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“Sooner or later, we’ll all be on the menu.” - Rod Serling, The Twilight Zone (“To Serve Man”)
It Was reported that UN peace keeping force were practising cannibalism ~ N
“When I see bacon, I see a pig, I see a little friend, and that’s why I can’t eat it. Simple as that. But I’ll eat Linda’s veggie bacon. All her food was so good. Steve Martin came around for a barbecue once. I was grilling and he said, “Oh, no, I can’t have any of that.” I asked why not and he said, “Sorry, I’m vegetarian.” I said, “You didn’t know we are?! Everything on the grill is veggie!” He said, “Ahhh” and ate three veggie burgers and then asked where he could buy them. " - Paul McCartney, Animal Times interview, Fall, 1998
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I feel amused why the delight of pseudo meat eating does not abandon such serious Vegetarians like Paul Macartney ~ N
“So then Mom decided my father ought to do a vegan diet, too. Well, my father grew up on a cattle ranch, but the nice thing is, my dad’s been sitting at the same dinner table for fifty-one years, and he can’t find his way around the kitchen! He’s been reying my Mom for fifty-one years to put he plate in front of him. So Mom went to the local health food store and bought hot dogs that are called “Not Dogs” and veggie burgers – which used to tast like cardboard, but now the’re really good. She she can get Canadian bacon made of a wheat derivative. It’s all vegetarian. Instead of cow’s milk, it’s soy milk, rice milk, fake eggs – all that stuff! Dad just keeps cleaning his plate. Now i’ve got two vegetarian parentes, and only one of them know it!” - Neal Barnard, M. D, Wramc Us Too, Inc Newsletter, 2003
# You American doctors are getting more civilized, i must observe !! ~ N
“Go veg—for animals, for your health, for life. " – Masta Killa from Wu-Tang Clan, from the pro-vegetarian add he did for PETA
# ~for being Human for being Religious for Being Divine Immortals ~ N
“It is the position of the American Dietetic Association and Dietitians of Canada that appropriately planned vegetarian diets are healthful, nutritionally adequate and provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases. " - American Dietetic Association, (from their website www.eatright.org)
Big deal !!
“In fact, my best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet. Moreover, by continuing to eat a vegan diet, my weight is under control, I like the way I look. (…)I regained my energy. I was drinking 24 to 32 ounces of juice a day. I ate no dairy products. And I had my best year as an athlete ever! (…) I know that many people think that eating a vegetarian diet - and especially a vegan diet – will require sacrifice and denial. Jannequin Bennett demonstrates in this book that eating vegan does not have to be tasteless and boring. " – Carl Lewis, Excerpt from Carl Lewis’ introduction to Very Vegetarian, by Jannequin Bennett
# Learn about aroma and spices from the Indians ! Indians have many great traditions of Vegetarian Cooking. ~ N
“To any thinking person, it must be obvious that there is something badly wrong in relations between human beings and the animals that human beings rely on for food; and that in the past 100 or 150 years whatever is wrong has become wrong on a huge scale, as traditional animal husbandry has been turned into an industry using industrial methods of production. (…)It would be a mistake to idealise traditional animal husbandry as the standard by which the animal-products industry falls short: traditional animal husbandry is brutal enough, just on a smaller scale. A better standard by which to judge both practices would be the simple standard of humanity: is this truly the best that human beings are capable of? " - J.M. Coetzee, Animals can’t speak for themselves - it’s up to us to do it, February 22, 2007
# Surely we need to speak for them ~ We shall Not KIll and Eat them divine Creations in Themselves ~ N
“Yeah, yeah, it means the same idea, that I don’t eat meat. You should only eat what you need. You can change your whole physiological makeup, you know, and you become almost dirty, dirty, you know, from what you eat. You know, the more red meat and blood we eat, the more bloodthirsty we get, the more violent we get. The more vegetarian food that we eat, the more peace is taken into us. " - Ziggy Marley, PETA2.com interview
# But That is why All Should become Vegetarians! Both Islam And Christianity Cease to exist without gross meat eating !! ~ N
" The meat industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars lying to the public about their product. But no amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat. The facts are absolutely clear: Eating meat is bad for human health, catastrophic for the environment, and a living nightmare for animals” – Chrissie Hynde from The Pretenders, in the PETA website
