1.0HappyCowhttps://www.happycow.net/blogJohn Edmundsonhttps://www.happycow.net/blog/author/johnnysensible/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="WNBPqZ6Zib"><a href="https://www.happycow.net/blog/vegan-satire/">Satire, Thinking And Literature – ‘Vegans’ From 200 Years Ago</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.happycow.net/blog/vegan-satire/embed/#?secret=WNBPqZ6Zib" width="600" height="338" title="“Satire, Thinking And Literature – ‘Vegans’ From 200 Years Ago” — HappyCow" data-secret="WNBPqZ6Zib" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); /* ]]> */ </script> https://www.happycow.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Triumphal-Procession-mini.jpg580200Note – we use ‘vegan’ and ‘vegans’ in inverted commas here, because we are discussing a period long before the word vegan came into existence. Even the word vegetarian was not yet in use. Pythagorean & Vegetable Eater / Eating – these were the commonly used terms. …… Our history is rich indeed. Circa 200 years ago in the UK – There had recently been a ‘vegan’ (or close to vegan) Sheriff of London – Sir Richard Phillips. At potlucks you might have got to sit & chat with the Shelleys. We love the genius of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, thinking up the ‘vegan’ monster of Victor Frankenstein. ……’vegans’ were being ‘ribbed’ by carnists. This 208 years old print is in our Ernest Bell Library. It ‘links’ us to these great thinkers, who were both humanitarians, and very often vegetarians, ……apparently coming close to what we now call veganism. All discussed more below…… TRIUMPHAL PROCESSION OF THE HOG IN ARMOUR. The Print Explained Sir Richard Phillips was being satirized in a drawing by Samuel de Wilde, which had been commissioned & published by Samuel Tipper. Sir Richard Phillips was a recently knighted Sheriff of London and also a publisher. Here he is shown as the hog being carried by some of his hack writers. Phillips had been attacked […]