From sacrifice all mobile and immobile creatures take their birth. For this reason it has been heard by us that food is the foremost of all things.
तस्मात् सर्वाणि भूतानि स्थावराणि चराणि च। तस्मादन्नं विशिष्टं हि सर्वेभ्य इति विश्रुतम्॥