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Ben Franklin had until this point been a vegitarian. He is at this scene sitting on a bank with nothing to eat and men fishing, and eating said fish all around him.
“On this occassion I considered, according to my master Tryon, the taking of every fish as a kind of unprovoked murder, since none of them had done or could do us any injury that could justify this massacre. All this seemed very reasonable. But I had been formerly a great lover of fish, and when it came out of the frying pan it smelled admirably well. I balanced some time between principal and inclination, till, recollecting that when fish were opened I saw smalled fish taken out of their stomachs, then, thought I, ‘If you eat one another I don’t see why we may not eat you”; so I dined upon cod very heartily… So convienient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.
Ben Franklin
