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The raison d'être of vegetarianism is the growing sense that flesh-eating is a cruel, disgusting, unwholesome, and wasteful practice, and that it behooves humane and rational persons, disregarding the common cant about "consistency" and "all or nothing," to reform their diet to what extent and with what speed they can.
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...it is only by delegating to others the detested work of slaughter, and by employing cookery to conceal the uncongenial truth, that thoughtful persons can tolerate the practice of flesh-eating. If Nature pointed us to such a diet, we should feel the same instinctive appetite for raw flash as we now feel for ripe fruit, and a slaughter-house would be more delightful to us than an orchard.
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Vegetarian: But what of the meat—the thing cooked? What is it? What was it? And how did it come to be on your plate?
Æsthete: I never think of such questions. So long as it is nice, I am content. It must satisfy my taste, that is all.
Vegetarian: But are you sure that it does satisfy your taste in the same way that other things do? I think not, for you have never put it to the trial. In no other branch of art do you take things wholly on trust, but you try them by the standard of an independent and educated intelligence. In diet, and in diet only, you "shut your eyes and open your mouth," as the children say, and never distinguish between a real innate liking and the liking that is merely traditional.
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...imagine what the result would be, in studio and boudoir, dining-room and drawing-room, if the death-cries of the slaughter-house could be but once uncanned and brought to hearing.
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...for just as there can be no human rights where there is slavery, so there can be no animal rights where there is eating of flesh.
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...reform of diet is an indispensable branch of social organization, and that it is idle to talk of recognizing "rights of animals" so long as we unconcernedly eat them. Vegetarianism is no more and no less than an essential part in the highly complex engine which is to shape the fabric of a new social structure, an engine which will not work if a single screw be missing. The part without the whole is undeniably powerless; but so also, as it happens, is the whole without the part.
Chronology :
April 11, 2020 : Diet -- Added.
April 11, 2020 : Diet -- Updated.
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