Saturday 29 January 2011

Quotation: Herbert Owen (1942)

"As to the example and teaching of Jesus we do at least know that He taught justice and the merciful treatment of others. How can we deny that the suffering and fear which we see in the eyes of an animal spring from the same causes as in human beings, or that it is a moral duty to avoid inflicting such pain and terror so far as in us lies?"

From a letter published in The Vegetarian Messenger and Health Review (July 1942)

Sunday 23 January 2011




Correspondence between Henry Salt and Professor Mayor from The Vegetarian Messenger (September and October 1897 editions).

See also: 'Henry Salt on the Bible and Vegetarianism' and 'Bible and Beef' by Henry S. Salt and 'A Foolish Fancy'

Monday 17 January 2011

The Rev. Prof. John E.B. Mayor (1825-1910)


President of both St. John's College, Cambridge and the Vegetarian Society (from 1894 until the year of his death, in the case of the latter).

In 1897, the V.S. published the 'Vegetarian Jubilee Library' in commemoration of their first fifty years which included a compilation of Mayor essays, entitled Plain Living and High Thinking.

(Portrait taken from The Vegetarian Messenger and Health Review, January 1911)

See: Letter and Quotation

Tuesday 11 January 2011

Profile: The Rev Prof Johannes Ude (1874-1965)


From the Catholic Herald dated October 2, 1959

See also: Article