"What more advance can mortals make in sin?
Deal to the calf that lies beneath the knife.
Looks up and from the butcher begs her life.
Deaf to the harmless kid, who, ere he dies.
All efforts to procure thy pity tries.
And imitates in vain thy children's cries."
Anonymous.
"No flocks that range the valley free,
To slaughter I condemn;
Taught by the Power that pities me,
I learn to pity them."
Goldsmith.
"It is a vulgar error to regard meat in any form
as necessary to human life."
Sir Henry Thompson.
"The anthropoids and all the quadrumana de-
rive their alimentation from fruits, grains, and
other succulent vegetal substances, and the
strict analogy between the structure of these
animals and that of man clearly demonstrates
his frugivorous nature."
Owen.
"Does it not shame you to mingle blood and
murder with nature's beneficent fruits? Other
carnivora, you call savage and ferocious–lions,
tigers and serpents–while yourselves come be-
hind them in no species of barbarity. And yet
for them murder is the only means of suste-
nance, whereas to you it is a superfluous luxury
and crime."
Plutarch.
