“6. _Because_ the destruction of the mechanical organisation of vegetables inflicts no sensible suffering, nor violates any moral feeling, while vegetables serve to sustain his health, strength, and spirits above those of most carnivorous men. “7. _Because_ during thirty years of rigid abstinence from the flesh and juices of deceased sensitive beings, he finds that he has not suffered a day’s serious illness, that his animal strength and vigour have been equal or superior to that of other men, and that his mind has been fully equal to numerous shocks which he has had to encounter from malice, envy, and various acts of turpitude in his fellow-men. “8. _Because_ observing that carnivorous propensities among animals are accompanied by a total want of sympathetic feelings and gentle sentiments--as in the Hyæna, the Tiger, the Vulture, the Eagle, the Crocodile, and the Shark--he conceives that the practice of these carnivorous tyrants affords no worthy example for the imitation or justification of rational, reflecting, and _conscientious_ beings. “9. _Because_ he observes that carnivorous men, unrestrained by reflection or sentiment, even refine on the most cruel practices of the most savage animals [of other species], and apply their resources of mind and art to prolong the miseries of the victims of their appetites--bleeding, skinning, roasting, and boiling animals alive, and torturing them without reservation or remorse, if they thereby add to the variety or the delicacy of their carnivorous gluttony. “10. _Because_ the natural sentiments and sympathies of human beings, in regard to the killing of other animals, are generally so averse from the practice that few men or women could devour the animals whom _they might be obliged themselves to kill_; and yet they forget, or affect to forget, the living endearments or dying sufferings of the being, while they are wantoning over his remains. “11. _Because_ the human stomach appears to be naturally so averse from receiving the remains of animals, that few could partake of them if they were not disguised and flavoured by culinary preparation; yet rational beings ought to feel that the prepared substances are not the less what they truly are, and _that no disguise of food, in itself loathsome_, ought to delude the unsophisticated perceptions of a considerate mind. “12. _Because_ the forty-seven millions of acres in England and Wales _would maintain in abundance as many human inhabitants_, if they lived wholly on grain, fruits, and vegetables; but they sustain only twelve millions [in 1811] _scantily_, while animal food is made the basis of human subsistence.