George Bedborough: Plant Eating: Animal Rights

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 plumes and beasts of fur 

We, charges of inhumanity incur. 

Fed with flesh meats and clad in skins of beast, 

Life and art suffer, and our health not least. 

The price, not the art of our dress, 

Is the anxious concern of our Press 

Which will praise all that pays, 

But denies its great prize, 

To a beauty which won’t advertise. ~

Read ‘The Atheist’ online – here – https://archive.org/details/atheistg00bedb

Related – 

Some of The First Ever Magazines For Vegetarian Children – Edited by George Bedborough – https://www.happycow.net/blog/the-first-ever-magazines-for-vegetarian-children/

A children’s story by George & biographical notes – https://www.happycow.net/blog/the-isle-of-vegetariana-by-george-bedborough-a-1913-story-for-children/