they decided they don't eat babies--(no veal for dinner) but they ordered lamb (baby loin lamb chops no doubt, but not stated)

Takes me back to my rabbit-raisin' days when people (adult women, mostly) would look at me with tears beginning to well up and say "How can you eat a bunny?"
After a few years I got tired of explaining farm economics 101 and resorted to "Roasted's good."
I had another farmer friend who had totally lost patience and would say "You don't cry over cows, do you?".

Did anyone else catch Swift's arithmetic error?