Henry Stephens Salt (September 20, 1851 - April 19, 1939) on Animal Rights and Diet(published by RevoltSource) |
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English Writer, Vegetarian, Anti-war Advocate, Socialist, Anti-child Abuse, and Campaigner for Social Reform in the Fields of Prisons, Schools, Economic Institutions, and the Treatment of Animals
: An English writer and campaigner for social reform in the fields of prisons, schools, economic institutions, and the treatment of animals. He was a noted ethical vegetarian, anti-vivisectionist, socialist, and pacifist, and was well known as a literary critic, biographer, classical scholar and naturalist. It was Salt who first introduced Mohandas Gandhi to the influential works of Henry David Thoreau, and influenced Gandhi's study of vegetarianism. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
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“Vegetarian: But what of the meat—the thing cooked? What is it? What was it? And how did it come to be on your plate?
Æsthete: I never think of such questions. So long as it is nice, I am content. It must satisfy my taste, that is all.
Vegetarian: But are you sure that it does satisfy your taste in the same way that other things do? I think not, for you have never put it to the trial. In no other branch of art do you take things wholly on trust, but you try them by the standard of an independent and educated intelligence. In diet, and in diet only, you "shut your eyes and open your mouth," as the children say, and never distinguish between a real innate liking and the liking that is merely traditional.”
Source: "The Logic of Vegetarianism: Essays and Dialogues," by Henry Stephens Salt, Second Edition, Revised, London, George Bell and Sons, York House, Portugal Street, 1906. Chapter 11: The Esthetic Argument, Page 53.
"The Logic of Vegetarianism: Essays and Dialogues," by Henry Stephens Salt, Second Edition, Revised, London, George Bell and Sons, York House, Portugal Street, 1906.
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