Surely We can expect more and more meat caused diseases ~ Mad Cow’s is just the beginning~ Earth will be forced to become vegetarian by these divine catastrophes ~ N
“So-called farms today treat animals like so many boxes in a warehouse, chopping off beaks and tails and genitals with no painkillers at all, inflicting third-degree burns repeatedly by branding cows, … and just a horrible catalog of abuses that, if done to dogs or cats, would be illegal on grounds of animal cruelty.” – James Cromwell, in the PETA website
# It Is not funny ! This terrible cruelty ! ~ N
“I think and speak clearer since I cut the dairy out. I can breathe better and perform at a better rate, and my voice is clearer. I can explore different things with my voice that I couldn’t do because of my meat and dairy ingestion. I am proud and blessed to be a vegetarian. Everything became clear. - Common, interview for PETA
# I have thousands of years of Vegetarianism embedded in my genetic code ~ I am a proud Indian ~ N
“Animals and humans suffer and die alike. Violence causes the same pain, the same spilling of blood, the same stench of death, the same arrogant, cruel, and brutal taking of life. - Dick Gregory, PETA website
# Surely Dick Gregory ! Let us Practise ancient Ahimsa ! ~ N
“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.” - Henry David Thoreau, On Civil Disobedience
# Surely killing animals and eating them is Immoral ~ N
“I was watching an HBO special on eating habits and different cultures, and they showed in China how people eat cats, and I’m really fond of cats, and I happened to be sitting on the couch with my cat, and once I saw that, it just put everything in perspective. If I wouldn’t eat my cat what’s the difference between eating a cat or a cow? If certain animals are considered lesser than, so are certain people and that’s not really fair. And the root of that is to consider life on equal terms across the board.” - Ben Kenney, from a PETA video with The Roots
# Can you imagine how you all look to the Indians with thousand(s) of years of Explicit vegetarianism. In fact lot of caste distinctions and even untouchability had to do with food habits~ How can i dine together with the beef eater or a donkey or mouse eater ? ~ N
“Those who claim to care about the well-being of human beings and the preservation of our environment should become vegetarians for that reason alone. They would thereby increase the amount of grain available to feed people elsewhere, reduce pollution, save water and energy, and cease contributing to the clearing of forests. When nonvegetarians say that “human problems come first” I cannot help wondering what exactly it is that they are doing for human beings that compels them to continue to support the wasteful, ruthless exploitation of farm animals.” - Peter Singer, On Animal Liberation
# Surely they are reasons But Ahimsa and Kaarunyam are the real basic reasons ~ N
“Man alone consumes and engulfs more flesh than all other animals put together. He is, then, the greatest destroyer, and he is so more by abuse than by necessity. Instead of enjoying with moderation the resources offered him, in place of dispensing them with equity, in place of repairing in proportion as he destroys, of renewing in proportion as he annihilates, the rich man makes all his boast and glory in consuming, all his splendour in destroying, in one day, at his table, more matenal than would be necessary for the support of several families. He abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work only to satisfy the immoderate appetite and the still more insatiable vanity of this human being who, destroying others by want, destroys himself by excess. - George Buffon,L’Histoire Naturelle
Surely ~ But You become Vegetarian for divine aesthetic reasons too! Ahimsa! ~ N
“I’ve been a vegan singe i was about 3 years old and involved in animal rights for years. I’ve seen a number of animal rights films throghout the years, nona has affected me as profoundly as Earthlings. " – Joaquin Phoenix , interview from the official Earthlings website
# It Is human to be Vegetarian. Animal eaters are cannnibals ! ~ N
“There’s so many animals, there’s not enough land any more and everything’s swamped with pesticides and fertilizers… It’s destroying just about everything - topsoil, wildlife, water, birds. If everyone went veggie we’d need only about half the amount of land and we could have real forests and wild places again…. Animals use up huge amounts of water and there are billions of them. You can feed ten times the number of people on the food they give to animals… If you can feed ten times the number of people by not passing food through animals first and then killing them. That’s got to make people think… It’s sucking in the world’s supplies of grain and soya which are needed for people. It’s costing lives. That’s why we’ve got to get our message out there.” – Paul McCartney, PETA interview
