Excerpt from The Logic of Vegetarianism: Essays and Dialogues

Where slaughter'd beasts lie quivering, pile on pile,
And bare-armed flashers, bathed in bloody dew,
Ply hard their ghasly trade, and hack and hew,
And mock sweet Mercy's name, yet loathe the while
The lot that chains them to this service vile,
Their hands in hideous carnage to imbrue:
Lo, there! - the preacher of the Good and True,
The Moral Man, with sanctimonious, smile!
"Thrice happy beasts, " he murmurs, "'tis our love,
Our thoughtful love that sends ye to the knife
(Nay, doubt not, as ye welter in your gore!),
For thus alone ye earned the boon of life,
And thus alone the Moralist may prove
His sympathetic soul - by eating more."

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