Lewis Gompertz Quotes

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First, how do you prove that mankind is invested with the right of killing them, and that brutes have been created for the purpose you assert them to be? Secondly, it is to be observed that the flesh of man himself possesses the same nourishing and palatable qualities? And are we then to become cannibals for that reason?

Lewis Gompertz

Lewis Gompertz

Lewis Gompertz

Born: 1783

Died: December 2, 1861 (aged 78)

Bio: Lewis Gompertz was an early animal rights advocate, a vegan, and a founding member in June 1824, of the English Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, later the RSPCA.

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