“As man is truly “humanised”, not by schools of cookery but by schools of thought, he will abandon the barbarous habit of his flesh-eating ancestors, and will make gradual progress towards a purer, simpler, more humane, and therefore more civilised diet-system.”

—  Henry Stephens Salt

The Humanities of Diet

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British activist 1851–1939

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