T H E VEGAN SOCIETY

Founded November, 1944

President: Mrs. ELSIE B. SHRIGLEY, , Purley, Surrey.

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JOURNAL OF THE VEGAN SOCIETY
Editor: Mr. JOHN HERON, , Betchworth, Surrey.
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BRANCHES O F T H E SOCIETY A N D SECRETARIES

LONDON.Miss Mavis Lardge, , London, N.6.

YORKSHIRE.Miss Stella Rex, , Garforth,

Nr. Leeds.
M I D L A N D S Mr. Don Burton, , Stratford-on-Avon,
Warwicks.
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SCOTTISH SECTION Miss Dina M. Sutherland, ,

Liberton, Edinburgh, 9.

(Please communicate with your nearest Branch Secretary)

THE VEGAN
Journal of the Vegan Society

Vol. IX Winter, 1955 No. 7

EDITORIAL
The consumption of cows' milk by man is one of the great
illusions that beset humanity : it has assumed even to the lacto-
vegetarian that inevitability which characterises the attitude of the
majority of westerners to the consumption of animal flesh. To
break down this illusion is one of the objects of the Vegan
Society. We do not seek to convert, that is forcibly to alter the
dietary habits of others ; but we do seek to get others to investigate
impartially, and thence to admit the injustice and the moral
inadequacy of the monstrous dependence of civilized, mature man
on the bovine race.
Veganism stands for more than this, however. It Stands for a
doctrine of monism, pointing to the all-pervading unity that
manifests in and through all forms of life. The recognition of
this unity calls for responsibility and love. In these terms we
develop to something higher, and in so developing draw upwards
on the scale of evolution those whom we have hitherto beaten and
trodden underfoot, drawing off their strength, their vitality into that
" innocent pint of milk ".
Do we speak in too strong terms? Only to those who are still
trapped within the nets of that comfortable illusion. Yet it is a
trap and it is a net. Let us do away with it once and for all and
admit that the dietary practices of civilised man have gone sadly
astray. Both responsibility and maturity beckon. Courage asks
that decisive steps are taken. We need, all of us, in the simplest,
most basic act of daily livingthe eating of foodto acknowledge,
to be true to, our kinship with all life.
And what better time of year, when tables groan with festive
fare, to conduct a little painstaking analysis into the origins of
those animal substances that so many take for granted. Respon-
sibility begins very much at home.
JOHN HERON.

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 AUSTRALIAN WELCOME
Australian Newsletter from our Australian Correspondent
A. L.E. Clark
After five weeks of weather varying from snow to temperatures
over 90, the S.S. Strathmore docked at Melbourne late Good
Friday evening. The following morning I was called to the
telephone (now connected from ship to shore) for our first contact
with Australian vegans, Arnold and Freda Robert. Warm
greetings of welcome were followed by an invitation to spend the
Easter with them.
Promptly at 8 o'clock that evening we were conveyed from the
docks in the Robert's car. The journey took us through the heart
of Melbourne, and various places of interest were pointed out to
us until at last we struck open country.
I think it must have been 1 o'clock Sunday morning before we
retiredthe evening seemed to pass away all too quickly, engaged
as we were in lively conversation. We learnt that vegetarians and
vegans are few in number in the Commonwealth, but at the same
time are consolidated in small vegetarian societies in each state, in
addition to an Australian Vegetarian Society with head office at
Sydney.
Catering is mainly carried out by the Sanitarium Health Co.
(organised by the Seventh Day Adventists). Sad to say, the nut
butters and creams so readily available in the U.K. are non-
existent here. Peanut butter and Cophaa coconut fat suitable
for cookingare obtainable. There are one or two brands of
margarine that might be vegan and I hope to contact the firms for
guarantees.
To offset this, fruit is very plentiful and, whilst dear at present
with winter prices, is of a wide range and cheaper in the summer.
Vegetables are reasonably priced and all the varieties usually
grown in England are to be had with a few other Australian
vegetables besides, i.e., sweet potatoes, chokoes, apple cucumbers.
Arnold and Freda explained that they buy almond nuts in
quantity at an approximate cost of 54 for a year's supply and,
with an electric vitamizer, produce a nut cream. They were,
however, envious of the consistency of the English cream. (We
had presented them with some cashew nut cream.) Certain nut
meats are advertised by the Sanitarium Co. and bear names
similar to English counterparts, i.e., Nutolene, Gluten Steaks, etc.
It is unfortunate that manufacturers are not required by law to
disclose the ingredients of products.
The following day we had the opportunity to see the garden
and have a close look at the house. Simplicity, with artistry, have
gone to make a home comfortable in a modern style pleasing to
the eye. Built in a rectangular fashion and single storied, most
rooms have glass windows stretching from just above the floor to
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near the ceiJing and running the whole length of the room. Glass
doors on outside walls allow the sunlight to penetrate into the
interior from every possible angle. On a moonlight night it is
possible to sit in the lounge and survey the countryside, giving the
impression that you are actually sitting out in the garden. It is no
exaggeration to say that the windows are as large as shop type.
Freda and Arnold are enthusiastic naturalists and the time and
trouble they have put into realizing ideals has had its reward in
good health and contentment. Anthony, the Robert's 3-year-old
son, is a suntanned sturdy youngster with an intelligence, I should
rate, well above average. Raw food, mainly fruit, forms the basis
for the Robert diet even to the extent of having very little bread.
It goes without saying they are keen food reformists.
Most of the furniture has been specially designed by Mr. S.
Krimper, a professor of woodcraft, originally from Austria. Con-
temporary in style, simplicity here once again shows beauty and
craftmanship. The Professor has works of art in the National
Galleries of Melbourne and Brisbane. Wood used for the furniture
is of the finest Commonwealth hardwoods and has been blended
with imported woods to give a combination of shade, colour and
graining. All the Krimper works of art, as they might better be
described, are original in design, as may be expected. A polished
finish has been obtained by continuous rubbing down with very
fine sandpaper until an effect much like the gloss of ivory has been
produced.
The garden has come similarly under the guidance of another
expert, a Miss Edna Walling, who has combined a fruit, vegetable
and flower garden to blend suitably into the surrounding land-
scape. A rather interesting feature is the extensive use of mulch
covering the ground around vegetable and flower beds to a depth
of 12 inches. Besides acting as humus for the soil, the mulch
keeps the weeds down and makes digging and watering practically
nil, and gardening a lot easier! Rainwater is collected in a tank
and used for drinking and cooking purposes in the house, as the
Roberts believe in avoiding the chemicals that are used in the
main supply. Orange, lemon and other fruit and almond trees
add a finishing touch to the garden.
Later on in the morning we were taken for a drive in the
surrounding countryside, known as the Dandenong Ranges. In
some ways the rolling downs and woods reminded us of Kentish
scenery. Perfect weather prevailed with temperatures between
70 and 80, making the trip the more enjoyable. The rest of
Sunday was spent in discussing a hundred and one subjects ranging
from theosophy (Arnold and Freda are members of the Society)
to the preparing of compost heaps.
Another drive around the Dandenong hills Monday morning
and then, alas, came our time to depart. On the way back to the
ship we talked of the possibility of the Roberts removing to
Queensland, a little further north than Brisbane (our destination).
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Arnold is very keen on the idea of a fruit farm. In next to no
time we were thanking our new friends for a lovely week-end and
waving farewell from the boat.
And so we sailed on from Melbourne to Sydney, leaving behind
" Tranquil Meadows" tucked away in the hills surrounding
Melbourne; a haven of peace and contentment, a home of
culture and beauty, a spiritual light burning in that vast
continent, Australia.
The Roberts, by their example, are showing a new way of life
to a meat-loving community, and we can feel happy in the know-
ledge that the torch is being carried in capable hands.
Best wishes, Arnold, Freda and Tony, and thank you for such
a hospitable welcome to Australia!

