You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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