Late-Victorian propaganda

A century before PETA unveiled their controversial 'Jesus was a Vegetarian' billboard campaign the London Vegetarian Society featured these two illustrations in the Christmas 1898 edition of their journal, The Vegetarian.

'Is the Vegetarian right?' by the Rev. Professor C.J. Cadoux

From The Vegetarian Messenger and Health Review, May 1942

See: Obituary

'Contrasts'

From The Vegetarian, 15 December, 1900 edition

Quotation: The Rev. R. J. Porteous (1903)

" We cannot be spiritual beings and beasts of prey at the same time."

From The Herald of the Golden Age, March 1903 edition

'Bible and Beef' by Henry S. Salt

An article on the theological implications of vegetarianism by the acknowledged father of animal rights theory. From a series of essays which were published in The Vegetarian during 1899 and collected as The Logic of Vegetarianism in the same year.

See also: 'Henry Salt on the Bible and Vegetarianism' and 'The Vegetarian Society and the Bible'

Bibliography: 'A Guiltless Feast' by Derek Antrobus

'The Death of General Booth'

An appraisal of the life of Salvation Army founder William Booth which appeared in The Vegetarian, September 1912 edition

See also: 'Food reformers and the Salvation Army' and 'Vegetarianism by Bramwell Booth' (1900)