'Christianity and Flesh-Eating' by Rev Francis Wood (1854-1934)

About the author

'Food Reform in relation to Longevity'

The author of this influential article (and president of the Order of the Golden Age) was a highly successful stockbroker who devoted most of his life to promoting vegetarianism from a largely spiritual standpoint.

A subsequent editorial response to Beard's essay appears below and the commemorative O.G.A. website has recently been updated.

See also: 'Food reformers and the Salvation Army'

'The Easter Lamb'

From The Vegetarian dated May 5, 1900

Henry Salt on the Bible and Vegetarianism

An interesting assessment of moral theology within the Food Reform movement which obliquely refers to the Rev. Gideon J. Ouseley (author of The Gospel of the Holy Twelve).

From the memoir Company I Have Kept, Allen & Unwin, 1930

See also: 'Bible and Beef' by Henry S. Salt and 'The Vegetarian Society and the Bible'

'Friends and Vegetarianism' (1944)

The Friends' Vegetarian Society is the oldest surviving Christian fellowship of its kind, having been founded in 1902. The society has published at least eight tracts in the course of its history and their newsletter has recently been revived - contact the F.V.S. c/o Bal Saini for subscription details at 176 Stoney Lane, Sparkhill, Birmingham B12 8AN.

The above text is the original source of a FVS leaflet which is reproduced with the kind permission of the Friend magazine.

See also: 'Vegetarian Society overture to Quakers' (1880)

Vegetarianism: A Radical Principle in Animal Welfare by the Rev. Professor Johannes Ude

From The Vegetarian News, October 1929

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