All this logic is unimportant ! Just Don’t Kill An animal and eat it! N
“Men fed upon meat, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways. Their main insanity express in the fury of shed the blood of his brothers and to devastate fertile lands to rule over cemeteries.” - Voltaire, On The Princess of Babylon, Chapter III
Very True cher ami Voltaire ~ N ~
The indifference of children towards meat is one proof that the taste for meat is unnatural; their preference is for vegetable foods, such as milk, pastry, fruit, etc. Beware of changing this natural taste and making children flesh-eaters, if not for their health’s sake, for the sake of their character. For however one tries to explain the practice, it is certain that great meat-eaters are usually more cruel and ferocious than other men. This has been recognized at all times and in all places. The English are noted for their cruelty while the Gaures are the gentlest of men. All savages are cruel, and it is not their customs that tend in this direction; their cruelty is the result of their food. They go to war as to the chase, and treat men as they would treat bears. Indeed in England butchers are not allowed to give evidence in a court of law,no more can surgeons. Great criminals prepare themselves for murder by drinking blood. Homer makes his flesh-eating Cyclops a terrible man, while his Lotus-eaters are so delightful that those who went to trade with them forgot even their own country to dwell among them.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, from Emile or On Education
# Absolutely True ~ Rousseau ~ It is uncivilized to eat meat ! Did Rousseau continue eating meat? ~ N
“It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.” - Albert Einstein, letter to Vegetarian Watch-Tower, December 27, 1930
Was Einstein vegetarian or was he a kosher lover ? ~ N
“I, for my part, wonder of what sort of feeling, mind or reason that man was possessed who was first to pollute his mouth with gore, and allow his lips to touch the flesh of a murdered being; who spread his table with the mangled forms of dead bodies, and claimed as daily food and dainty dishes what but now were beings endowed with movement, with perception and with voice. For the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that portion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.” - Plutarch, Moralia.
Great Plutarch ~ N
“(Of the mouth of man which is a tomb) there shall come forth loud noises out of the tombs of those who have died by an evil and violent death.” - Leonardo da Vinci, (Prophecies).
Surely Leornado ~ It looks credible to me! ~ N
“Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that.” - George Bernard Shaw, (The Vegetarian, 15 January 1898)
Yes are appreciated Bernard Shaw! But we Indians have eternity of vegetarian traditions. ~ N
" We cannot pretend that we do not know this. We are not ostriches, and cannot believe that if we refuse to look at what we do not wish to see, it will not exist. This is especially the case when what we do not wish to see is what we wish to eat. If it were really indispensable, or, if not indispensable, at least in some way useful! But it is quite unnecessary, and only serves to develop animal feelings, to excite desire, and to promote fornication and drunkenness. And this is continually being confirmed by the fact that young, kind, undepraved people—especially women and girls—without knowing how it logically follows, feel that virtue is incompatible with beefsteaks, and, as soon as they wish to be good, give up eating flesh.” - Leo Tolstoy, Essays and Letters, The First Step
Humane Leo Tolstoy ~ Does not Christianity encourage all its adherents to eat the slaughtered cows of Brindavan ? ~ N
" The destruction of animals for food, in its details and tendencies, involves so much of cruelty as to cause every reflecting individual—not destitute of the ordinary sensibilities of our nature—to shudder. - William A. Alcott, On Vegetable Diet
Surely We shudder together. ~ N
" God gave our first parents the food He designed that the race should eat. It was contrary to His plan to have the life of any creature taken. There was to be no death in Eden. The fruit of the trees in the garden was the food man’s wants required.” - Ellen G. White
Of course Ellen. God Bless You. Please remember innumerable Indians are vegetarians out of a divine tradition ~ N
" All wholsom food is caught without a net or a trap. " – William Blake, on The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Of Course Dear Blake ~ N
“How can one, who eats the flesh of others to swell his flesh, show compassion?” - Tiruvalluvar, Tirukkural: 251
