Very funny (silly) indeed! Postmarked 1934. Père “Judognon” understood the importance of self-promotion for restaurant owners & business owners. There was no HappyCow in the 1930s to help restaurateurs to get ‘bums on seats’. We cannot trace the restaurant now – if anyone has any information about it, please share it with us. We are sure that some folk had ‘uplifting meals’ there in the 1930s! Très drôle en effet!…
“Vegetative” – an adjective – meaning – “relating to vegetation or plant life” Here we share, for the first time on the Internet, an 1849 letter. From the Reverend William Metcalfe to Joel Shew. Writing to propose that there be an American Vegetarian Society. The original of the letter is in our Ernest Bell Library. ~ And now, Mr. Editor, may I be permitted to ask you, and the friends…
“I look crazy but I’m not. And the funny thing is that other people don’t look crazy but they are.” – eden ahbez Postcards of Gustaf Nagel – circa 1915 A taster of some of our Ernest Bell Library items – celebrating mavericks – many were raw vegans. Wandervogel – or Naturmenschen were a group of late 19th and early 20th century Germany and Swiss “Natural Men”, who wore…
Here is an article from 1896 – unattributed – but written very much in the style of Edith Carrington – proposing ‘networking’ for better-financing humanitarian projects. The author reflects specifically on the challenges of funding a humanitarian monthly magazine / journal. Building audiences – attracting paying advertisers – carefully managing & expanding your projects – the advice can be adjusted slightly & applied to many different great projects today, it is…
(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…
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,…
~ 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
~ 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…