QUOTE : That a delicacy for the pampered was acquired through brutality was hardly news. By any civilized standard, it was how luxury ought to be measured - wealth meant nothing if it didn't create suffering. Because that standard liberal whine that the rich were cushioned from life's harsh realties was laughable ignorance: the rich created those realities, and made sure they kept on happening. That was what kitchens were for, along prisons, factories and public transport.