{"id":464,"date":"2007-12-02T02:27:48","date_gmt":"2007-12-02T06:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=464"},"modified":"2007-12-02T02:27:48","modified_gmt":"2007-12-02T06:27:48","slug":"464","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/02\/464\/","title":{"rendered":"Thought for the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>This is not the sense in which I am about to speak of the &#8220;humanities&#8221; of diet. I have not been fired by the Spectator&#8217;s enthusiasm for the rescue of some &#8220;neglected quadruped,&#8221; nor have I any wish to see eviscerated Elands hanging a-row in our butchers&#8217; shops. On the contrary, I suggest that in proportion as man is truly &#8220;humanised,&#8221; not by schools of cookery but by schools of thought, he will abandon the barbarous habit of his flesh-eating ancestors, and will make gradual progress towards a purer, simpler, more humane, and therefore more civilised diet-system.<\/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>This is not the sense in which I am about to speak of the &#8220;humanities&#8221; of diet. I have not been fired by the Spectator&#8217;s enthusiasm for the rescue of some &#8220;neglected quadruped,&#8221; nor have I any wish to see &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/02\/464\/\">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-464","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\/464","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=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}