Athuve Brahmana Sathiyam ~ N
“As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.” - Pythagoras
# Surely So venerable Pythagoras ~ N
“I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilised.” - Henry David Thoreau (On Walden)
Surely, the Great Indian(s) are the most civilized with eternities of vegetarian traditions ! India will become a Vegetarian Nation out of Grace. It will signify Apocalypse. ~ N
“As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: In their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.” - Isaac Bashevis Singer (On Enemies, A Love Story)
Of course Issac you are true! Learn from the Glorious Indian Tradition(s).~ N
“It is demonstrated that brutes are rational animals, reason in most of them being indeed imperfect, of which, nevertheless, they are not entirely deprived. Since, however, justice pertains to rational beings, as our opponents say, how is it possible not to admit, that we should also act justly towards brutes?” - Porphyry, On Abstinence from Animal Food
Surely Abstain from all animal eating ! Become Divine ~ N
" Grant animals a ray of reason, imagine what a frightful nightmare the world is to them: a dream of cold-blooded men, blind and deaf, cutting their throats, slitting them open, gutting them, cutting them into pieces, cooking them alive, sometimes laughing at them and their contortions as they writhe in agony. Is there anything more atrocious among the cannibals of Africa? To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of men. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous.—And that is the unpardonable crime. " - Romain Rolland, On Jean-Christophe
# Of Course senor Romain Rolland: it is an eternally unpardonable crime~ N
“Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.” - Albert Schweitzer (The Philosophy of Civilisation)
Absolutely ~ That is the beginning of peace ! Ahimsa! Then Shaanthi ~ N
" My mother was convinced and on this head I have retained her firm belief, that to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state; that it is one of those curses cast upon man either by his fall, or by the obduracy of his own perversity.” - Alphonse de Lamartine, On Les confidences
Glory To your divine mother dear Alphonse ! ~ N
“Until the age of twelve, then, I only lived on bread, milk-food, vegetables, and fruit. My health was not less robust on this account, nor my growth less rapid, and it was to this diet, perhaps, that I was indebted for that purity of feature, that exquisite sensibility of feeling, and that quiet gentleness of humor and character which I had preserved up to that period.” - Alphonse de Lamartine, On Les confidences
Alas ! You ate animals after that ! How sad ! ~ N
" It is not a digression to mention the horrors of war in connection with the massacre of cattle and carnivorous banquets. The diet of individuals corresponds closely to their manners. Blood demands blood. On this point any one who searches among his recollections of the people whom he has known will find there can be no possible doubt as to the contrast which exists between vegetarians and coarse eaters of flesh, greedy drinkers of blood, in amenity of manner, gentleness of disposition and regularity of life.” - Elisée Reclus, On Vegetarianism
Deeply Felt Elisee ! Be Blessed ~ N
“It is often said, as an excuse for the slaughter of animals, that it is better for them to live and to be butchered than not to live at all. Now, obviously, if such reasoning justifies the practice of flesh-eating, it must equally justify all breeding of animals for profit or pastime, when their life is a fairly happy one. (…) In fact, if we once admit that it is an advantage to an animal to be brought into the world, there is hardly any treatment that cannot be justified by the supposed terms of such a contract. Also, the argument must apply to mankind. It has, in fact, been the plea of the slave-breeder; and it is logically just as good an excuse for slave-holding as for flesh-eating. It would justify parents in almost any treatment of their children, who owe them, for the great boon of life, a debt of gratitude which no subsequent services can repay. We could hardly deny the same merit to cannibals, if they were to breed their human victims for the table, as the early Peruvians are said to have done.” - Henry Stephens Salt, On The Humanities of Diet
Very True Henry ~ N
" With respect to animal diet, let it be considered, that taking away the lives of animals, in order to convert them into food, does great violence to the principles of benevolence and compassion. This appears from the frequent hard-heartedness and cruelty found amongst those persons, whose occupations engage them in destroying animal life, as well as from the uneasiness which others feel in beholding the butchery of animals.” - David Hartley, On Observations on Man, His Frame, His Duty, and His Expectations
