{"id":450,"date":"2007-12-09T09:54:42","date_gmt":"2007-12-09T13:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=450"},"modified":"2007-12-09T09:54:42","modified_gmt":"2007-12-09T13:54:42","slug":"450","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/09\/450\/","title":{"rendered":"Thought for the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

To show, however, that this question of the temporary use of animal products has not been shirked by food-reformers, I quote the following from my “Plea for Vegetarianism,” published nearly thirty years ago.<\/p>\n

The immediate object which food-reformers aim at is not so much the disuse of animal substances in general, as the abolition of flesh-meat in particular; and if they can drive their opponents to make the important admission that actual flesh-food is unnecessary, they can afford to smile at the trivial retort that animal substance is still used in eggs and milk. . . . They are well aware that even dairy produce is quite unnecessary, and will doubtless be dispensed with altogether under a more natural system of diet. In the meantime, however, one step is sufficient. Let us first recognize the fact that the slaughter-house, with all its attendant horrors, might easily be abolished; that point gained, the question of the total disuse of all animal products is one that will be decided hereafter. What I wish to insist on is that it is not ‘animal’ food which we primarily abjure, but nasty food, expensive food, and unwholesome food.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Henry S. Salt (1851-1939) Excerpted from “The Humanities of Diet” (Manchester: The Vegetarian Society, 1914), serialised on The Grumpy Vegan and available in full at the Animal Rights Library<\/a>. Learn more Henry Salt<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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