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Historians have noted that "Brotherton's book served as a guide for Americans who began to self-identify as vegetarian in the early decades of the nineteenth century." [ 5 ] Kathryn Gleadle has written that the book "was enormously important to the movement, forming the basis of most subsequent works on vegetable cookery."
[5] [24] 15 years after its publication, The Vegetarian Magazine says, "needless to say the theories and proofs for fruit instead of brute are incontestable," adding that "this is a book which none should fail to read who are looking for reasons for adopting the best diet." The review concludes saying that it is "an interesting and instructive ...
In 1682 his inner voice told him to engage in writing and to publish books in order to propagate temperance and nonviolence. [8] In the last two decades of his life, he published twenty-seven works on a wide range of subjects, including education, nutrition, abstinence from alcohol and tobacco and other health issues, and treatment of slaves. [ 9 ]
James Simpson JP (9 July 1812 – 2 September 1859) was a Bible Christian deacon and activist for a number of causes. He was active in the vegetarianism, temperance, anti-tobacco, anti-Corn Law and peace movements. Simpson co-founded and served as the first President of the Vegetarian Society.
The essay was reprinted in 1884 in a new edition in London by F. Pitman and by John Heywood and the Vegetarian Society in Manchester. The original title page was reproduced: A Vindication of Natural Diet. Being One in a Series of Notes to Queen Mab (A Philosophical Poem). London: Printed for J. Callow by Smith & Davy, 1813.
Anna Thomas wrote her first cookbook The Vegetarian Epicure (1972) while still a film student at UCLA. It had a strong impact on the natural foods movement within the American counterculture . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] As noted in The Roanoke Times , "for many of the young people turning to vegetarianism in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Anna Thomas was the ...
James E. "Jimmy" Wilson (born 1903), [1] was an American farmhand who was convicted of violent robbery by an Alabama court in 1958 and sentenced to death. [2] His case became a cause célèbre due to the small amount stolen ($1.95) and that Wilson, as an African-American, was convicted by an all-white jury .
Diet for a Small Planet is a 1971 book by Frances Moore Lappé.It was a bestseller in the West, and argues for the potential role of soy as a superior form of protein. It demonstrates the environmental impact of meat production and a contributor to global food scarcity. [1]