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The infamous declaration: 'a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled.'
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From A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
Swift's narrator unveils his shocking solution to Irish poverty: that the children of the poor be sold as food for the wealthy. This is the satirical core of the essay.
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Proposes 20,000 children be reserved for breeding, the rest sold for food at one year old.
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Suggestion that the skin may be used to make 'admirable gloves for ladies, and summer boots for fine gentlemen.'
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