The walkers — zombies — in The Walking Dead are DEAD. They are not vampires or otherwise sentient beings who, for some reason, came back to life. They are corpses that are reanimated and “run by” a virus. read more
A vegetarian human would not become a vegetarian zombie, nor a Muslim human a Muslim zombie, nor a sadomasochist human a sadomasochist zombie, etc. (** Now, there is one sort of weird exception to this, which profoundly affected me back when I saw it, and it’s a shame the show didn’t make more out of it. read more