> wrote

> " This, then, is the benign attitude of the Philosopher towards the Pig;
> and what shall be the reply of the Pig to the Philosopher? "Revered
> moralist," he might plead, "it were unseemly for me, who am to-day a
> pig, and to-morrow but ham and sausages, to dispute with a master of
> ethics, yet to my porcine intellect it appeareth that having first
determined
> to kill and devour me, thou hast afterwards bestirred thee to find a moral
> reason. For mark, I pray thee, that in my entry into the world my own
> predilection was in no wise considered, nor did I purchase life on
condition
> of my own butchery. If, then, thou art firm set on pork, so be it, for
pork
> I am: but though thou hast not spared my life, at least spare me thy
> sophistry. It is not for his sake, but for thine, that in his life the Pig
is filthily
> housed and fed, and at the end barbarously butchered.""

Well done! Thanks for posting that again, it does such a beautiful job of
illustrating the sophistry of "The Logic of the Larder".