"... all professional ideologies are high-minded. Hunters, for instance, would not dream of calling themselves the butchers of the woods."

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I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the necessity of discharging the duties of a butcher would be so inexpressibly painful and revolting, that if they could obtain a flesh diet on no other condition, they would relinquish it forever.

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky