A UTOPIA FOR VEGETARIANS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 14, 21 August 1946, Page 7

A UTOPIA FOR VEGETARIANS

ENTERPRISE ON TROPICAL ISLAND Three men who advertised for vegetarians to join them on a tropical island in the Caribbean Sea told recently of their dreams for a Utopian existence. They are owners of a 350-acre Morat Island off the coast of Honduras. The leader, Harold B. Clark, of New Orleans, said that they will leave the first week in October to begin a vegetarian co-operative enterprise where, Mr Clark sighed “it’s heavenly the year round.” There are now 11 members of the co-operative, which, Mr Clark said, will guarantee each settler food and shelter. Food will be grown on community lands until the settlers’ own gardens are producing. Mr Clark estimated that there are about 800 bearing coconut palms on the island, along with bananas, papayas, avacadoes, limes and pineapples. Prospective members of the cooperative are required to sign a “conscientious declaration,” which reads, in part: “I will live as a vegetarian or lacte-vegetarian (milk and eggs), not eating meat, fowl or fish. “I will live as a naturalist, not using tobacco in any form, or alcohol beverages; will not use allopathic medicines, or drugs, nor will I use white sugar, white flour and tabel salt, nor coffee, black tea, vinegar. “I fully believe in the brotherhood of man, and therefore I will not employ any servants, nor will I work for a member for compensation, or vice versa. . . I will not have any political affiliations or ambitions.”