Sir Richard Phillips's Reasons for not eating animal food, or any thing that has enjoyed sensitive life.

  • Phillips, R. (Richard), Sir, 1767-1840.
Date:
[between 1814 and 1855]
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Credit: Sir Richard Phillips's Reasons for not eating animal food, or any thing that has enjoyed sensitive life. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    IR RICHARD PHILLIPS’s REASONS dfm* tto* bating ANIMAI FOOD, OR ANY THING THAT HAS ENJOYED SENSITIVE LIFE. (written in 1814.) I. BECAUSE, being Mortal himself, and holding his Life on the same uncertain and precarious tenure as all other sensitive Beings, he does not feel himself justified by any supposed superiority, or inequality of condition in destroying the vital enjoyment of any other Mortal, except in the necessary defence of his own Life. Because the desire of life is so paramount, and so affectingly cherished in all sensitive Beings, that he cannot reconcile it to his feelings to des¬ troy, or become a voluntary party in the destruc¬ tion of any living Creature, however much in his power, or apparently insignificant* Because he feels an utter and unconquerable Re¬ pugnance against receiving into his stomach the Flesh or Juices of deceased animal organize tion. IV. Because he feels the same Abhorence against devouring Flesh in general, that he hears carni¬ vorous persons express against eating Human Flesh, or the flesh of dogs, cats, horses, or other