Mencius then said, "In your kitchen there is fat meat; in your stables there are strong horses. But your people look starved, and in the countryside there are people dead from famine. That amounts to leading beasts out to devour men.

Mencius then said, ‘In your kitchen there is fat meat; in your stables there are fat horses. But your people have the look of hunger, and on the wilds there are those who have died of famine. This is leading on beasts to devour men.

Mencius said, Fat flesh is in the kitchen, fat horses are in the stalls, but the people have a hungry look, and starved bodies lie in the wild. Thus beasts are led to eat men.

"There’s plenty of juicy meat in your kitchen and plenty of well-fed horses in your stable, " continued Mencius, "butthe people here look hungry, and in the countryside, they’restarving to death. You're feeding humans to animals.

There is plenty of fat meat in the kitchen, and abundance of fat steeds in the stable, but the people exhibit the picture of hunger, and the wastes are strewed with the bodies of those who have died of hunger. Thus the animals are led on to devour the people.