were you ever thrown out of a club?
Rat: Plenty, why?
Pig: Because that "Society of Cultured Pigs" group just booted me.
Rat: They got word of the bacon thing, huh?
Pig: But BLTs taste so darn good.
Rat: They're too judgmental.
They serve fish in kitchen. Also, fish are guests on boat. Mafia try not to think about this.
— Mafia member, A Hat in Time
Danny: It’s always strange when the Muppets talk about eating animals; it makes you realize that the show takes place in a universe where everything talks. Even the vegetables talk. How could you ever eat anything? They must live on jellybeans or something.
Kynan: Don’t eat the Muppet jellybeans! Noooo! Not Purple Paul!
— This
ToughPigs review of A Muppet Family Christmas
ToughPigs review of A Muppet Family Christmas"Do you think it's weird that I like seafood? Since, if you think about it, technically I'M seafood?"
— Marina, an octopus villager in Animal Crossing: Wild World
Gwen: I can't believe you—I can't believe this...
Spider-Ham [While he's eating a corn dog] How come no one told me how amazing corn dogs are?
Gwen: That's—Can you please not do that? Look, I know you're imaginary and that's some kind of horrible metaphor, but it's still cannibalism.
Spider-Ham: No, I'm a cartoon. Cannibalism would be if I ate a Porky Pig.
Spider-Ham [While he's eating a corn dog] How come no one told me how amazing corn dogs are?
Gwen: That's—Can you please not do that? Look, I know you're imaginary and that's some kind of horrible metaphor, but it's still cannibalism.
Spider-Ham: No, I'm a cartoon. Cannibalism would be if I ate a Porky Pig.
— Spider-Gwen Vol. 2 #2
"Hey... Hey, I'm gonna eat your innards... AT LEAST GET A LITTLE INDIGNANT?"
— Grape Jelly Sandwich, toward a random barnyard cow, Housepets!
McDonald's Chorus: By the time this day ends, this one should do nicely. 'Cuz a bird on the grill, is worth more than two in the hat.
Birdie: You are supposed to be a friend to all in McDonaldland!
Ronald McDonald: You are a food that I serve fried to billions worldwide. So... you had to see this coming.
"They're far too expensive for my taste! But even if I were that rich, I don't think I would. I think I'd feel guilty... I mean, they're supposed to hatch into Neopets. It's a bit like cannibalism when you think about it."
"A chicken eating chicken? That's just sick."
—Will Smith points out the Fridge Logic of a chicken mascot for a fried chicken restaurant, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Soma: In nature, we have the predator-prey relationship. Taking this as an example of many other such relationships, we see one creature outright killing another for the sake of its own continued existence. Now, no one would take issue with me if I dined on a fillet of Magikarp, but I believe I would immediately be burned at the stake if I attempted to consume, say, you. So the question becomes: at which point does a normal hunt become murder?
Mulberry: You claim sapience is the answer to this question?
Soma: Sapience is the attempt at answering the question. The line has to be drawn somewhere, otherwise we are left with two extremes that are not desirable. All meat is murder, in which case carnivores starve, or no meat is murder, in which case you could kill anyone you wanted so long as it was for food purposes.
Mulberry: You claim sapience is the answer to this question?
Soma: Sapience is the attempt at answering the question. The line has to be drawn somewhere, otherwise we are left with two extremes that are not desirable. All meat is murder, in which case carnivores starve, or no meat is murder, in which case you could kill anyone you wanted so long as it was for food purposes.
Melon: DID YOU SERIOUSLY TAKE A BITE OUT OF MY FUCKING HEAD?
Cesar: Oh, my bad, I was hungry.
Melon: SO YOU TOOK A BITE OUT OF MY HEAD.
Cesar: I can do it again.
Melon: FINE
Melon: I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THINGS WOULD END UP THIS WAY.
Cesar: Oh, my bad, I was hungry.
Melon: SO YOU TOOK A BITE OUT OF MY HEAD.
Cesar: I can do it again.
Melon: FINE
Melon: I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THINGS WOULD END UP THIS WAY.
Of course, as is the case in similar stories with anthropomorphic animals, you have the moral quandary of intelligent animals eating other intelligent animals. If they were all humans instead of animals, this whole thing would be highly disturbing, but they're not, so it's not. So I guess it's okay for a talking fox to eat a talking mouse. I know it's a convention we're pretty used to by now, but that doesn't mean it isn't weird.
Tiramisu: I mean, have you ever heard of a "chicken person" or a "pork person"? We wouldn't eat meat that came from anything part-human! It'd be illegal!
Treat: ...It's an issue of legality?
Treat: ...It's an issue of legality?
Leslie: You know, you should seriously consider becoming a carnivore.
Penny: Why?
Leslie: Because before it ends up on your plate, [Shows a picture of a carrot being peeled] this is what they do to vegetables!
Penny: [Uninterestedly] Mm… humm… yeah. I’m not sure that baloney is such a good option though.
Leslie: Well at least I’m not eating my own kind…
— The Amazing World of Gumball, “The Flower”
