" When dissoluteness and disease abound  in a city, are not law courts an surgeries opened in abundance, and do not Lawyers and Physicians begin to hold their heads high…” SOCRATES

In this dialogue, Socrates was chating with Glaucon on the consequences of the replacement of a plant-based diet by a meat-based diet preferred by Glaucon. Socrates was explaining that a diet of barley, wheat, olives, figs, beans, myrtle berries, beech nuts and wine in moderation were all conducive the health contentement while an animal diet would lead to diseases, a sickness industry, legal strife and tension etc. Glaucon prefered to argue that the sacrifice of animals on the altar of human food was the way to go. (cf Plato’s Dialogue).