THE GOOD LIFE

" Amicus "
Living the Good Life, Helen and Scott Nearing. The C. W. Daniel Co.
Ltd., 21 /-.
Man's Search for the Good Life, Scott Nearing. The C. W. Daniel Co.
Ltd., 15/-.
(The C. W. Daniel Co. Ltd., Ashingdon, Rochford, Essex.)
" Living the Good Life," by Helen and Scott Nearing, is
undoubtedly a modern classic on husbandry. It is a clear,
vigorous, masculine account of their 20 years' experiment in self-
subsistence on a Vermont homestead. For economic, hygienic,
social and ethical reasons the Nearings left the disturbances of
city life in the autumn of 1932 and started a pioneering venture
whose main purpose was to carry on a self-subsistence economy
and to provide an oasis of sound, healthful, basically sane living in
a teetery world. This experiment was from the start distinguished
by mature intelligence, diligence, careful planning and sustained
executive capacitywedded to an extraordinary instinct for the
noble simplicity of the craft of country living. " Living the Good
L i f e " describes from the technical, economic, sociological and
psychological aspects what the Nearings tried to do, how they did
it, and the degree of their success.
This is a very remarkable book. Perhaps its primary moral is
that fundamental happiness derives from a thorough application
to the constructive solution of life's immediate problems. The
Nearings certainly applied themselves with great, but by no means
slavish, thoroughness to their rural economy : the satisfaction they
reaped must have been commensurately great. Chapters deal with
the economic organization and development of their farm (includ-
ing " sugaring"), the building of stone dwellings by hand, the
cultivation of the soil, health-giving food, community projects, and
so on. The whole is, in fact, a comprehensive theoretical and
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thoroughly practical handbook for any couple between the ages of
20 and 50 who wish to break out of the competitive, acquisitive
urban civilization of the day and pioneer with self-subsistence in
the rural life.
Self-discipline, the capacity to make a plan and stick to it,
would seem to be prime requisites in this type of undertaking.
But the wise provision and maturity of the Nearing's approach
was that they apportioned only half the day to bread-labour,
keeping the other half free for the pursuit of varied avocations
and for relaxation. Vegetarianism and later veganism were
integral to their practice of the good life; similarly organic
gardening; and, of course, whole food and considerable raw food.
And their presentation of these elements is reinforced by a pro-
fusion of references and quotations which are in themselves a
source of rich delight and inspiration.
The project was an emphatic success " as a venture in
economic self-containment and an experiment in economy,
frugality, self-discipline and day to day training for a new way of
life," and " in terms of individual health and happiness." How-
ever, they consider that socially and sociologically it left much to
be desired. There were never more than four or five adults in the
householdinsufficient for a fully labour-saving economy; and
co-operation and mutual aid among neighbouring farms and
families was not attained on any significant scale. While full-
scale co-operative enterprises undoubtedly belong to the future,
this account of the unusually good life to which the Nearings them-
selves attained for two decades is impressive, instructive and
extremely encouraging. For those who would pioneer in a similar
fashion, the authors of " Living the Good Life " have bequeathed
a very valuable legacy.
* * * *

In " Man's Search for the Good Life " Scott Nearing presents
a broad analysis of the historical, social, political and economic
factors relating to the basic issues of the good life. After practising
it for 20 years he is entitled to a dissertation on its theoretical
implicationsand he is well-equipped to do so. From 1906-1914
he was an instructor in economics at Philadelphia University. A
powerfully active social conscience made him prominent in several
controversial issues ; and as an author of over 40 books, he is well
versed in the philosophy and history of economic and social life.
Briefly speaking, his thesis is as follows. Western civilization
is dying: it is dying because it is predatory, acquisitive, competi-
tive, expansive, militaristic, egocentric and hence self-consuming
and self-destroying. Therefore " we must separate ourselves
psychologically from the old and dedicate ourselves enthusiastically
to the new." The good life to-day is, then, the devoted and
courageous pilgrimage of the pioneer towards the new land; and
it involves a synthesis, a harmonization, of individual and collective
aims. Thus group pioneering is symptomatic of the emergence of
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the new social order. Meanwhile social engineers must formulate,
popularize and implement purposes and plans that are in accord
with a true balance of personal and public wants.
Scott Nearing strikes an optimistic note. He believes that men
seek the good life, will continue to seek it, that some men do and
all men can potentially live the good life. He asserts that it is
primarily social limitations by which we are hemmed in and that
these can be modified by " an individual or a community with the
wish and the will to do so." His call is undoubtedly to the pioneer.
And his style and exhortation is in the great and vigorous tradition
of that inner emancipated core of American liberality.

