That the use of animal food disposes man to cruel and ferocious action is a
fact to which the experience of ages gives ample testimony . . . The barbarous
and unfeeling "sports" (as they are called) of the English - their
horse-racing, hunting, shooting, bull and bear baiting, cock-fighting, prize
fighting, and the like, all proceed from their immoderate addiction to animal
food. Their natural temper is thereby corrupted, and they are in the habitual
and hourly commision of crimes against nature, justice, and humanity, from which
a feeling and reflective mind, unaccustomed to such a diet, would revolt, but
in which they profess to take delight. - Essay upon Abstinence