Yes David ~ Practise Ahimsa ~ N
" I became a vegetarian because I was persuaded that life is as valid for other creatures as it is for humans. I do not need dead animal bodies to keep me alive, strong and healthy. Therefore, I will not kill for food.” – Scott Nearing, On The Making of a Radical
Of course Scott ~ Ancient Indians were silent radicals ~ N
“And yet (would you believe it?) I have seen the very men who have thus boasted of their tenderness, at the same time devouring the flesh of six different animals tossed up in a fricassee. Strange contrariety of conduct! They pity, and they eat the objects of their compassion!” - Oliver Goldsmith, On The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith
Very Terrible Oliver Goldsmith! Om Namo Maitreya Buddhaaya ! ~ N
" I have often thought, if it was not for this tyranny which custom usurps over us, that men of any tolerable good-nature could never be reconcil’d to the killing of so many animals for their daily food. - Bernard Mandeville, On The Fable of the Bees
True ! You can learn from the Indians ~ N
“As for me, I could never so much as endure, without remorse and griefe, to see a poore, sillie, and innocent beast pursued and killed, which is harmelesse and voide of defence, and of whom we receive no offence at all. - Montaigne, Of Cruelty
That is European tradition ! Beef more beef ! Alas!
“I refuse to eat animals because I cannot nourish myself by the sufferings and by the death of other creatures. I refuse to do so, because I suffered so painfully myself that I can feel the pains of others by recalling my own sufferings.I feel happy, nobody persecutes me; why should I persecute other beings or cause them to be persecuted? I feel happy, I am no prisoner, I am free; why should I cause other creatures to be made prisoners and thrown into jail? I feel happy, nobody harms me; why should I harm other creatures or have them harmed? I feel happy, nobody wounds me; nobody kills me; why should I wound or kill other creatures or cause them to be wounded or killed for my pleasure and convenience?(…) I think that men will be killed and tortured as long as animals are killed and tortured. So long there will be wars too. Because killing must be trained and perfected on smaller objects, morally and technically.” - Edgar Kupfer-Koberwitz, Animals, My Brethren (written in the Concentration Camp Dachau, in the midst of all kinds of cruelties)
Very Heartfelt Edgar ~
" When about 16 Years of Age, I happen’d to meet with a Book written by one Tryon, recommending a Vegetable Diet. I determined to go into it. (…) My refusing to eat Flesh occasioned an Inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity.” - Benjamin Franklin, On Autobiography
That is great Benjamin
" For all we know that English people are/ Fed upon beef - I won’t say much of beer/ Because ’tis liquor only, /and being far/ From this my subject, has no business here; / We know too, they are very fond of war,/ A pleasure - like all pleasures - rather dear;/ So were the Cretans - from which I infer/ That beef and battle both were owing her.” - Lord Byron, Don Juan
Beef ! Alas Beef ! Om ~ N
" And before we judge of them too harshly we must remember what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has wrought, not only upon animals, such as the vanished bison and the dodo, but upon its inferior races. The Tasmanians, in spite of their human likeness, were entirely swept out of existence in a war of extermination waged by European immigrants, in the space of fifty years. Are we such apostles of mercy as to complain if the Martians warred in the same spirit?.” - H.G. Wells, On The War of the Worlds, Chapter I
Yes ! The white racist greed ! N
" In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughter-houses. And, in a population that is all educated, and at about the same level of physical refinement, it is practically impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig. We never settled the hygienic question of meat-eating at all. This other aspect decided us. I can still remember, as a boy, the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughter-house." - H.G. Wells, On A Modern Utopia Chapter the Ninth, The Samurai, Section 5
Of Course The Utopia must be vegetarian~ Hello HG why don’t you acknowledge the ancient Indians for their greater moral sense ! ~ N
“Perhaps a man hitched to the cart of a Martian or roasted on the spit by inhabitants of the Milky Way will recall the veal cutlet he used to slice on his dinner plate and apologize (belatedly) to the cow.” - Milan Kundera, from The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Yes Milan ! I am a proud Indian and you can cast your pseudo Freudian thinking and become humane! You have taken the first definite step.
“Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, nothing so surely unmortars a society; nothing, we might plausibly argue, will so harden and degrade the minds of those that practice it. And yet we ourselves make much the same appearance in the eyes of the Buddhist and the vegetarian. We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions, and organs with ourselves; we feed on babes, though not our own; and the slaughter-house resounds daily with screams of pain and fear. We distinguish, indeed; but the unwillingness of many nations to eat the dog, an animal with whom we live on terms of the next intimacy, shows how precariously the distinction is grounded.” - Robert Louis Stevenson, In the South Seas, Chapter XI
Of Course Robert ~ Be Blessed ~ N
“Although most of us conduct our lives as omnivores, in that we eat flesh as well as vegetables and fruits, human beings have characteristics of herbivores, not carnivores . The appendages of carnivores are claws; those of herbivores are hands or hooves. The teeth of carnivores are sharp; those of herbivores are mainly flat (for grinding). The intestinal tract of carnivores is short (3 times body length); that of herbivores, long (12 times body length). Body cooling of carnivores is done by panting; herbivores, by sweating. Carnivores drink fluids by lapping; herbivores, by sipping. Carnivores produce their own vitamin C, whereas herbivores obtain it from their diet. Thus, humans have characteristics of herbivores, not carnivores.” – William C. Roberts, M.D.,, Twenty questions on atherosclerosis
Human beings are herbivores ~ The satanic ones eat animals ~ N
“In the next ten years, one of the things you’re bound to hear is that animal protein … is one of the most toxic nutrients of all that can be considered.” – Dr. T. Colin Campbell
Definitely meat eaters are going to get innumerable deadly diseases. ~ N
“I like animals, all animals. I wouldn’t hurt a cat or a dog—or a chicken or a cow. And I wouldn’t ask someone else to hurt them for me. That’s why I’m a vegetarian.” - Peter Dinklage, in a PETA vegetarian-testimonial
That is very Indian Brahamin Buddhist Jaina attitude ~ Ahimsa ~ N
“Chickens, pigs, and other animals … are interesting individuals with personalities and intelligence. … What people need to understand is that if they’re eating animals, they are promoting cruelty to animals.” – Pamela Anderson, in the PETA website
Obvious ! But Keep it up Pamela ~
" Like my friend the Doctor, I have lived temperately, eating little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principle diet" - Thomas Jefferson, letter written on March 21, 1819 to Dr. Vine Utley
But You become vegetarian for divine aesthetic reasons. Not merely health reasons ~ “Thou shall not kill” ~ N
" Everything of persecution and revenge between man and man, and everything of cruelty to animals is a violation of moral duty." - Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
Of course Thomas ~ The ancient Indians were beyond the age of reason! ~ N
“To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify luxury and tickle callous and rank organs, must require a rocky heart, and a great degree of cruelty and ferocity. I cannot find any great difference between feeding on human flesh and feeding on [other] animal flesh, except custom and practice.” -