“The future is with the vegetarians.”

— Rudolf Virchow

Quoted in Consuming Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century: Narratives of Consumption, 1700-1900, edited by Tamara S. Wagner and Narin Hassan (Lexington Books, 2007), p. 19 https://books.google.it/books?id=NAEZBjQwXBYC&pg=PA19.

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German doctor, anthropologist, public health activist, path… 1821–1902

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