John Edmundson, Author at HappyCow

Animal Rights/ Celebrity Interviews/ General/ Veganism

Growl: The Animal Rights Memoir and Manifesto by Kim Stallwood

A campaign is running for – Growl on indiegogo.com – please click. In his Foreword, Queen’s rock legend Brian May, says Growl “…opens the door to a world based on compassion, our greatest hope for us and our children, and our children’s children.” Growl on indiegogo.com – please click. Kim says – Why Growl? Growl is the book I wish I could have read when I went vegan and got involved with animal rights…

June 12, 2014 (Last Updated: June 16, 2014) By John Edmundson

General/ vegan history/ vegetarian history

WWII Era Peaceful Humorous Veggies – American Vegetarian Party – The American Vegetarian Magazine

We love eccentric vegetarian folk! Here is a post remembering E. L. Pratt, John Maxwell & Symon Gould – 3 very focused US & British veg-evangelizers – active in the 1930s, 1940s & 1950s. Wonderfully extreme! They each exhibited / practiced full-on veg-enthusiasm. Plus we will share 3 related circa 1947 Cinderella stamps promoting vegetarianism. They are being lovingly cared for in the Ernest Bell Library. …… “Many meat-eating persons…

May 26, 2014 (Last Updated: March 1, 2016) By John Edmundson

Animal Rights/ General

Edith Cole & William Wallace Kelly – Anti-Vivisection Celebrities – 100+ years ago!

“Think of me as pleading with the Vivisectors for the dear dogs I love so well.” – Edith Cole (1861? – 1927) The photo is by – Mons Sala Arbus, Reading. M(argaret Solom)ons & Sala Arbus, 40 Friar Street, Reading. – opticians & photographers. To-date we have discovered almost nothing else about these photographers – but they sound ‘interesting’. Sala Arbus. London Gazette. No link whatsoever found to the rather more famous photographer Allan Arbus (or to Diane Arbus! The Ernest Bell…

May 13, 2014 (Last Updated: February 26, 2016) By John Edmundson

Animal Rights/ General

“Light in Dark Places: Anti-Vivisection from the Victorian Era to Modern Day”

In this post I really wanted to ‘expand’ the famous 1913 photo – just having names underneath was not enough for me – these were incredible personalities & they have been almost forgotten – some don’t even have their own Wikipedia pages yet. Bob Ingersoll & his team / family members greatly influenced Henry S. Salt & Ernest Bell & ………..so many others. Lizzy Lind af-Hageby was quite remarkable. The…

May 7, 2014 (Last Updated: October 21, 2015) By John Edmundson

General/ Veganism/ Video

Brazilian Prank: Sausages Made From Live Piglets!

People who cannot deal with the reality of ‘meat’. One of our favorite videos. We are posting it here because it is not so widely known. Enjoy & please share! Please link & like & Tweet & G+ & copy & paste & share this very widely with friends! More pig related & other vegan humor – here! ——— The Ernest Bell Library is actively preserving & sharing: – items related…

April 19, 2014 (Last Updated: November 11, 2019) By John Edmundson

General/ vegan history/ vegetarian history

Donald Watson Article – Spring 1948 – The Vegan Magazine

The Ernest Bell Library has a passion for sharing excellent quality vegan articles / items – making them easily available to 21st C folk. Most early books & magazines on veganism were originally only published in the hundreds or in the low-thousands of copies. Wars, weather, insects, careless humans, etc. have combined to make many of them very hard to find. Photo – Donald Watson reads the 1st ever copy of The Vegan…

April 11, 2014 (Last Updated: November 11, 2019) By John Edmundson

General/ vegan history/ vegetarian history

LIVING THE SIMPLE LIFE – By Dugald Semple – Vegan 108 Years Ago

~ Personally, I began rather drastically over 50 years ago by cutting out not only all meat or flesh foods, but milk, eggs, butter, tea and coffee. Cheese I have never eaten; indeed I hate the very smell of this decayed milk. Next, I adopted a diet of nuts, fruit, cereals and vegetables. On this Edenic fare I lived for some ten years, and found that my health and strength…

April 4, 2014 (Last Updated: November 11, 2019) By John Edmundson

Animal Rights/ General/ vegan history/ vegetarian history

Henry S. Salt was “…The First Writer To Consider The Issue Of Animal Rights Explicitly, As Opposed To Better Animal Welfare.”

Animals’ Rights Considered in relation to social progress – with a bibliographical appendix by Henry S. Salt. Published 1892 by G. Bell in London, New York . This is one of the most handled & most admired items in our Ernest Bell Library. ——— A contemporary review of the book Animals’ Rights The Times, October 27, 1892 Books of the Week ~ While the subject of vivisection is so…

April 3, 2014 (Last Updated: November 11, 2019) By John Edmundson

General/ vegan history/ vegetarian history

Asenath Nicholson – ‘Vegan in New York’ in the 1830s – Missionary, Philanthropist And Traveler

I add bold red to some text to emphasize vegan-ness. J ___________________________________________ ~ “My reason for objecting to every species of matter to be used as food, except the direct produce of the earth – as maybe seen in my last publication – is founded on the broad ground that no other matter is suited to the organs of man. This applies then with the same force to eggs, milk, cheese, and fish,…

March 29, 2014 (Last Updated: September 7, 2020) By John Edmundson

Animal Companions/ Animal Rights/ Animals

“Bob”, a London wolfhound mongrel, escapes from a famous vivisector’s clutches!

Re-introducing “Bob”. 88 years after he achieved fame in human circles. This postcard is a much admired & much loved item in our Ernest Bell Library archives. In November of 1926 Ernest Basil Verney FRS (22 August 1894 – 19 August 1967) was about to experiment on “Bob” at University College London – …..somehow they forget to mention anything about this in their history page! “Bob’s” story ……was told in the London U.K. House of…

March 11, 2014 (Last Updated: November 21, 2015) By John Edmundson

Animal Rights/ vegan history/ vegetarian history

Preventing Cruelty to Animals – 1840 style.

Reflecting on ugly humans wearing silk, wool etc. ~ How proud we are, how fond to shew our clothes, and call them rich and new, when the poor sheep and silkworms wore that very clothing long before! The tulip and the butterfly appear in gayer coats than I: Let me be dressed fine as I will, flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still. ~ Isaac Watts circa 1700 A little reminder…

March 8, 2014 (Last Updated: November 11, 2019) By John Edmundson

General/ vegan history/ Vegan Parenting/ Veganism/ vegetarian history

Humor – 10+ Years Of Dan Piraro

Vegan Video Dan Piraro from bizarro.com a really awesome video. A talking pig explains why eating meat is bad for you. 900,000+ views to date. Interviewed Q – Was it difficult going from omnivore to vegan without being a vegetarian first? Dan – It has to do with the kind of person you are, the kinds of experiences you have, and the guidance you get. I gave up eating animal…

February 12, 2014 (Last Updated: September 22, 2018) By John Edmundson

General/ vegan history/ vegetarian history

Vegan ‘Butter’ In 1894 AKA Margarine – With A Big Thank You To Napolean (The Third One)! – Historical Vegan Marketing Campaigns

The Vegan Age In 2014 we have vegan products made by wholly vegan companies. Veg(etari)ans & Food Reformers in the 19th century enjoyed very few manufactured, tongue-enticing ‘convenience’ foods. Some of the items quoted here are close to 120 years old. Here at the Ernest Bell Library we really enjoy seeing really great examples of marketing; especially when they were done for humanitarian / vegetarian / vegan etc. products, publications…

February 8, 2014 (Last Updated: November 12, 2019) By John Edmundson

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