VEGETARIANISM IN ENGLAND.

Temuka Leader, Issue 9416, 8 June 1882, Page 3

VEGETARIANISM IN ENGLAND.

Vegetarianism in England, the Home News says, is just cow unusually active' Lady Mount-Temple has become a vicepresident of the Vegetarian Society, which has signalised the event by issuing a violent manefesto against carnivorous persons. Persons who eat meat are called “ blood-lappers,” “ blood-lickers,’ 1 ‘ patronisers of the shambles,’ and so forth. Although the vegetarians are not likely to convert all their fellow countrymen to this peculiar regimen, they have plenty of opportunity of do : ng good* There is very little doubt that too much meat is eaten in this country, and that the uses and nutritious qualities of vegetables are not sufficiently understood. In Scotland and Ireland comparatively little meat is eaten. The Finns are almost exclusively vegetarians, and they enjoy much better health than the Laplanders who eat flesh. The pamphlet just issued by the Vegetarian Society contains the opinion of an Australian judge, who denounces the Leicester sheep as utterly unfit for human food. “lattribute,” he says, “ a large proportion of the crime of the colony to that abominable animal. Its consumption leads inevitably to dyspepsia, dyspepsia leads to drink. Drink takes a man direct to the assizes, and the assizes leads him to a lower depth still,’ Need we mention that the Australian judge referred to is Judge Ward. The Vegetarian Society cannot be aware that notwithstanding his denunciations it does not take the learned judge long to polish off a leg of mutton.