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)

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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