ANNOUNCEMENT
Books by Professor Arnold Ehret
In the Spring, 1952, issue of " The Vegan," the Editor drew
attention to the life and work of that great pioneer Professor
Arnold Ehret, and stated that his books could be obtained from
J. Regan, N.D., D.O., " Onaway," Downend Park, Horfield,
Bristol 7. Many vegans wrote to Mr. Regan for Ehret's books,
but he was not able to meet all their requirements. Mr. Regan
now writes to say that he has received a limited supply of Ehret's
books from the U.S.A., particularly " The Mucusless Diet Healing
System." This is an important opportunity for vegans to enrich
their libraries with classics by one of the fathers of the naturo-
pathic movement, and by one who advocated a vegan diet. Please
write to Mr. Regan direct for full details.

CHILD AND BABY BUREAU

Dear Children,
I have been asked to write especially to you this time as it
would be very interesting for the Vegan Committee and others,
who are endeavouring to lead the vegan way of life, to hear from
some of you. Of course, we would really like to hear from all the
children, but I expect there are many who are too small to write;
as I don't receive letters very often from mummies and daddies, I
expect they are too busy looking after you.
I wonder whether any of you keep pets? Even if you have
managed to bring them up as vegetarians, you will have begun a
very good piece of pioneer work for the creatures, and we would
very much like to hear about it. Or if you have any other news
that you know we would like to have, do please write.
May love and blessings in abundance surround each one of
you. SERENA COLES.

