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Vegan Deliciousness in LAX – Real Food Daily – Terminal 4

 Major congratulations to Ann Gentry & the team at Real Food Daily! 25 years of preparing delicious vegan dishes and now……… @AnnGentry – just tweeted – We opened up the first organic, #plantbased restaurant in any airport TODAY with my Real Food Daily at Los… http://fb.me/15o7PBFxe  https://twitter.com/RealFoodDaily Ann – ~ Check me out with our first customer, American Airlines pilot, Clark…The airline version of Mr. Kent! ~ Officially in biz at LAX American Airlines TODAY! Cheers to our…

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General/ vegan history/ vegetarian history

Veg(etari)an Marketing – promotional flyers – from 123+/- years ago.

. Members of  The London Vegetarian Society in 1891. (1) . Vegetarianism defined – circa 1890 ~ …….. growing slowly but surely to be a great factor in raising and purifying its age. It points towards PERFECT HEALTH. It points towards GENTLENESS, KINDNESS, HUMANENESS. It points towards SELF-CONQUEST. It gathers up the seeds that have been scattered by sages ever since the world began, and the jewels that are to…

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General/ Humor/ vegan history/ vegetarian history

Vegan Thanksgiving: The turkeys are free. ……but not the vegetables!

Updated –  Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday celebrated primarily in the United States and Canada as a day of giving thanks for the harvest and of the preceding year.  In 2016 Thanksgiving Day is on Thursday 24 November. At the Ernest Bell Library, we choose not to celebrate Thanksgiving Day ourselves – in respect for those communities & those individuals who suffered under the hands of the colonists, Back…

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General/ vegan history/ vegetarian history

Cathie & Dugald Semple – vegan pioneers!

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…

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Animal Rights/ vegan history/ vegetarian history

Remembering Vegetarian Pioneers – Henry S. Salt & Ernest Bell

Updated – Mon Oct 13, 2014 The Humanitarian League’s team has had a busy year –  promoting veganism, opposing vivisection & planting many trees. During the past 12 months The Ernest Bell Library has been given / has purchased more that 200 of the items on our main ‘Search List’ & has ‘found’ another 300+ items previously ‘unknown to us’. We now have more than 300 pieces of Ernest Bell’s own writings.…

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General/ vegan history/ vegetarian history

Remembering Vegetarian Pioneers – L. A. Hayter

………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Update Sunday 21 September 2014 – information received from Judith Brown Hancock. ~ Lawrence Ambrose Hayter’s birth was registered in Islington in the second quarter of 1893. The 1911 Census has him at “Sweet Briar”, Pixmore Way, Letchworth. His occupation is given as draughtsman (printer’s engraving). His father was Arthur William Hayter, his mother Edith Rose Hayter. Mr Hayter Snr was an organ builder. ~ …………………………………………………………………………………………………..   L. A.…

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