Flesh or Fruit? An Essay on Food Reform

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Discusses the literature of vegetarianism, including that by Seneca, Plutarch, Porphyry, Wesley, Montaigne, Sylvester Graham, Anna Kingsford. The vegetarian diet is advantageous in that it is necessary in order to be consistently humane, is aesthetically in good taste, is healthful, is economic. Criticises objectors to vegetarianism who use the argument form physiology (humans' canine teeth), who claim vegetarianism violates the laws of nature (predator and prey), who say some people who have tried vegetarianism have failed to stick with it, who ask what will we do for leather, soap, candles, who claim that eating animals is in the animals' interests.

Reprinted from the Westminster Review