Michel de Montaigne on Cannibalism in literature

“The Cannibals and savage people do not so much offend me with roasting and eating of dead bodies, as those which torment and persecute the living.”

“I think there is more barbarism in eating men alive, then to feed upon them being dead; to mangle by tortures and torments a body full of lively sense, to roast him in pieces, and to make dogs and swine to gnaw and tear him... (as we have not only read, but seen very lately..., not amongst ancient enemies, but our neighbours and fellow-citizens; and which is worse, under pretence of piety and religion) then to roast and tear him after he is dead.”