{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"HappyCow","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog","author_name":"John Edmundson","author_url":"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/author\/johnnysensible\/","title":"Veganism - A Life Containing No Logical Contradictions - HappyCow","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"oOtClAiJB7\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/veganism-a-life-containing-no-logical-contradictions\/\">Veganism &#8211; A Life Containing No Logical Contradictions<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/veganism-a-life-containing-no-logical-contradictions\/embed\/#?secret=oOtClAiJB7\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Veganism &#8211; A Life Containing No Logical Contradictions&#8221; &#8212; HappyCow\" data-secret=\"oOtClAiJB7\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\n\/*! This file is auto-generated *\/\n!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);\n\/* ]]> *\/\n<\/script>\n","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/1872-1.jpg","thumbnail_width":581,"thumbnail_height":217,"description":"Here we reflect on some of our favorite early vegans (&#8230;..and aspiring vegans), and some of their writings \/ publications, where they discuss 100% perfectly consistent vegetable diets. Definitions of old terms are in green\u00a0&#8211; debate welcomed! We also share some special items from\u00a0our Ernest Bell Library. . 1886 Henry S. Salt &#8211; in his essay\u00a0Food Reform &#8211;\u00a0Published: Westminster Review, October 1886 &#8220;To Sylvester Graham, above all others, should perhaps be given the place of honour in the annals of vegetarian literature; for his &#8216;Lectures on the Science of Human Life&#8217; form the text-book from which the advocates of the reformed diet derive their most powerful arguments.&#8221;\u00a0 reformed diet\u00a0=\u00a0\u00a0a diet of vegetable food In the same essay Henry S. Salt himself clearly proposes full veganism. &#8220;The moderate use of eggs, milk, butter, cheese, and, some think, even of fish, is not necessarily censurable, and often furnishes a modus vivendi to would-be vegetarians, who cannot see their way all at once to the adoption of a perfectly consistent diet.&#8221; modus vivendi\u00a0=\u00a0\u00a0a Latin phrase signifying a\u00a0temporary state of living with conflicting values &#8211; intended to be eventually replaced by a more substantial and thorough solution. consistent &#8211; an adjective = (of an [&hellip;]"}