1.0HappyCowhttps://www.happycow.net/blogJohn Edmundsonhttps://www.happycow.net/blog/author/johnnysensible/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="1LC8RXjryY"><a href="https://www.happycow.net/blog/wwii-peaceful-humorous-veggiesamerican-vegetarian-magazine/">WWII Era Peaceful Humorous Veggies – American Vegetarian Party – The American Vegetarian Magazine</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.happycow.net/blog/wwii-peaceful-humorous-veggiesamerican-vegetarian-magazine/embed/#?secret=1LC8RXjryY" width="600" height="338" title="“WWII Era Peaceful Humorous Veggies – American Vegetarian Party – The American Vegetarian Magazine” — HappyCow" data-secret="1LC8RXjryY" 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/2014/05/580stamp-mini.jpg580263We love eccentric vegetarian folk! Here is a post remembering E. L. Pratt,  John Maxwell & Symon Gould –  3 very focused US & British veg-evangelizers – active in the 1930s, 1940s & 1950s. Wonderfully extreme! They each exhibited / practiced full-on veg-enthusiasm. Plus we will share 3 related circa 1947 Cinderella stamps promoting vegetarianism. They are being lovingly cared for in the Ernest Bell Library. …… “Many meat-eating persons resent this, but a moment’s consideration should prove the truth of it. Naturalists are agreed that animals left to their own devices are not generally ferocious. Flesh-eating man is.” & “Temperance-workers, peace-advocates, anti-vivisectionists, mothers, or any of the other millions of well-meaning workers in the world – all wasting energy in hitting at nothing unless they aim at the root of the thing that contaminates our world to-day more than any other one thing, – the consumption of animal flesh.” – both from – E. L. Pratt – 1957 …… I have –  “tasted no meat for 45 years” – John Maxwell – 1947 …… “Such are the benefits of severe rationing that in England, which is practically a vegetarian country by now, it’s practically impossible to die any more.” – Symon […]