He outlines a very complex economic system for selling and eating poor children, and offers statistical support for his assertions and gives specific data about the number of children to be sold, their weight and price, and the projected consumption patterns. “I calculate there may be about two hundred thousand couples whose wives are breeders; from which number I subtract thirty thousand couples who are able to maintain their own children…for we can neither employ them in handicraft or agriculture” (Swift, 84). He suggests some recipes for preparing this delicious new meat, and he feels sure that innovative cooks will be quick to generate more. He also anticipates that the practice of selling and eating children will have positive effects on family morality. “This would be a great inducement to marriage, it would increase the care and tenderness of mothers toward their children, and we should see an honest emulation among the married women…men would become fond of their wives during pregnancy as they are now or their mares in foal” (Swift, 87). He suggests that eating and selling children is a simple idea and the implementation of it would save all aspects of social and economic
He outlines a very complex economic system for selling and eating poor children, and offers statistical support for his assertions and gives specific data about the number of children to be sold, their weight and price, and the projected consumption patterns. “I calculate there may be about two hundred thousand couples whose wives are breeders; from which number I subtract thirty thousand couples who are able to maintain their own children…for we can neither employ them in handicraft or agriculture” (Swift, 84). He suggests some recipes for preparing this delicious new meat, and he feels sure that innovative cooks will be quick to generate more. He also anticipates that the practice of selling and eating children will have positive effects on family morality. “This would be a great inducement to marriage, it would increase the care and tenderness of mothers toward their children, and we should see an honest emulation among the married women…men would become fond of their wives during pregnancy as they are now or their mares in foal” (Swift, 87). He suggests that eating and selling children is a simple idea and the implementation of it would save all aspects of social and economic