Found in a ‘junk shop’, tucked into an old book – ……- a little scrap of paper from Glasgow, Scotland – slightly stained, slightly crumpled. It has ‘bloodless’ stories to tell. ‘The Eden’ was Cathie & Dugald Semple‘s ‘local’ restaurant. Tissue-paper ‘Ad’ for a Glasgow, Scotland restaurant – circa 1905 – 11.5 x 11.5 cm. It is now in … [Read more…]
Ernest Bell Library items – ‘Joys Of The Simple Life’ by Dugald Semple. Published by Ernest Bell in 1915. Happy 100th Birthday to ‘Joys Of The Simple Life’ 1915 – 2015 Dugald Semple (1884 – 1964) was a co-founder of ‘The Vegan Society’ with Dorothy & Donald Watson in 1944. Donald Watson wrote about Dugald in … [Read more…]
~ Personally, I began rather drastically over 50 years ago by cutting out not only all meat or flesh foods, but milk, eggs, butter, tea and coffee. Cheese I have never eaten; indeed I hate the very smell of this decayed milk. Next, I adopted a diet of nuts, fruit, cereals and vegetables. On this … [Read more…]
From – Life in the Open – a 1919 book. “Eggs were meant to produce chickens and not omelettes; and cow’s milk is a perfect food for a calf, but most assuredly not for a grown-up human being“. The Vegetarian Messenger & Health Review, p. 237 – Dugald Semple – 1912. In our Ernest Bell Library, one … [Read more…]