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Forks had not been invented yet, so people used fingers ... pulses and wine—staples in both ancient and modern Greek diets. He presented five golden rules for cooking and eating that remain valuable ...

This means that killing animals for food is done purely for the pleasure derived from eating meat. Sextius believed that killing animals for pleasure makes people develop the habit of cruelty.