Vegetarians used to be even accused of being possessed by the devil

Vdifferent ponds rippled on the floors. The pigs squeal, and the bloody carcasses of their fellow species hang from meat hooks from the ceiling. The sight that unfolded in the London slaughterhouse sickened the Englishman Thomas Tryonia (1634–1703) so much that he could no longer imagine putting an animal that had been killed in such a cruel way into his mouth.