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352 that the prepared substances are not the less what they truly are, and none but savages could devour raw flesh, or kill and eat on the spot the quivering warm flesh of their victims, in itself loathsome.

XIV.

Because the forty-seven millions of acres in England and Wales would maintain in abundance as many human inhabitants, if they lived wholly on grain, fruits, and vegetables; but they sustain only fifteen millions scantily, while animal food is made the basis of human subsistence.

XV.

Because animals do not present or contain the substance of food in mass, like vegetables; every part of their economy being subservient to their own existence; arid their entire frames being solely composed of blood necessary for life, of bones for strength, of muscles for motion, and of nerves for sensation, just like ourselves.

XVI.

Because the practice of killing and devouring animals can be justified by no moral plea,