Well indeed would it be if all kindly Christian people, who say ‘grace’ over their food, would think of the history of such a meal! If they would reflect on the agony of terror endured by imported cattle during the journey by sea or land; the disease too often engendered by the filth and misery of the voyage; the thirst, hunger, and despair, and, finally, the horrors of the slaughterhouse, if they would think of this, they would ask God to pardon them, at the end of their meal, and not to “make them truly thankful.
The great (agnostic) Henry S. Salt (1851 – 1939) writing in the second edition of The Herald published by the Order of the Golden Age.
