A bit of a ramble today! It may appeal to folk who are fond of a bit of animal related history! Henry S. Salt, standing up for cats – The Mieaou Club being reformed – Edith Carrington remembering Harrison Weir. Henry S. Salt & Edith Carrington were pioneers of vegetarianism (actually of veganism long before the word was invented) & of animal rights. Harrison Weir taught our great-grandparents to love…
Translated into Chinese at the request of several friends! Photo – Donald Watson reads the 1st ever copy of The Vegan News . (Picture by Joe Connolly – Veg News) The Vegan News – November 1944 純素新聞 (QUARTERLY MAGAZINE OF THE NON-DAIRY VEGETARIANS) (嚴格素食者的季刊) The recent articles and letters in “The Vegetarian Messenger” on the question of the use of dairy produce have revealed very strong evidence to show that the production of these foods…
Dr Neal Barnard – talking very sensibly with Klaus Mitchell of Plant Based News. Very clear thinking indeed from Dr. Neal Barnard – excellent questions form Klaus Mitchell. This qualifies as Vegan History! LINKS PCRM website: http://www.pcrm.org/ Food For Life website: http://www.pcrm.org/health/diets/ffl/ffl-the-power-of-food-for-health Related videos – Dr Michael Greger – talking very sensibly in the UK – https://www.happycow.net/blog/why-doctors-dont-recommend-veganism/ …… Our Projects The Henry Salt Archive is one of our, almost completed, projects. The Humanitarian League is…
I love all varieties of potatoes – especially baked sweet potatoes. Here are some baked potato memories: a favorite ‘street’ recipe: some historical references: some related items from our Ernest Bell Library: plus a good amount of rambling…… Message me if the “Simple Potato Oven” appeals to you! …… Baked Potato History – London – United Kingdom A baked potato is sometimes called a jacket potato in the United Kingdom. The baked potato…
We posted about Dr. Ellsworth Wareham two years ago, just before his 100th birthday – here. Dr. Wareham had his 102nd birthday a few days ago! Dr. Ellsworth Wareham ~ As a middle-aged man, Wareham spent a lot of time in the operating room cutting into one patient after another who had heart problems. There, he noticed something: patients who were vegetarian mostly had much cleaner and smoother arteries than those who ate…
Transcribed – …… A TIMELY PLEA: ADDRESSED TO THOSE WHO ARE ABLE TO THINK. “Methinks at meals some odd thoughts might intrude.” – Byron HARDWORKING men sometimes think there is a sort of merit in “not caring what one eats.” This is a fallacy; for though it is meritorious to be able to content oneself with plain fare, yet mere indifference about one’s food can only arise from stupidity or…
October 1 is World Vegetarian Day – it used to initiate the month of October as Vegetarian Awareness Month – ……but we can’t find much ‘buzz’ about it for 2016. October 1–7 used to be International Vegetarian Week (IVW) – especially in Europe – ……but some celebrated it in May this year. October 2 is World Farm Animals Day (WFAD). October 4 is The Feast Day of St. Francis of Assisi. November 1 is World Vegan Day…
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A section from ‘The Atheist’ by George Bedborough. The ‘Humanitarian League’ section! Truly one of my favorite ‘poems’. ~ Food is bought, So is drink, by a sort of intuition, With no heed of waste or malnutrition. Lambs are slaughtered, calves are bled, That our young may be ill-fed. Fruit, nuts and cereals which might save man Scarce find a place in his dietic plan. In robbing birds of…
Ernest Bell Library item – From the cover of a 1994 issue of Arkangel magazine – Number 12 – online copies can be read – here. Artist unknown – please share with us if you know who drew this. No copyright was claimed. DIRECT ACTION – RALLIES-PICKETS FLIP 90 DEGREES SANCTUARIES – VEGANISM FLIP 90 DEGREES FUNDRAISING – HUNT SABOTAGE FLIP 90 DEGREES HEALING-HOMING – CAMPAIGNING …… HIGHER RESOLUTION ………
Vegetarisme is eerbied voor het leven. Vegetarianism is reverence for life. An item in our Ernest Bell Library – A cinderella stamp – from the Netherlands by the artist Adrianua Jacoba (‘Adri’) Pieck (1894 – 1982). 38mm diameter – 3 color screen printing – hand cut. Circa 1920 / 1930 – unused In philately, a cinderella stamp is “virtually anything resembling a postage stamp, but not issued for postal purposes by…
Today, I will share a discussion between George D Rodger – a former CEO of the Vegan Society UK & Donald Watson – a co-founder of the Vegan Society. It shows the reader Donald Watson’s views of his friends, of the Society, and of wider animal rights issues. It is in our Ernest Bell Library as a typed transcript. Without changing any words, I have done my best to punctuate…
INTERVIEW WITH DONALD WATSON SUNDAY 15 DECEMBER 2002 Part Two (find Part One here) Recorded by George D Rodger GDR: Do you feel that all food production should be grown organically? DW: Well, ideally, yes. I think in a vegan world, of course, there wouldn’t be any animal manure on the scale that we have it now. I suppose we could always have a few animals, oh it would be…