Advertising Card – Undated – Circa 1900 Ernest Bell Library item – — Dis, père, qu’est-ce que ces gens-là qu’on appelle des végétariens? — Ce sont ceux qui vivent de carottes. — Hey, dad, what are these people called vegetarians?— It is those who live on carrots. Size – 7.5 cm by 11.2 cm. Lithograph by – J. Minot & Cie Editeurs. 5 Rue Béranger, Paris. ……………………………………………………………… Louit Frères et Compagnie…
This blog post remembers the work of two of our favorite animal rights activists. Almost 90 years ago, they were structuring a ‘special society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Cats’, ……and the work continues today – http://www.cats.org.uk/ ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… The Cats’ Protection League – a group of likeminded people led by Jessey Wade who were devoted to promoting the interests of domestic cats. Jessey Wade – the first Chairman Ernest Bell –…
Han Kang – an interview – subtitled Han Kang’s ‘The Vegetarian’ wins Man Booker fiction prize – Monday 16 May 2016 South Korean author Han Kang won the Man Booker International Prize for fiction this week with “The Vegetarian,” an unsettling novel in which a woman’s decision to stop eating meat has devastating consequences. “The Vegetarian” is the first of her books to be translated into English. It tells the story of…
BREAKING NEWS – More Than 542,000 Vegans In Britain …… The Vegan Society – click here. …… THE TELEGRAPH – click here. Some 542,000 people aged 15 or over – more than one per cent of the population – have adopted a plant-based diet, up from 150,000 in 2006. According to the Vegan Society, the survey proves that veganism is now one of Britain’s “fastest growing lifestyle movements”. …… FEMALEFIRST.CO.UK…
A conscientious worker strikes neither a child nor an animal, no defenseless being; he would not be a coward. A worker who strikes his horse has lost working-class solidarity; he mistreats a worker like himself; he abuses the beast he has the duty to care and protect, and thus shows his own boss an example of abusive exploitation of the weak by the strong, from which he will suffer in…
Examples of multi-faceted UK & US collaboration. From a time when animal abuse was just starting to receive mass-media coverage. Cruelty to Animals – “Which Are the Brutes?” by Alfred Rudolph Waud An illustration exposing cruelty to animals, published in – Harper’s Weekly, A Journal of Civilization, February 23, 1867. An item in our Ernest Bell Library – Striking artwork – produced almost 150 years ago. It would have been seen by…
An article by Ernest Bell, writing in Sept. 1914. First some notes – In this article, Ernest Bell is reflecting on his 40 years of being a vegetarian. He started to be an animal rights activist in ~ 1873. He had stopped eating meat in about 1874. He ‘veganized’ books which he published. His consumption of animal products such as milk seems to have been ‘O’. ~ …a little over twenty-five years… ~ – Ernest…
Note – we use ‘vegan’ and ‘vegans’ in inverted commas here, because we are discussing a period long before the word vegan came into existence. Even the word vegetarian was not yet in use. Pythagorean & Vegetable Eater / Eating – these were the commonly used terms. …… Our history is rich indeed. Circa 200 years ago in the UK – There had recently been a ‘vegan’ (or close to vegan) Sheriff…
Ernest Bell – from an editorial in the Animals’ Friend Annual Volume for 1907 “With regard to the Humane Diet there is also a great change of opinion and feeling going on. The “vegetarian” used, out of deference to public opinion, to have to speak a little humbly about his special “fad,” but now we find it is the carnivorous man who adopts the apologetic tone. If he poses at all as…
Pure Henry Brown Amos & Ernest Bell – a very rare survivor – the only example we have seen in the past 40+ years of collecting these old AR related items. Ernest Bell Library item – League for the Prohibition of Cruel Sports Badge – circa 1924 Brass & Blue Vitreous Enamel 25 mm wide by 20.5 mm high The 4 animals are – a Stag – a Hare –…
A grim ‘pro-fur’ item in our Ernest Bell Library. A circa 1870/1880 advertising card. Corde Viridis – thank you so much for the translation – Paul Körner Fur trader Specialty: various skin carpets with or without naturalised heads. Humans are selling the skins of animals, and we are pretty certain that the animals didn’t all die of old age. Lion, Tiger, Panther, Jaguar……. Current Prices – for skins with naturalised heads Lions skins…
Infant Industries – E. G. Lutz From – Life Magazine May 14, 1908. An item in our – Ernest Bell Library – please support us / help us to build & preserve our collection. Edwin George (E. G.) Lutz 1868-1946 Not much is known about E. G. Lutz’s life. Was he a plant eater? He certainly helped spread vegetarianism 100+ years ago. See another of his cartoons from 1911 at…
The Ernest Bell Library’s 1964 copy of Animal Machines. What convinced you to change to vegan? A review of this book, Animal Machines by Ruth Harrison, pictured above, convinced the remarkable vegan pioneer Kathleen Jannaway. Quotes from a 2003 article by Harry Mather and Malcolm Horne, remembering Kathleen Jannaway – http://www.veganviews.org.uk/vv96/vv96jannaway.html In 1964, Kathleen read a review of the book ‘Animal Machines’ by Ruth Harrison which revealed the cruel farming conditions of battery…