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The Logic of Vegetarianism

Henry S. Salt

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. . .sertions; it is sufficient to refer to the people of India, China, and Japan, the Egyptian fellah, the Bedouin Arab, the peasantry of Russia and Turkey, the labourers and miners of Chili and other South American States; and, to come nearer home, the great bulk of the country folk in Western Europe and Great Britain. The peasant, here and all the world over, has been, and still is, in the main a vegetarian, and must for the most part continue so; and the fact that this diet has been the result, not of choice, but of necessity, does not lessen the significance of its perfect sufficiency to maintain those who do the hard work of the world. Side by side with the tendency of the wealthier classes to indulge more and more in flesh food has been the undisputed admission that for the workers such luxuries were unneeded.

During the last half-century, however, as we all know, the unhealthy and crowded civilisation of great industrial centres has produced a. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Buena obra. Expone con claridad los argumentos básicos del vegetarianismo clásico. Muy recomendable.

Con un formato agradable a la lectura y argumentos claros, esta obra de Salt es genial para conocer los fundamentos éticos del vegetarianismo.

De argumenten (voor zowel als tegen) zijn in 100 jaar niet veranderd.

This book is more than a hundred years old, but the logic poured into it, is still valid and relevant... at least for the most part.

The book makes very good arguments backing up vegetarianism as the right moral choice focusing on the animal rights movement, which back then, must have been a lot less

This book was originally published in 1899 so it’s 110 years old this year. Even so it presents arguments for vegetarianism that seem quite relevant today. One can even hear echos from it in arguments made by modern day animal rights activists such as Earthling Ed, and James Aspay.

The difference is

This book was mentioned in Gandhi Before India which I had read a few days back and really wanted to go through Salt’s book to understand the logic for vegetarianism first hand. The book seems to have influenced Gandhi’s dietary habits and was quoted very often by him. In fact Gandhi not only follow