Boiled Baby?

Did you know that Jonathon Swift once proposed that the solution to poverty in Ireland was to kill unwanted babies, then butcher them for their meat and fine leather for the rich! The main stock of catholic peasants would be farmed, allowing one male to regularly service four females and thus keep a constant supply of babies for the marketplace. The pamphlet that Swift published was called "A Modest Proposal" It was supposed to be satire, but I'm not so sure. It also mentions reducing the number of "papists among us"