They're either dozily rabid predators reduced to a monolithic imperative — eat living flesh — or they're "stragglers," harmless catatonics piteously stuck at their former posts.
This is the scene in the movie where Barbara screams at Violet, "Eat the fish, bitch!" Barbara uses the catfish as a decoy, a distraction, repeating to Violet the imperative "eat your fish" until Ivy breaks her plate in frustration.
I do not expect to convert a single vegetarian or vegan to my viewpoint when I say that there is a human imperative to eat animal protein, despite the fact that the whole of our history bears this out.
Crisscrossing France, Ms. Varda interviews an unemployed, alcoholic truck driver who gleans from economic necessity; a chef who gathers herbs and fruit from the fields around his two-star restaurant; an ecological activist who feels a moral imperative to eat what others throw away, and artists who find inspiration in cast-off materials.
Do you: 1) Chat calmly to your date and say, reassuringly, "Mmm, these salt granules are simply delicious"? 2) Summon a waiter and explain that you must leave by 9.30pm for a show and it's imperative you eat very soon? 3) Tell the waiter you suffer from acute hypoglycaemic disorder, characterised by sudden urges to ram the chrome pepper-grinder up his fundamental orifice? 3.
Either way, it's imperative you eat a chocolate chip cookie today.
His links with the likes of Prince Kropotkin, the Russian anarchist, his personal copy of Marx's Capital, and his influence on British radicals from EP Thompson to Jeremy Deller are complacently wheeled out, as if we were all folk-song enthusiasts for whom the ethical imperatives of eating hand-woven food were beyond argument.
Obviously, some will argue there's an ethical imperative not to eat meat, but there's no moral argument for the opposite situation.
It is imperative that patients eat a meal when they take a dose of rapid-acting insulin to avoid experiencing severe hypoglycemia due to the excess insulin.
Despite being "undead," he is still subject to the same physiological imperatives as humans — to eat and to sleep.
