During [a press conference w/ Goodall in Korea] I [Goodall] brought up the issue of the Korean practice of eating dog meat. The translator went quite pale. "I do not think you should talk about this," she said. "We are quite sensitive about this." Well, of course I knew that. I assured her it would be okay, and she translated my message: "You know, in America and Europe people think that the Chinese and Koreans are very cruel because they eat dogs." There was a hush, and all the faces in front of me became tense and closed. "Well, in America and Europe people eat pigs. Pigs are every bit as intelligent as dogs. They can become friends with people, just as dogs can. I do not think it is ethically any worse to eat dogs than it is to eat pigs. If we eat animals at all, then surely the most important thing is how we treat them while they are alive, and how mercifully we kill them.

JULES: Pigs are filthy animals. I don't eat filthy animals.

VINCENT: But bacon tastes good, pork chops taste good...

JULES: Hey, sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie,
But I'd never know 'cause I wouldn't eat the filthy motherfuckers.
Pigs sleep and root in shit, that's a filthy animal.
I don't eat nothin' that ain't got sense enough to disregard its own feces.

VINCENT: How about a dog? A dog eats its own feces

JULES: I don't eat dog either

VINCENT: Yeah, but do you consider a dog to be a filthy animal?

JULES: I wouldn't go so far as to call a dog filthy, but it's definately dirty.
But, dogs got personality, personality goes a long way.

VINCENT: So by that rationale, if a pig had a better personality, he would cease to be a filty animal. Is that true?

JULES: We' have to be talkin' 'bout one charmin' motherfuckin' pig.
I mean he'd have to be ten times more charmin' than that Arnold on Green Acres, you know what I'm sayin'?