A Modest Proposal

I started reading the article and put it in perspective that it was written in the 18th century in an oppressed country because there would be no way this article would be accepted if it were written today. The readers he was writing to were peasants that were starving and barely surviving and needed a solution. Swift said in his article that he couldn't think of one objection to his proposal and to me this seems really hard to believe, everyone must be in desperate need during this time to accept his proposal.
When I read the article I found it to be really disturbing. I was amazed that people could actually eat another human being. The fact that he was talking about how babies taste good with a little salt and pepper on them and you can just stick them in the oven is disturbing and gross. He talked about cooking babies as if they were like a pig or chicken.
I believe that if this proposal did get accepted then women would just keep giving birth and they would sell their babies as food to get money instead of getting a real job. And eating babies would become a normal thing, babies soon will be considered as a dish instead of a living, breathing, human being and with no more people entering the world the population would drastically fall. Another thing I found interesting about the article was the last sentence that said that he didn't have any babies and couldn't have any more children which means he doesn't have to worry about his children being eaten so hes trying to convince people to eat their children but he will never have to eat his own.

Worldcat recommendation:
Read, Piers Paul Alive;The Story of the Andes Survivors., Philadelphia, Lippincott. 1974