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3 on the cruel practices of the most savage animals; and apply their resources of mind and art to prolong the Miseries of the Victims of their appetites, skinning, roasting, and boiling Animals alive, and torturing them without reservation or remorse, if they add thereby to the Variety or the Delicacy of their carnivorous Gluttonies. X. Because the natural Sentiments and Sympathies of human Beings, in regard to the Killing of other Animals, are generally so averse to the practice, that few men or women could devour the animals which they might be obliged themselves to kill; yet they forget, or affect to forget, the living endearments or dying sufferings of the creature, while they are wantoning over his remains. XI. Because the human Stomach appears to be naturally so averse from receiving the remains of Animals, that few could partake of them if they were not disguised and flavoured by culinary Preparation; yet rational creatures ought to feel that the prepared substances are not the less what they truly are, and that no disguise of food, in itself loathsome, ought to delude the unsophisticated perceptions of a considerate mind. XII. 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 twelve millions scantily, while animal Food is made the Basis of human Subsistence. XIII. Because Animals do not present or contain the substance of food in mass, like Vegetables; every part of their Economy being subservient to their mere existence, and their entire frames being solely composed of Blood necessary for Life, of