"Some People are not to be persuaded to taste of any Creatures they have daily seen and been acquainted with, while they were alive; others extend their Scruple no further than to their own Poultry, and refuse to eat what they fed and took care of themselves; yet all of them will feed heartily and without Remorse on Beef, Mutton and Fowls when they are bought in the Market."

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Source : "The Fable of the Bees". Book by Bernard Mandeville. Remark P, pp. 188-189, 1732.

Bernard de Mandeville

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