Purley, Surrey.
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 RETREAT OF THE VEGETARIANS
George Merrill Hawkins, M.D.
Human, somatic, evolution was completed centuries a g o ;
normalized chemically and formally. Human psychical evolution
is a fluid process that proceeds, unequally, throughout the race,
into the future. The true vegetarian is representative of that
element in society that has arrived at the recognition of Life
Obligation, the concept that all those endowed with life in human
degree are under obligation to serve and conserve life in all degrees
on the planet Earth. That is the logic to which monism reaches,
the understanding that Earth and all its elements form a unity,
are all parts of an organism.
The essence of life is metabolism ; metabolism is the life of the
body. That fact is now getting recognition in wider and wider
circles. It means the partaking of and the appropriation of
food and the elimination of residues of oxidation. It is now
beginning to be understood that food is the most important
element in life and the fundamental factor on the expression of
life and the fundamental factor in the expression of the various
tissues of the body registered as health. The three stages of the
living process, infancy, maturity and senility, mark the degrees of
the food needs and capacities of appropriation, that the body
passes through. These capacities are determined by the supply of
the " ferment of ferments ", the adreno-oxidative secretion, that the
body can produce and varies as time passes. This secretion is of
the utmost importance to the life, growth and health of the post
partum infant.
In the first or embryonic stage of life this essence of life is
supplied to the bodily cells of the embryo direct from the maternal
blood, being transfused from the mother's blood vessels into the
tissues of the embryo through the placenta. When birth occurs,
the discontinuance of placental attachment occurs, but the demand
for the " ferment of ferments " by the infant does not cease for the
reason that the infantile glandular system has not developed far
enough to supply the infantile body an amount adequate to its
needs. Nature again comes to the support of new life, furnishing
the essential substance in the secretion of the mammary glands,
milk. Milk being the exudation from maternal blood partakes of
the qualities of that blood : it is basically blood serum. The milk-
supplying function completes the process of sex, a fulfilment
capable only by a maternal being.
The first quality of it is its adaptation to the offspring that were
first nourished by that blood through the placenta of any given
mother. Woman's milk is adapted to human babies : cow's milk
is adapted to bovine babies; mare's milk is adapted to equine
babies; goat's milk is adapted to hircin babies; sow's milk is
adapted to porcine babies, and so on throughout mammalian
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families. Milk, therefore, is the provision of Nature for the
sustenance and welfare of infantile life.
Maternal blood is qualified by the substances from which it
derives support and renewal, originating in the digestive tract and
inspired by the respiratory tract, and by emotional responses to
environment. It in turn transmits those qualities to the milk. As
the health of the mother is also qualified by those conditions, milk
must take on the degree of health of the milk-giver.
An investigator of infant nutrition, in the present age, will be
convinced that breast feeding of human infants is in a decline. The
main drive of education for women, the principal life objective of
women themselves in this day, is cerebral culture. Civilized,
industrialized, urbanized, guanidized, alcoholized, nicotinized,
caffienated, salicylated, barbiturated, masculinized, neurasthenic,
denatured woman, depleted in glandular power is losing breast
function. This pathological astringency is choking the stream of
life at its source, for genus homo sapiens. The function underlying
woman's racial role is glandular. School rooms, offices, airplanes,
legislatures, the arts, the military, the sick, utilize feminine,
cerebral activities; motherhood demands metabolic power,
glandular vigour. This is confusion of biologic order determined by
gender. The former directing feminine, cosmic energies, in reverse,
is a product of the schools and desire for extravagant living; the
latter is the product of green meadows and sweet hay raked by
Maud Mullers. Industrialism, established for less than a hundred
yearsits culture.
The increasing nutritional misfortune, if no other, into which
civilized infants are born is being met in a stopgap manner, as the
situation emerges, by the use of the milks of lower animals. The
cow is being more steadily drafted to foster-mother human young.
Milk designed by nature to nourish bovine young, of quick
growth, large bones, bulky muscles and witless brains, must be
used to sustain human young of slow growth, small bones, small
muscles, and dominant brains. Logical thinking would say that
such fothering procedure is not laden with good fortune for
numanity. This conclusion is borne out by the colicky wails and
sour pukings throughout civilization, beginning links in subsequent
chain reactions.
In steaming tropical jungles, native women with full functioning
breasts, of guileless rondure, nurse their babies for two years
sequestered in paternal domicile, for that period unexcited by
husband contiguity. Exemplars they of normal motherhood ; a
primitive, oriented ethic; instinctive, biologic service; sex for
reproduction; motherhood supreme.
It is not controversial to say that milk is a good foodfor the
calf. The calf thinks so, too, when it is getting its nourishment warm
from the maternal teats, in small jets, easily digested. But this
contentment is only for a short period of time in its life. A few
weeks from its birth it feels the need of and demands different
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food, discontinuing the taking of milk while it is yet immature.
Not so the human. He not only is urged to but does use milk
freely in his maturity. It is amazing that human adults do not
know as much as the calf, concerning the ordination of Nature.
Is it possible that instinct is more clarified, is a more direct channel
for World Mind, than reason? Human adults of the strongest
metabolic powers and slow reactions apparently appropriate milk
and milk products in their regimen without acute and prominent
repercussions; but the sensitive person, with quicker responses,
experiences prompt and unhappy reactions to the consumption of
milk and milk products.
The age of senility is the age of decline in the supplies of
ferments, enzymes, the essences of metabolism, the fires of life. The
ageing man feels an encroaching weakness and turns to milk as a
supportive food. But a food that is supportive of one life species
in infancy, when vitality is on the upsurge, has little affinity for
another life species that is losing power. In that stage stimulation
hastens complete exhaustion and the taking in of outside agents
to substitute for secretions the body has been supplying itself but
no longer does so, hastens the final failure of the only supports of
life. Longevity is curtailed.
Milk is, basically, the exuded serum of the blood, cow's milk
being the exudation of cow's blood. Modern dairy practices
stimulate cows to exude every drop of milk possible over a period
of time greatly prolonged beyond normal, natural, lactation
periods. This is done by stimulative feeding and intensive
breeding. These measures result in bovine abnormality. Cows
become temporarily sterile; they are treated for that. If they
become pregnant many of them abort; Bang's Disease ; they are
treated for that. Foot and mouth disease has its seasons, tuber-
culosis has its seasons, lumpy jaw makes its appearance ; the highly
stimulated, intensely bred cows develop mastitis, they become
rheumatic, their constitutions are wrecked by the overstimulated
milk flow that drains their blood and tissues of essential elements.
The symptoms of disease and abnormality are preceded by
changes in the animal's blood long before the symptoms appear,
and the disease and the treatments by inoculation profoundly
modify and deplete the animal's blood. The insecticides developed
by scientists and now in use in cattle barns, are absorbed into the
bodies of cows and are eliminated in the cow's milk. Now the
somewhat new and ingenious tampering with the delicate polarity
of reproduction, artificial insemination, will also add its influence
to the denaturing of cows.
The consumption of cow's milk by humanity is a slow method
of slaughter, a pitiless exploitation of the intention of Natural
Law, by which a maternal creature, because she was born a
female, must give her body to sustain her infant. It is also a
method of swift slaughter, supplying every veal market and rennet
shop in the land.
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 In Central Africa there are people who exploit cattle for blood.
They are boldly sanguineous, unashamed, forthright direct
actionists : they open the veins of their cattle and drink the blood
as it gushes forth. White exploiters of cattle for blood, with less
intestinal fortitude, are somewhat squeamish at such practice;
they choose the indirect approach preferring to drain their cows
through their udders. Evolutional, human cunning, marking the
back track that was taken when man made the pivotal turn away
from the practice of a great and pure humanity; away from the
period of compassion for and symbiosis with his zoologic
sojourners, freedom from fear throughout all forms, extending for
thousands of years and to which the exalted Christian, Thomas-i-
Kempis, in vain, calls mankind to a recollectedness : " If thy heart
were sincere and upright then every creature would be unto thee
a living mirror and a book of holy doctrine," Monism, unity,
applied, not just talked about; and increasingly unheeded in the
exploiting of docility ; the exploiting of maternity; the exploiting
of gastronomic capacity multiplied quadripartite.
The rural family, prompted by thrift, keeps a cow for family
milk supply. The children feed her delicacies; they stroke her
neck ; they " drive her home from the pasture, up through the long,
shady lane " ; they drink her milk; she is the family pet, their best
friend, giving her living substance to her friends. What greater
test of friendship? One day it is found that time has taken its
toll of bossy ; she is not as serviceable as she was, her milk supply
has fallen off. In that hapless hour " O l d S p o t " meets her
denouement, she experiences her betrayal. The butcher is called ;
she is carted off to the slaughter house, hit in the head with a pole-
axe, flayed and dismembered. Is her flesh eaten by her good
friends, her former beneficiaries? She may be saved that final
indignity ; strangers may consume her carcass.
Life Obligation has been realized by those leading the intuitive
life, through the centuries, but their teachings and examples have
become more obfuscated as the race has aged ; senility depleting
alertness. The criteria of this fact being the importance given to
the obligation to life : " Thou shalt not kill " ; that has been issued
from time to time in succeeding historical periods by the clair-
voyant clansmen of God and the votaries of evolutional probity.
When Moses carried down from Sinai the tablets of clay it occu-
pied sixth place ; by the time Saul of Tarsus sustained his stroke of
rationality, which fired his ambition to carry on a mission of hate,
persecution, extermination and assassination, dedicating his heart
to a Devil's promenade, to promoting the evangel of pity, com-
passion, love and mutual aid, man's lethal tendencies had so
increased as to place it second, preceded only by the forbiddance
of the unavowed act of begetting; presently, despite its former
exalted prolocutors, it has been advanced to the first of man's
responsibilities, in exigency of his most devastating sin, by the
vegans, who, in their philosophy, intolerant of offence, have
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explored and mapped the extended latitudes that bound morality
in the modern age for all pioneers of advancing culture.
They see that other creatures than man have fallen among
thieves on the Jericho Road and include, unto themselves and afi
who aspire to a clarified perception of what being human entails, all
creatures as their neighbours to whom must be tendered the
courtesy and the service set forth in the ordination of the Pauline
curriculum, tincture of Greek, wherein is taught the application of
symbiosis, the prohibition of flesh, the abjuration of alcohol
(tobacco, cocoa, barbituric acid and the poppy had not then been
introduced to man and had not received oesophageal and sub-
cutaneous invitations to become guests that sequentially betray the
vitality of their hosts), whereby the reformed mobster out
Christianed Christ.
The sincere and alert student who seeks the basic causes of the
impairment of human health should make a painstaking investiga-
tion of the part played by the attempted adaptation of the tissues
of the human body to the use of animal milks as food in the
development of the febrile diseases of childhoodeczema of
children, enlarged tonsils and adenoids, mucous membrane
troubles, tooth troubles, coryza, colitis, constipation, inflammation
of the lymphatic system, deafness, cataract, undulant fever, cancer,
mental obtuseness, juvenile delinquency with its moronic practices
and leave the obsolete dispute as to which should be used, raw
milk or partly cooked milk, to the solicitous champions, fearful
for the welfare of humanity before the onslaught of bacteria that,
through the microscope, look so formidable and who spend their
time making traps and poisons for baccilli, viruses, cocci, spirilli,
etc.
Milk, the culminating phase in maternal sex life, is, of
evolutionary record, a slime. It is aliment for beings who have
not arrived at the age of discrimination and nutritional selection.
As soon as the ability to discriminate is obtained and a degree of
fastidiousness, as to sources and contents, is arrived at, it takes a
well fortified solar plexus to stomach it. This is probably the
reason that adolescents, in whom the instincts have not, as yet,
become completely nullified, must be cajoled by politicians,
government beaurocrats, schools, parents and profiteers and
tempted by sweetners, flavourings and colourings, to get them to
consume it in quantities.
This also may be the reason so many nominal vegetarians can
use it, for few civilized persons have a more vigorous abdominal
brain than the vegetarians ; but it is a misuse of strength when the
abdominal brain is allowed to dominate the cephalic brain,
rendering the latter a poor conductor of World Mind. It then
becomes an attempted perversion of cosmos; a dangerous pro-
ceeding ; the practice and encouragement of the culture of chaos.
Lacto-vegetarians and lacto-ovo-vegetarians are hybrids; they are
stations in an evolution backwards, to carno-vegetarianism ; a
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retreat to carnivorous living wherein vegetarians lose integrity,
distinction and significance. The search for the part played by
animal milk in the human dietary as a contribution to the genera-
tion of disease should be carried on without missionary objective.
It should be implemented by the pure desire to know truth, gain
understanding, to divulge if nemesis trails hubris ceaselessly, if
exploiters must pay a toll for their exploitations, and to discharge
the first obligation in Life Obligation, the obligation to become
intelligent.
What is love? What is compassion? What is fellowship? The
Jains, apprehensive of humanity's increasing acquisition of the
trend to conflict and the use of violence, its studied expansion of
capacity for destruction, answered in the East, five hundred years
before Christ was born. The vegans answer in the West to-day.
Where does " Peace On Earth," so fervently prayed for and so
urgently needed, start, and which when Origin is ignored makes a
hollow pretence, a vain hope and builds an inevitably devastating
karma? The most important ethical principle, for modern man,
is an understanding and obligatory application of the basic general
unity that generates and supports special, biologic diversity.
Outside the merciful consideration of all units there is no com-
prehensive unity. That was understood by the great interlocutor,
Moses, when he wrote the Commandment: " Thou shalt not kill,"
so flagrantly violated by the commanded.
Where lies duty? I have a little flickering light to show the
way but on the bleak, windswept ridges of observation and
experience, it is all but extinguished by a ruthless, unregenerate
mob.

