Punch,  48 (1865), 218.

Herbivorous Ogres

Anon

Genre:

Notes, Drollery

Subjects:

Nutrition, Botany, Animal Behaviour


    Insists that the 'Teetotaller who is also a vegetarian may be accused of cannibalism' because a 'plant drinks nothing but water' and the teetotaller/vegetarian thus 'devours his own species' when he eats vegetables.



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