--- title: "Thomas Tryon (1634-1703) - IVU - International Vegetarian Union" description: "Thomas Tryon (1634-1703): Quotes: Refrain at all times from such Foods as cannot be procured without violence and oppression. For know that all the inferior Creatures when hurt do cry and send forth the complaints to their Maker or grand Fountain whence they proceeded." url: "https://ivu.org/international-vegetarian-union/resources/interviews/2618-history-renaissance-tryon.html" date: "2026-11-06T01:28:45+00:00" language: "en-GB" --- # Thomas Tryon (1634-1703) ![Thomas Tryon (1634-1703)](https://ivu.org/images/legacy/history/banners/history-renaissance-tryon.png)Quotes: Refrain at all times from such Foods as cannot be procured without violence and oppression. For know that all the inferior Creatures when hurt do cry and send forth the complaints to their Maker or grand Fountain whence they proceeded. Be not insensible that every Creature doth bear the Image of the great Creator according to the Nature of each, and that He is the Vital Power in all things. Therefore let none take pleasure to offer violence to that life, lest he awaken the fierce wrath and bring danger to his own soul. *- Wisdom's Dictates.* The inferior creatures groan under your cruelties. You hunt them for your pleasure, and overwork them for your covetousness, and kill them for your gluttony, and set them to fight one with another till they die, and count it a sport and a pleasure to behold them worry one another. *- Friendly Advice to the Gentlemen-Planters of the East and West Indies* - [Thomas Tryon, "Of Flesh,"](http://www.animalrightshistory.org/animal-rights-library/try-thomas-tryon/flesh.htm) chap. 2 in *Healths Grand Preservative…* (London, 1682) - [Thomas Tryon, "The Complaints of the Birds and Fowls of Heaven," ](http://www.animalrightshistory.org/animal-rights-library/try-thomas-tryon/birds.htm)chap. 5 in *The County-Mans Companion…* (London, 1684) - [Thomas Tryon, "Of Moyst Airs,"](http://www.animalrightshistory.org/animal-rights-library/try-thomas-tryon/airs.htm) in *Monthly Observations for the Preserving of Health* (London, 1688) - [Thomas Tryon, "Procure …Retain … Understand \[Dreams\]…"](http://www.animalrightshistory.org/animal-rights-library/try-thomas-tryon/dreams.htm) in *Pythagoras; His Mystick Philosophy Reviv'd…* (London, 1691) *- all above are links to Animal Rights History website* - **[Tryon's Letters](http://books.google.com/books?id=TGo1AAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=intitle:Tryon%27s+intitle:Letters&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&as_brr=1&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false),** Domestick and Foreign, to Several Persons of Quality, Occasionally Distributed in Subjects, Viz. Philosophical, Theological, and Moral. *(link to Google Books)* by Thomas Tryon (1634-1703), pub.1700 (see eg Letter XIX 'Of Flesh Broths', p.87) A note on this archive. The history section of this website is drawn from a body of legacy content originally compiled by John Davis, former manager of the International Vegetarian Union. It represents his curation of historical material, and in places includes passages written by him directly. Over the years, the IVU website has migrated between several different hosting servers. In the course of these migrations, a number of PDF files were unfortunately lost, and **some links to PDF documents may no longer function**. 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