Henry Stephens Salt (September 20, 1851 - April 19, 1939) on Animal Rights and Human Oppression(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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“...the wretched creatures that are bred and fed for the shambles have none of the true joys of life, but from the first are mere animated beef, pork, and mutton, while their death is nothing better than a prolonged and clumsy massacre.”
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 8: Palliations and Sophistries, Page 37.
"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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