{"id":463,"date":"2007-12-01T02:26:18","date_gmt":"2007-12-01T06:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=463"},"modified":"2007-12-01T02:26:18","modified_gmt":"2007-12-01T06:26:18","slug":"463","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/01\/463\/","title":{"rendered":"Thought for the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Some years ago, in an article entitled &#8220;Wanted, a New Meat,&#8221; the Spectator complained that dietetic provision is made nowadays &#8220;not for man as humanised by schools of cookery, but for a race of fruit-eating apes.&#8221; We introduce bananas, pines, Italian figs, pomegranates, and a variety of new fruits, but what is really wanted is &#8220;some new and large animal, something which shall combine the game flavour with the substantial solidity of a leg of mutton&#8221;[1] Surmising that there must exist &#8220;some neglected quadruped, which will furnish what we seek,&#8221; the Spectator proceeded to take anxious stock of the world&#8217;s resources, subjecting in turn the rodents, the pachyderms, and the ruminants to a careful survey, in which the claims even of the wart-hog were conscientiously debated. In the end the ruminants won the day, and the choice fell upon the Eland, which was called to the high function of supplying a new flesh-food for &#8220;humanised&#8221; man.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Henry S. Salt (1851-1939) Excerpted from &#8220;The Humanities of Diet&#8221; (Manchester: The Vegetarian Society, 1914), serialised on The Grumpy Vegan and available in full at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animal-rights-library.com\/index.htm\">Animal Rights Library<\/a>. Learn more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.henrysalt.co.uk\/index_old.html\">Henry Salt<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some years ago, in an article entitled &#8220;Wanted, a New Meat,&#8221; the Spectator complained that dietetic provision is made nowadays &#8220;not for man as humanised by schools of cookery, but for a race of fruit-eating apes.&#8221; We introduce bananas, pines, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/01\/463\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thinking","tag-thought-for-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}