{"id":453,"date":"2007-12-12T10:00:46","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=453"},"modified":"2007-12-12T10:00:46","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T14:00:46","slug":"453","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/12\/453\/","title":{"rendered":"Thought for the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>One thing is quite certain. It is impossible for flesh-eaters to find any justification of their diet in the plea that animals might be slaughtered humanely; it is an obvious duty to carry out the improvements first, and to make the excuses afterwards. Those who admit that the Vegetarian, in his indictment of the slaughter-house, hits a grievous blot in our civilisation, often try to escape from the inevitable conclusion on the ground that such allegations tell not against the use of animal food, but against the ignorance, carelessness, and brutality too often displayed in the slaughter-houses. This, however, is a libel on the working men who have to earn a livelihood by the disgusting occupation of butchering. The ignorance, carelessness, and brutality are not only in the rough-handed slaughtermen, but in the polite ladies and gentlemen whose dietetic habits render the slaughtermen necessary. The real responsibility rests not on the wage slave, but on the employer. &#8220;I&#8217;m only doing your dirty Work,&#8221; was the reply of a Whitechapel butcher to a gentleman who expressed the same sentiments as those I have quoted. &#8220;It&#8217;s such as you makes such as us.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Henry S. Salt (1851-1939) Excerpted from &#8220;The Humanities of Diet&#8221; (Manchester: The Vegetarian Society, 1914), serialised on The Grumpy Vegan and available in full at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animal-rights-library.com\/index.htm\">Animal Rights Library<\/a>. Learn more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.henrysalt.co.uk\/index_old.html\">Henry Salt<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing is quite certain. It is impossible for flesh-eaters to find any justification of their diet in the plea that animals might be slaughtered humanely; it is an obvious duty to carry out the improvements first, and to make &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/12\/453\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thinking","tag-thought-for-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}