"However artistic the arrangement of the dinner-table, however immaculate the tablecloth and faultless the dinner-service, the disagreeable thought must... sometimes occur to the artistic mind that the beef was once an ox, the mutton... a sheep, the veal... a calf, and the pork... a pig. We may scrupulously... clean the outside of the cup and platter, but the recollection of the... interior will... cause... disquietude to our aesthetic repose. ...[T]hough we may ...be thankful for any reaction against the gross materialism and vulgarity of modern society, it may be doubted whether any class can be truly aesthetic which does not recognise in its creed the supreme importance of gentleness and humanity. The man who keenly sympathises with the suffering of dumb animals has a more truly aesthetic mind than many of our modern connoisseurs of " high art" who are inexpressibly pained by the sight of an ugly house or... inartistic... furniture, while they view with... equanimity a system of diet which necessitates the very ugly trade of the butcher."
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Henry Stephens Salt, A Plea for Vegetarianism and Other Essays (1886) the Vegetarian Society, pp. 33-34.
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