compassion_for_all

“Really, when one thinks of these unfortunate and brutalised men, thus condemned by modern civilisation' - Heaven save the mark !—to pass their days in the midst of spectacles and practices so foul and loathsome, taking part daily in wholesale massacres, and living only to take away life, it is impossible not to conclude that such men are deprived of all chance of becoming themselves civilised, and are consequently disinherited of their human rights, and defrauded of their human dignity. And not only the slaughterers themselves, but all those who are directly or indirectly associated with this abominable traffic - cattle-drivers and dealers, meat-salesmen, their apprentices and clerks-all these live in familiar, if not exclusive, contact with practices and sights of the vilest and most hideous kind; all these are condemned to the degradation or suppression of the most characteristic features of Humanity.”
― Anna Kingsford, Perfect Way in Diet: A Treatise Advocating a Return to the Natural and Ancient Food of our Race

“1. A given area of ground, consecrated to the culture of corn, vegetables, and fruit, and to pasturage sufficient to meet the needs of a non-flesh-eating people, would yield provision capable of sustaining a population about six times greater than the same area as at present dis- tributed.
2. A vegetable dietary, to which even cheese, butter, and milk are added, costs per head three or four times less than a mixed dietary of flesh and vegetables.
Hence the economy of land, the economy of expense, and consequently both national and private wealth and prosperity would be enormously increased by a return to the dietetic habits indicated as natural to man by his physical structure and by his moral instincts.”
― Anna Kingsford

“Butchers are the Pariahs of the western world; the very name itself of their trade has become a synonym for barbarity, and is used as a term of reproach in speaking of persons notorious for brutality, coarseness, or love of bloodshed. The common exclamation, 'What a butcher is So-and-so!' in reference to such men, betrays the horror and reprobation with which are instinctively regarded the followers of a trade created and patronised chiefly by the 'refined' classes!”
― Anna Kingsford, Perfect Way in Diet: A Treatise Advocating a Return to the Natural and Ancient Food of our Race

“Man is the master of the world, and may make it what he will. Into his hands it is delivered with all its mighty possibilities for good or evil, for happiness or misery. Following the monitions and devices of the sub-human, he may make of it - what indeed for some gentle and tender souls it has already become a very hell; working with God and Nature, he may reconvert it into Paradise.”
― Anna Kingsford, Perfect Way in Diet: A Treatise Advocating a Return to the Natural and Ancient Food of our Race