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Le Végétalien – does anyone have a copy of this old French newspaper?

(Update 3 August 2014) Notes on French vegan history. Click the links to go to the original pages which are in French! Notes sur l’histoire française végétalien. Cliquez sur les liens pour accéder aux pages d’origine sont en français! ‘Bascon’ – a vegan – nudist – communist / anarchist – commune in Essômes-sur-Marne – near – Chateau-Thierry – France – between 1911 to 1931. & ‘Foyer’, located 40 rue Mathis (19th…

July 31, 2014 (Last Updated: October 10, 2016) By John Edmundson

Animal Rights/ General/ vegan history/ vegetarian history

The Ernest Bell Library, Our Etymological Past, Sixpences, Dogs and Anti-Vivisection

Finding amazing creations / art such as this ~ 105 years old postcard gives us a real ‘buzz’. 100+ years ago truly great people were enthusiastically working / networking for animals – spreading the vegan message – opposing vivisection & much more. More about this postcard below! All of the books, magazines, leaflets, postcards etc. mentioned & pictured in this blog post are being preserved in the Ernest Bell Library,…

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

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Why I am a Vegetarian by Richard St. Barbe Baker 1957

Richard-St.-Barbe-Baker-preparing-to-plant-trees-in-Nairobi-Kenya-in-1953

~ I am convinced that the vegan way of life is the only sane way of life, and realising that the basic cause of tension is growing populations and diminishing food sources, for the past ten years I have devoted much of my time to studying the question of food production and the problems of large scale land reclamation by tree planting. ~ Richard St. Barbe Baker – writing in…

July 15, 2014 (Last Updated: October 21, 2015) By John Edmundson

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Art for Animals and Networking

Some June 2014 acquisitions at the – Ernest Bell Library. . All are pre-1910. . ……yes – they are part of a larger collection which we are now cataloging. . Play – ‘Spot the Differences’ . Those on the left were painted & then printed in Argentina for – Sociedad Protectora de Animales Sarmiento – Estd. 1902. . Those on the right were painted & then printed in France for – Société Protectrice des…

July 14, 2014 (Last Updated: February 20, 2020) By John Edmundson

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How To Balance Animal Rights And Animal Welfare?

Let us seriously consider: – How to balance animal rights and animal welfare? First a quote from a 2014 book which I am very fond of – ~ I ask myself continuously how to balance the utopian vision of animal rights with the pragmatic politics of animal welfare. For the sake of the animals, I always take the side of rights over welfare; however, there are times, particularly in the political arena, when welfare…

July 7, 2014 (Last Updated: July 24, 2016) By John Edmundson

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1970s Vegans & GROWL

1976 – BBC2 & The Vegan Society in the Open Door series. The programme led to over 9000 enquiries about veganism resulting in around 1,000 new members of the Society. From The Vegan- Autumn 1994 page XX “In the middle of December, the BBC invites the Society to contribute an Open Door programme to be broadcast on 31 January (repeated 7 February). Kathleen Jannaway and Jack Sanderson spend much of January working…

June 30, 2014 (Last Updated: October 21, 2015) By John Edmundson

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 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

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