Quote#Nature
The destruction of animals for food, in its details and tendencies,…
Quote byWilliam Alcott · 1798–1859
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Vegetable Diet (1838), p. 267.
English (original)
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 Alcott
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