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A Vindication of Natural Diet.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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A Vindication of Natural Diet is an 1813 essay by Percy Bysshe Shelley on vegetarianism and animal rights.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Never did sage or singer, prophet or priest, or poet, see a brighter vision of the future than that which is imaged in the description of a glorified earth, from which cruelty, bloodshed, and tyranny, have been banished.

"My brethren, we are free! The fruits are glowing Beneath the stars, and the night-winds are flowing O'er the ripe corn. The birds and beasts are dreaming. Never again may blood of bird or beast Stain with its venomous stream a human feast, [Pg 6]To the pure skies in accusation steaming; Avenging poisons shall have ceased To feed disease and fear and madness; The dwellers of the earth and air Shall throng around our steps in gladness, Seeking their food or refuge there. Our toil from thought all glorious forms shall cull, To make this earth, our home, more beautiful; And Science, and her sister Poesy, Shall clothe in light the fields and cities of the free!" *         *         *  &nb. . . Read More

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The allegory of Adam and Eve eating of the tree of evil, and entailing upon their posterity the wrath of God, and the loss of everlasting life, admits of no other explanation than the disease and crime that have flowed from unnatural diet.

As with every other piece of PBS's writing that I attempt

"Never take any substance into the stomach that once had life."

As an argument for vegetarianism, Vindication become stronger as it goes on. Shelley begins with his weakest argument, suggesting one's diet influences their morality. At worst, he borders on criminological pseudoscience (his Napoleon ta

Published as a separate pamphlet in 1813 when Shelley was 21 years of age, this tract originated among the extensive notes to his epic poem Queen Mab. Like a lot of his extended works in poetry, such as Prometheus Unbound and The Revolt of Islam, Mab and the pamphlet to which it gave rise carry the

A VEGETARIAN KING!

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Long before vegetarianism became popular and intensive livestock farming was a topic,
P.B. Shelley (one of my favourite English poets) contemplated on why eating meat is unnatural for humans and which negative implications it has on health.
Further he critically addresses the concept of spending more

The purpose of this written piece by Shelly was to inform the reader of the benefits of a vegetable based diet and the need, the most dire need to show compassion to other sentience. He details with articulate prowess the need to call and end to the hostilities of consuming the flesh of those which

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