VEGAN COMMODITIES
Christina Harvey
Britvic Ltd., Chelmsford, Essex.
Tomato Cocktails, Tomato Juice, Pure Fruit Juices (orange,
grapefruit, pineapple, apricot, peach). Pure Fruit Juice Cocktail
(golda blended cocktail of several fruit juices) are vegan. All
these products contain pure fruit juices with the addition of a
little sugar.
Calgary Farm, Tobermary, Isle of Mull.
Potatoes are grown from seed, on seaweed manured land,
which is guaranteed free from artificial fertilisers. The price is
about 27/6 per cwt., plus freight, which would be from 10/- to 12/-
to London.
Wand M. Duncan Ltd., Edinburgh 7.
None of their confections is vegan.
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Gilberts Organic Farm, Sultana, Calif., U.S.A.
This enterprising American farm supplies organic, natural
dried fruits. They are not treated with chemicals or oils. Nor are
they cooked, canned, frozen, or exposed to supersonic or active
rays of any kind. The fruit is stemmed, cleaned, washed and
packed after orders are received. Orders can be accepted from
Great Britain.
J. Jessop and Co., Exchange House, Old Change, London, E.C.4.
Date Delight is a new vegan product. It is a pure syrup of
dates, free from any chemicals or preservatives. It is the pure
natural fruit sugar syrup. There is a very high percentage of
Lacvulose, which is one of the two basic nutritive carbohydrates,
the other being Glucose. Date Delight can be spread on bread,
biscuits or breakfast cereals. It can also be used in puddings and
pastries or mixed with ground almonds or walnuts to make a
delicious spread. Date Delight is sold in jars of 15 oz. at 2/6 and
8 oz. at 1/6. 1\ oz. sample sizes are also available.
George King and Co. Ltd., Kingsbury, N.W.9.
Barmene Yeast Extract no longer contains milk and is now
vegan. 4 oz. and 8 oz. cartons cost 2/3 and 3/10 respectively.
Sprite beverage is vegan, too. It contains pre-cooked wheaten
flour, malt extract, sugar, cocoa, barley malt, flavouring, yeast,
dried vitamin B..
Butter Brazils, Walnuts, and Apricots all contain dairy butter.
London Health Centre, 9, Wigmore Street, London, W.l.
All cakes contain dairy products. Rissoles, sometimes on sale,
are vegan.
Shearns, 231, Tottenham Court Road, W.l.
Gooseberry Jiffi-Jell is now available as well as the other
varieties mentioned in the Autumn issue of " The Vegan."
Remember to send your discoveries regarding vegan com-
modities to Christina Harvey, Hornsey Rise,
London, N.19. All correspondence is very greatly appreciated.

VEGAN COOKERY DEMONSTRATION

A Vegan Cookery Demonstration will be given by Miss Mabel Simmons
(Teacher of Vegetarian and Vegan Cookery), at 50 Gloucester Place,
London, W.l, on Friday, March 9th, 1956, at 7 p.m. This will give you
an opportunity to bring your friends and show them how wholesome meals
can be provided without the use of dairy produce. It will be possible to
purchase demonstrated foods afterwards.

TRADE DISCOUNT
It was decided at the Committee Meeting, on November 5th, 1955, that
commencing with the first issue in 1956 the Trade Discount for "The Vegan"
will be 25%.

