8. Here is my plan. Of the one hundred twenty thousand poor
children born each year, twenty thousand should be kept for
breeding, one male for every four females. (This is more than
we allow for sheep, cows, or pigs.) The remaining hundred
thousand, when they reach one year, shall be sold to wealthy
people throughout the kingdom.
9. Their mothers must let them nurse as much as possible in the last month, to make them plump and fit for a gentleman's table. One twenty-eight-pound child should be enough for two dishes at a dinner party. If the family dines alone, the child will last several meals, and will still be very good on the fourth day,
boiled and sprinkled with a little pepper and salt.
The main idea of paragraphs 8-9:
