Meat spirits

I've never eaten a great deal of meat, and as a teenager I actively disliked steak, but you certainly couldn't call me a vegetarian. This, however, this is pretty convincing:

'those fierce, revengeful spirits that proceed from the Creature, when the painful agonies of death are upon it... fail not to accompany the flesh, and especially the blood, and have their internal operation, and have their impression on those that eat it'. (Thomas Tryon)

Gives a whole new spin to black pudding...