"Of course it is! I am pleased you understand this, many do not." And will argue about it til the end of time, in fact, which drove Dio up the wall. Sometimes a good aggressive front was all that was required to get someone to back down and not bother with fighting at all!

The matter of live food draws a shrug; he's a vampire, he only makes do with the bagged snacks in the kitchen. "In this day and age people are divorced from where their meals come from. If it's not plastic wrapped at a market, it's uncivilized."