Addresses and Essays on Vegetarianism

<p><strong>A Plea for Vegetarianism !</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Anna Kingsford (n��e Bonus) was one of the first women to become a physician in England; mystic and poet; feminist; and ardent anti-vivisectionist and vegetarian. She was way ahead of his time in her approach to dietetics. She is indeed an interesting turn-of-the-century writer whose ideas have been greatly influential and whose books are still worth reading. Anna Bonus Kingsford believed animals should be free to live their own lives and that humanity has a responsibility to treat them compassionately and justly.</p><p>LARGE PRINT EDITION.</p><p>Excerpt: It would alas! require many long pages to cite the innumerable cruelties and sufferings which the gluttony and luxury of flesh-eating man impose on the innocent herb-feeders - sufferings which whatever may be said to the contrary are absolutely inevitable and inseparable from modern European habits of diet. Sufferings by sea and land in transit from different ports by rail and by road sufferings in the live-stock markets in the pens of the slaughter-houses while waiting their turn for death sufferings by thirst blows terror apprehension exhaustion neglect to say nothing of the wanton barbarity to which they are too often subjected such under the present hateful and unnatural system is the woeful lot of the patient gentle laborious creatures who should be ploughing our fields and yielding us not their flesh and blood but milk and wool and the fruits of their willing toil.</p><p><br></p>