An essay on abstinence from animal food, as a moral duty / By Joseph Ritson.
- Q6286581
- Date:
- 1802
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An essay on abstinence from animal food, as a moral duty / By Joseph Ritson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![the horfe, and the ram, he changeés from its na- tural condition by a barbarous and cruel opera-_ tion |, after receiveing the emoluments of his la- bour and fertility, he rewards with death, and - then feeds upon his carcafe ! Many other fpecies, though not commonly ufe’d as food, are dayly masfacre’d in millions for the purpofeés of com- merce, luxury, and caprice. Myriads of qua-» drupeds are annually deftroy’d for the fake of -their furs, their hides, their tufks, their odori- ferous fecretions, &c. Over the feather’d tribes, the dominion of man is not lefs [ufurpingly] ex- tenfive. By hisfagacity and addrefs he has, been enable’d to domesticate turkeys, geefe, and the various kinds of poultry. Thefe he multiplys without end, and devours at pleafure. [Others he imprifons in cagees to, afford him. the melody of their fong.] Neither. do the inhabitants of the waters efcape the rapacity of man. neither air nor water can defend againft the ingenuity, the art, and the deftructive industry of the hu- man fpecics.. -In artificial ponds, he, feeds, and rears.carp, tench, perch, trout, and other fpecies, and with them, occafiona ally, furnifhes his table [which even rivers and feas are conftantly drain’d to fupply ]. Next to man the carnivorous qua-_ drupeds are the moft numerous and the moft = ftructive. “Dil ‘ferent parts of the earth are in-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33088494_0048.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
