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
- Good Taste in Diet, The Food Reform Magazine, October-December 1883
- A Metaphysic of the Larder, The Vegetarian Messenger and Health Review, April 1923
- Socialists and Vegetarians, To-day, November 1896
- Concerning Cannibalism, The Humane Review, 1909-10
- Vegetarianism and Social Reform, The Dietetic Reformer and Vegetarian Messenger, April 1, 1885
- Are We Civilised?, The Vegetarian News, March 1932
- More Cabbage-Talk, The Vegetarian Messenger and Health Review, February 1926
- A Friendly Duel: Raymond Blathwayt chats to Henry S. Salt, The Vegetarian, May 21, 1898
- The Promotion of Kindness to Non-Existent Animals, The Vegetarian News, December 1928
- Biblical Vegetarianism, The Reformer, October 15, 1897