A Plea for Vegetarianism and Other Essays

Henry S. Salt

• Publisher: Vegetarian Society, Manchester
• Published: 1886
• Length: 114 pages
• Format: Hardback

Summary

Nine essays giving insight into reactions to vegetarians, with suggestions how vegetarians should respond. The book had a profound influence on Mahatma Gandhi who found it in a vegetarian restaurant in London.

Two of the Essays, viz., “A Plea for Vegetarianism” and “Sir Henry Thompson and the ‘Vegetarians’” are reprinted from Time for February, 1883, and January, 1886. The remaining essays appeared at different times in the pages of the Food Reform Magazine, the Dietetic Reformer, and the Vegetarian Society’s Annual.

Content

• A Plea For Vegetarianism
• Morality In Diet
• Good Taste In Diet
• Some Results Of Food Reform
• Medical Men And Food Reform
• Sir Henry Thompson On “Diet”
• On Certain Fallacies
• Sport
• The Philosophy Of Cannibalism
• Vegetarianism And Social Reform