Cock-fights and bull-fights, the chase of the hare and the fox, fishing, and other amusements of the same kind, necessarily suppose a want of reflection or a want of humanity; since these sports inflict upon sensitive beings the most lively sufferings, and the most lingering and painful death that can be imagined. (Jeremey Bentham, Theory of Legislation, Principles of the Penal Code, "The Culture of Benevolence," 1802)