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…
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…
Donald Watson Reads 1st copy of Vegan News – later to become The Vegan. Picture by Joseph Connolly. “The great need is for the movement to accept a logical and consistent objective to which all can aim, and then use its energies to make the realisation of the objective possible, easy, and safe.” – Donald Watson Today, we are sharing an article by Donald Watson. It dates from early 1948.…
BE DISCERNING BE DETERMINED and dare to BE VEGAN! – G. Allan Henderson …… In 1944, 100% vegetarian Fay Keeling Henderson & G. Allan Henderson were the source of the new word ‘vegan’ – in collaboration with Dorothy and Donald Watson & other friends. Dorothy and Donald Watson are relatively well-known to the huge & diverse 2016 vegan community. Source – see p11 Today, with the help of items in our Ernest Bell Library…
Allvega & Allvegan To Vegan The 1944 creation of the word Vegan is usually credited to Dorothy and Donald Watson. Dorothy & Donald Watson getting married. However, in the Vegan News, February 1945 edition, Donald Watson says that two of the Vegan Society’s original members (founding members), Fay Keeling Henderson and G. Allan Henderson, were the source of the idea for the word Vegan. ~ Before the appearance of the first…
Time travel – back 68 years to Vegetarian Central London 1947. These 5 restaurant businesses had all survived WW2. Kudos to all of the owners & their teams! Sharing a few items from our Ernest Bell Library archives. The ‘London Vegetarian Society’ in 1947 – minus most of its archives as its previous home had been destroyed in the ‘Blitz’ 6 years earlier in 1941. 5 places to eat –…
Ernest Bell Library items – ‘Joys Of The Simple Life’ by Dugald Semple. Published by Ernest Bell in 1915. Happy 100th Birthday to ‘Joys Of The Simple Life’ 1915 – 2015 Dugald Semple (1884 – 1964) was a co-founder of ‘The Vegan Society’ with Dorothy & Donald Watson in 1944. Donald Watson wrote about Dugald in the first ever issue of The Vegan News – “Our friend and fellow member Dugald…
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…
From – Life in the Open – a 1919 book. “Eggs were meant to produce chickens and not omelettes; and cow’s milk is a perfect food for a calf, but most assuredly not for a grown-up human being“. The Vegetarian Messenger & Health Review, p. 237 – Dugald Semple – 1912. In our Ernest Bell Library, one beautiful shelf is specifically dedicated to the books and articles of Cathie & Dugald Semple. Over the next…