IN a former number of the Food Reform Magazine I attempted to expose the fallacies involved in the seven commonest objections to Vegetarianism, which then suggested themselves to my mind. In the present supplementary paper I wish to draw attention to five other arguments of a similar kind, on which I had not time then to dwell, but which are also very frequently advanced by our adversaries. We shall then have in all a dozen fallacies, which, with apologies to the shade of Sydney Smith, I shall venture finally to collect and exhibit in what I will call “The Flesh-eater’s oration.”
More by Henry Salt
- The Old Cabbage Again!, The Vegetarian News, June 1933
- On Certain Fallacies (Part 1), The Food Reform Magazine, April 1882
- Concerning Cannibalism, The Humane Review, 1909-10
- Howard Williams’ ‘Ethics of Diet’, Vegetarian Review, October 1896
- Socialists and Vegetarians, To-day, November 1896
- Good Taste in Diet, The Food Reform Magazine, October-December 1883
- The Sanctity of Life, The Vegetarian Society, 1898
- The Philosopher and the Pig, The Vegetarian, December 5, 1896
- Vegetarianism ‘As She is Spoke’, The Vegetarian, July 6, 1889
- The Troubles of Travellers, The Dietetic Reformer and Vegetarian Messenger, September 1, 1886