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Richard St. Barbe Baker

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THE HEALTH OF VEGANS

A trip back to the 1990s & earlier. Remembering pioneering vegans. With links to great ‘sources’ for folk who like to go deeper! Firstly – a circa 1993 vegan leaflet by Kathleen Jannaway Note – the black text is all Kathleen’s – the original leaflet was only text – the images we have selected / added. “THE HEALTH OF VEGANS” When, in 1944, a small group of vegetarians became aware…

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General/ vegan history/ Veganism/ vegetarian history

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…

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