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 J t (Kljristmas Himur
Mabel Simmons

Parsnip Cream Soup

Pine Kernel and Cashew Nut Roll with Chestnuts
Parsley Balls, Gravy
Cauliflower, Braised Carrots, Roast Potatoes
Christmas Pudding, Mince Pies
Coffee, Home-made Sweets

PARSNIP CREAM SOUP

1 lb. parsnips. 2 pints stock.
i lb. potatoes. 1 bay leaf.
1 onion. Seasoning.
1 oz. margarine.
Slice parsnips and onions; cook gently in margarine; add
potatoes cut small, also stock, bay leaf and seasoning. Simmer
until cooked. Rub through sieve, garnish with chopped chives or
celery.

PINE KERNEL AND CASHEW NUT ROLL

i lb. milled cashews. Seasoning.
i lb. milled pine kernels. teaspoon powdered sage.
i lb. wholemeal breadcrumbs. Wholemeal sauce.
1 large onion (i lb). 1 lb. chestnuts (cooked).
2 oz. margarine.
1 lb. chestnuts put in saucepan in cold water. Bring to the
boil, peel, then cook slowly in a little water.
Mix nuts, breadcrumbs, seasoning together. Cut onion finely,
fry golden brown, sprinkle over sage. Place onion on top of
mixture. Pour over about 6 tablespoons wholemeal sauce. Make
into a stiff dough, form into roll, cut through centre (oblong), place
cooked chestnuts on one half, cover with other half. Place on
greaseproof tin. Cover with greaseproof paper, bake in hot oven
\ hour. Garnish with tomatoes and parsley balls.

PARSLEY BALLS
1 lb. wholemeal breadcrumbs. 1 teaspoon thyme.
2 oz. margarine. 1 lemon rind grated.
1 small cooked onion, chopped. Seasoning.
1 tablespoon chopped parsley. Celery salt.
Mix all dry ingredients together, bind with wholemeal sauce;
form into small balls, roll in fresh breadcrumbs, bake in hot oven
10 minutes.
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 CHRISTMAS PUDDING
lb. currants. i grated nutmeg,
i lb. sultanas. 2 oz. chopped almonds.
i lb. seedless raisins. 6 oz. fresh wholemeal bread-
i lb. stoned raisins. crumbs,
i lb. mixed chopped peel. 2 oz. wholemeal flour,
i lb. grated suenut. 1 cup of orange juice or red
i lb. brown sugar. moselle.
Wash fruit and dry, mix all dry ingredients together, grate in
suenut and nutmeg. Lastly stir in orange juice or moselle. Let
mixture stand over night. Put into greased basin, cover with
greaseproof paper and cloth. Steam 8 hours, turn out of basin
when cooked.

ALMOND OR CASHEW NUT CREAM

i lb. nut butter or cream. 1 teaspoon soft sugar.
Rind of i lemon. 6 or 7 tablespoons hot water.
Beat all ingredients well together. When cold it is ready for
use.
MINCE PIES
i lb. currants. i lb. brown sugar.
i lb. sultanas. i lb. chopped mixed peel,
i lb. seedless raisins. i lb. grated suenut.
i lb. stoned raisins. Rind and juice of lemon,
i lb. apples. i nutmeg.
Wash fruit, chop finely, add grated apple, lemon rind, suenut,
nutmeg. Mix all well together with a fork, lastly adding lemon
juice. Put in glass jar, cover.

PASTRY FOR MINCE PIES

| lb. wholemeal flour. 2 oz. soft sugar.
i lb. nutter. Cup of water.
Rub nutter into fiour, add sugar, mix with water into soft
dough. Roll out thinly. Line patty tins, place mincemeat in,
cover with pastry, prick top. Bake in hot oven 15 to 20 minutes.

CHRISTMAS CAKE
| lb. wholemeal flour. 2 oz. chopped peel.
6 oz. nutter. | teaspoon agar agar.
i lb. currants. i grated nutmeg.
i lb. brown sugar. I teaspoon baking powder.
i lb. seedless raisins. 6 tablespoons of hot water, for agar
i lb. sultanas. agar to be dissolved in.
1 lb. stoned raisins I juice of orange.
2 oz. cherries.
Wash all fruit, and dry. Rub fat into flour, add all dry
ingredients gradually. Mix into soft consistency with orange
juice and agar agar dissolved in hot water. Beat well. Place
mixture in thickly lined cake tin, put in slow oven, bake for 3
hours.
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 SWEETS
STUFFED DATES
i lb. dates. 2 oz. almonds. 2 oz. desiccated coconut.
Stone dates, place half almond in, roll in coconut. Place in
paper cases.
MARZIPAN POTATOES
i lb. soft brown sugar. Juice of 1 lemon.
i lb. ground almonds or cashew Almond essence,
nuts.
Mix sugar and nuts together, mixing with wooden spoon. Add
juice of lemon sufficient to make mixture firm. Form in potatoes,
roll in chocolate or cocoa.

STUFFED CARLSBAD PLUMS

Stone plums, replace with marzipan mixture, roll in ground
nuts.
MARZIPAN WALNUTS
Cover walnuts with marzipan. Roll in ground walnuts.

THE VEGAN STORY

Leslie J. Cross
(A talk given to the Hastings and St. Leonards Branch of the Sussex
Vegetarian Society, July, 1955).
The first thing I would like to do is to draw your attention to
the title of this talkThe Vegan Story. I have called it that,
because I wanted to underline the manner in which I am going to
try to approach the subject. What I am hoping to do is just what
the title suggests: to tell a story; the story of what veganism is,
what it sets out to do, and why it sets out to do what it does.
In the course of the story I shall put before you certain facts
and certain considerations, but I shall notat least, not consciously
try either to convert anyone or to conduct any propaganda.
Just in case there may be some of you who feel that this is per-
haps a somewhat spiritless approach, I would like to explain that
to my way of thinking, it is the right approach.
For while I regard the spreading of information, the free flow of
information, as being vital to the growth of new ideas, I do not
regard it as any part of my duty to try to be consciously persuasive.
I think you will probably agree with me that a man should settle
upon his way of life as the result of inward conviction, and not as
the result of outward persuasive pressure.
With that preamble, let us begin the Vegan Story. And in doing
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so, we must put first things first; that is, we must know what we are
talking about. Fortunately, the word "veganism" has a precise
and simple meaning. It means: the doctrine that man should live
without exploiting animals. Because the question of definition is
so obviously an important one, I am going to ask you to be kind
enough to commit it to memory, so that when we use the word
"veganism" we shall all be thinking of the same thing. Veganism,
then, is the doctrine that man should live without exploiting
animals.
This definition is written, in exactly those words, in the constitu-
tion of the Vegan Society, so that no-one joins the Society as either
a full member or an associate without knowing exactly what he is
supporting.
It is important to notice that one of the results of this definition
is that it makes veganism a principle. It is, of course, a principle
from which certain practices naturally flowbut it is in itself a
principle, and not a set of practices.
A further point to notice is that this principle, this doctrine, is
concerned with one matter only. A big matter, it is true, but a
clearly defined one: the matter of the right relationship between
man and the animals.
What it says in effect is this: it says that the relationship
generally accepted by the world at large is a very imperfect one. It
says in effect that we shall not dp away with the many wrongs done
to animals, nor shall we do away with the harm which results to
the soul of man, until we alter that relationship.
It is necessary, therefore, to look at the present relationship
between man and the animals and to ask what is wrong with it.
What is wrong, according to veganism, may be summarised into
one word: exploitation.
If we look clearly and simply at this relationship we can see that
it is almost entirelynot quite, but almost entirelybased from
man's side of the fence upon the idea that he has a moral right to
use animals for his own purposes.
Again, if we look clearly at this question of relationship, we can
also see that broadly speaking there are two ways in which we may
regard the animals: (1) as creatures to exploit; (2) as creatures to
love.
If we want to understand veganism, if we want to assess its
value, we are bound to examine at least briefly these two broad
views of the relationship betwen man and the animals.
First, let us look at the majority view, the view that animals are
here for our use, and that we have a moral right to use them for our
own ends, provided that we reduce hardship and suffering to the
minimum compatible with what we require of them.
This view is held by the majority of people quite automatically.
For example, farmers talk quite casually about "growing more
bacon," just as you or I might talk about "growing more cab-
bages."
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 Again, the majority view is that we have the moral right to use
animals for labour. To the majority view there is no fundamental
questioning of our right to harness horses, bullocks, camels, and so
on, and make them work to our orders and our requirements.
In practice, of course, there are considerable variations in the
manner in which men do in fact use animals. These variations
stretch from the comparatively harmless to the downright cruel.
But the really important thing, it seems to me, is to notice the
direction in which the doctrine of exploitation takes us.
If we wish to illustrate this direction, we might quote vivisection
perhaps; or the fact that work in the slaughterhouse often blunts
the finer feelings of the men who work there.
Another point we are bound to notice is that there are some
exploitations in which suffering to animals is inherent. That is to
say, that if we abolished the suffering, we would automatically
abolish that particular form of exploitation. Once again vivisection
is an obvious example. Another is dairy farming, principally
because of the necessity of separating the baby calf from its mother.
It is hardly possible to escape the conclusion that when man
decided he had a moral right to exploit animals, he quite inevitably
opened the door to a new and man-made form of suffering, much
of which ends only in one form of slaughterhouse or another.
There is, however, yet another aspect which arises from this
question of exploitation, and it is an aspect which by no means
receives the attention it deserves. I refer to the aspect by which
man harms himself.
When there is interaction between two or more entities, the
effects of the interaction are not confined to one entity only, but
each is in some way affected. What, then, is the effect upon man
of the interaction which he has created between himself and the
animals?
The effect upon man cannot differ as to its essential nature from
the nature of the interaction itself. That is perhaps a rather com-
plicated way of saying something which was said much more simply
long, long ago: as we sow, we reap.
What do we sow? What do we do to animals?
We breed them in millions in order to slaughter them for food.
We exploit their sex functions in order to make them yield milk.
We then take the baby calf from its mother so that we and not it
may have the milk. Often, we then kill the baby calf and we eat
it as veal. When its mother is worn out as the result of one
unnatural pregnancy after another we kill her, too, and we eat her
as beef.
We hunt animals for fun. We vivisect them. We castrate and
harness them.
What kind of a relationship can it be, whose symbols include the
whip and the bit and the harness and the slaughterer's knife?
If these are the things we sow, then these, too, are the things we
reap. The form in which our harvest comes to us outwardly may be
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seen in some of our diseases, in much of our imperfect health, and

possibly also in some of the violence between man and man.
But the form in which our harvest comes to us inwardly can be
nothing less than a restraint upon our own spiritual evolution. For
just as a balloon is prevented from rising so long as it is pinned to
earth by its cable or the weight of its ballast, so also is the soul of
man held down by the chains and the ballast which constitute the
demands of his own lower nature. This aspect of the relationship
between man and the animals is one which requires more thought
perhaps than some of the more obvious aspects, but I believe it is
one of the most serious of all the varying results of living
according to the doctrine of exploitation.
We tend to forget, for example, that one of the most stringent
tests of the character of a man, and hence of his ability to rise higher,
is how he behaves toward those over whom he possesses power.
When he meets the world of the animals he comes up against this
test in its most acid form; for it will not be denied that animals
cannot successfully resist his will.
Instead of living toward them with love and understanding,
which one would expect from a compassionate heart and an
enlightened mind, he lives toward them as an overlord, in many
instances as a parasite, and often he is the cause of considerable
suffering to them.
All this arises because he begins by assuming the moral right
of exploitation. There lies the crux of the whole matter, and there,
too, lies the only place at which we may, if we will, effect a
reconciliation. Until we do effect such a reconciliation, we shall go
on reaping what we sow. Until we learn that the fruit of human
happiness cannot grow upon the tree of exploitation, so long will
the pain and suffering which we inflict upon our lesser brethren
return like boomerangs upon our own heads.
So much for the first and majority viewthe view that we have
the right to use animals for our own ends.
The second view, as I earlier remarked, is to regard the animals
as creatures to love.
Now it seems to me to be self-evident that when we love, we do
not exploit. In the moment of love, there can be no thought of
exploiting that which we love.
It also seems to me to be self-evident that love is free. No-one
can force love; no-one can bind it with restrictive covenants. Love
and freedom go hand in hand.
If, therefore, we accept in principle that it is better to love than
to exploit; if, stumble and fail at various points as we may, we still
believe it is better to keep our eyes on the goal of lovewhat, then,
should we do about the animals? Surely the answer is clarity itself:
set them free!
And that is precisely what veganism wants to do. It wants to
set the animals free; free from exploitation by man, just as in the
last century Lincoln, Wilberforce and the other pioneers sought
to set free die human slaves.
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 Veganism is essentially a doctrine of freedom. It seeks to free
the animals from bondage to man and man from bondage to a false
beliefthe false belief that he has the moral right to use animals
for his own ends.
It is, of course, a proper question, after we have decided what
is right in principle, to ask how such freedom may be brought about.
Clearly, the change-over from the practices which arise from exploi-
tation to those which would arise from love will be an enormous
undertaking. One has only to think for a moment of the immense
ramifications of animal exploitation, and it becomes evident at
once that the change-over can come only in stages. We must take
the most urgent steps first, and the others gradually as we come to
them in order of urgency.
One of the first steps is to develop alternatives to those products
of animal origin which most men believe to be necessary to their
well-being. That is why at the present time the emphasis in the
vegan movement is upon food and commodities. Here is where we
may see the relationship between the vegan and the vegetarian. For
the vegan diet is one which does not rest in any way upon exploiting
animals; in other words, it is vegetarian in the strictest possible
sense, excluding eggs and dairy produce as well as flesh. The vege-
tarian diet, in this strict sense, is one of the many practices which
flow from the vegan principle.
But, as I have indicated, veganism is a general principle which
if adopted would result in many changes as well as changes in diet.
It would, for example, result in the abolition of vivisection, of
hunting, and all other forms of exploiting animals. And while we
are agreed that in practice it can be adopted only gradually, never-
theless there is one thing that can be done now and all the time:
the spreading of the belief that animal emancipation is not merely
a worthwhile cause, but one which cannot be indefinitely postponed.
This belief must seem as revolutionary to the present genera-
tion as did the emancipation of the human slaves to an earlier
generation. But revolutionary or not, I believe that ultimately
it is inevitable; that is, if we are ever to live truly in peace upon the
earth. For surely it is to say the least illogical to pray to a Heavenly
Father for peace and goodwill among men, and at the same time
to conduct an unholy war against our lesser brethren.
Hitherto, the idea that we have a moral right to exploit animals
has been almost universally accepted. But part of the upward pro-
gress of man depends upon his ability to see the false in that which
has hitherto been regarded as true. For when we see the false as
the false, then it drops away from us, and another bondage is gone.
It is the true, and not the false, which liberates. The false cannot
lead to freedom, it cannot lead to love.
For this reason alone, it seems to me, this young movement
whose goal it is to set the animals free has its feet upon a true, if a
long and arduous road.

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 THE USE OF GLUTEN
Dr. Pietro Rotondi
GLUTEN STEAK
5 lbs. flour or wholewheat flour.
1 cup soy sauce (or substitute).
Olive or vegetable oil.
9 cups boiling water.
Mix flour with cold water to form a very stiff roll. Then wash
with cold water until all the starch is gone and only the gluten
left. Form the gluten in a long roll and cut one inch thick. Drop
in boiling water to which soy sauce has been added. Cook 40
minutes. Drain and roll in wholewheat flour, then fry in oil.
GLUTEN GRAVY
2 onions.
2 tablespoons wholewheat flour.
Olive oil.
Liquid drained from steaks.
Saute onions in oil, add wholewheat flour, and brown.
Gradually add liquid until of right consistency.
GLUTEN STEAK STEW
1 bunch carrots.
4 large potatoes.
1 eggplant cut in cubes unpeeled.
2 large onions.
\ bunch celery.
Gluten steak in strips.
1 quart tomatoes (puree).
2 tablespoons olive oil.
Cut vegetables. in large pieces. Add tomato juice and oil.
Cook 10 minutes. Add eggplant and gluten steak before taking
off fire. Thicken with gluten steak gravy. One can also season
with pickling spices, pepper and cinnamon.
GLUTEN STEAK PIE
I quart gluten steak (cubed).
Gluten gravy.
I cup cooked carrots (cubed).
1 teaspoon salt.
1 cup baked potatoes (cubed).
1 cup cooked celery (cubed).
6 medium cooked onions.
2 tablespoons vegetable oil.
Mix together and put in oiled baking dish. Cover with rich
biscuit dough and bake in moderate oven.
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KESWICK. Highfield Vegetarian Guest House, The Heads, offers beautiful
views; varied food and friendly atmosphere.Anne Horner. Tel.: 508.
LAKE DISTRICT Rothay Bank, Grasmere. Attractive guest house for
invigorating, refreshing holidays.Write Isabel James. Tel. 1 34.
LEAMINGTON SPA." Quisisana." First class guest house with every
modern comfort; vegetarian or vegan diet. Mrs. H. Newman,
Tel. 2148.
LONDON.Small vegetarian guest house, 20 mins. London. Terms
moderate. Mrs. M. Noble, Wimbledon.
NORTH WALES.Vegan and vegetarian guest house, nr. mountains and
sea. Lovely woodland garden. Brochure from Jeannie and George Lake,
d. Penmaen Park, Llanfairfechan. Tel.: 161.
SCARBOROUGH.Select guest house overlooking both bays. Highly
recommended by vegetarians and vegans. Mulgrave House,
Tel. 3793.
SCARBOROUGHUplands Private Hotel. , Prince of
Wales Terrace. Tel. 2631.
ST. CATHERINE'S SCHOOL, Almondsbury, Near Bristol Co-educational,
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Channel and Welsh Hills. Usual academic subjects, also Art, Music,
Dancing, Speech Training, etc.
WESTGATE-ON-SEA, KENT. Holiday Flatlets, self-catering, for Vegans
and Vegetarians, 30/- to 50/- each guest. Occasional Vegan meals
available : excellent bathing : no smoking. Stamp for leaflet. Mrs.
Arnaldi, " . Tel.: Thanet 31942.
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