{"id":6884,"date":"2013-12-29T19:50:39","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T03:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/?p=6884"},"modified":"2019-11-12T16:33:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T00:33:44","slug":"the-vegan-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/the-vegan-police\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;Vegan Police&#8217; &#8211; making their first appearance 100 years ago &#8211; aka &#8211; &#8216;A Glimpse of the Future &#8211; In a Compulsory Vegetarian Age&#8217;."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><del><a href=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/theveganpolice580.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6885 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/theveganpolice580.jpg\" alt=\"theveganpolice580\" width=\"548\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/theveganpolice580.jpg 574w, https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/theveganpolice580-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><\/a><\/del><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>A GLIMPSE OF THE FUTURE \u2013 IN A COMPULSORY VEGETARIAN AGE<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>A raid on a meat-eating den<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Ernest Bell Library<\/strong><\/em> has a growing collection of <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>veg-art<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; &#8230;art, illustrations, cartoons &amp; photos benefiting animals. (1)<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Here is an example &#8211;<\/span><\/strong> &#8230;thank you to Arthur Watts (2) &amp; Clement King Shorter (3) !<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&#8216;The Vegan Police&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8211; making their first appearance 100+ years ago &#8211; AKA &#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>A GLIMPSE OF THE FUTURE &#8211; IN A COMPULSORY VEGETARIAN AGE<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>A raid on a meat-eating den<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8211; a cartoon drawn by Arthur Watts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">From a 1912 issue of the weekly London magazine \u00a0&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Sphere: An Illustrated Newspaper for the Home<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">From the issue\u00a0of December 28th, 1912<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Volume LI., No. 675<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8230;on page 336<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The\u00a0Sphere<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0was\u00a0founded\u00a0&amp;\u00a0owned<br \/>\nby\u00a0Clement\u00a0King\u00a0Shorter.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0addition\u00a0to\u00a0founding\u00a0<strong>Sketch<\/strong>\u00a0and<br \/>\n<strong>The Sphere<\/strong>, Clement\u00a0King\u00a0Shorter<br \/>\nwas\u00a0also\u00a0the\u00a0founder\u00a0of\u00a0<strong>The\u00a0Tatler<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Arthur Watts (1883\u20131935) was an illustrator and artist who was killed in an air-plane crash over the Swiss Alps. His first drawing for<strong> <em>Punch<\/em><\/strong>, the English humor magazine, was published in 1912 and his work continued to appear regularly until the time of his death.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Sphere<\/em> <\/strong>was connected to <strong><em>Black &amp; White<\/em><\/strong> magazine &#8211; someone there really liked animals &#8211; probably Clement King Shorter himself.\u00a0<strong><em>The\u00a0Ernest Bell Library<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0also has some fine anti-vivisection pieces which <em><strong>Black &amp; White<\/strong><\/em> published &#8211; I will dig them out &amp; scan some of them.<\/p>\n<p>Here is Clement King Shorter &#8230;.quoting the author George Borrow &#8211; &#8230;quoting Sir Richard Phillips (4) &#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">&#8216;During his sojournment in London this animal had been killed; and on the very day of his return to his father&#8217;s house, he partook of part of his favourite at dinner, without his being made acquainted with the circumstance of its having been slaughtered during his absence. On learning this, however, he experienced a sudden indisposition; and declared that so great an effect had the idea of his having eaten part of his slaughtered favourite upon him, that he would never again taste animal food; a vow to which he has hitherto firmly adhered.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; taken from his book &#8211; <strong><em>George Borrow and his circle<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; from page 88. (5)<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">If anyone would like a high res. scan of the cartoon &#8211; just send an email to<\/span><span style=\"color: #008000;\">:<\/span> <span style=\"color: #008000;\">&#8211;\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>humanitarianleague (at) outlook (dot) com\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8211; or message me through <strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">HappyCow<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> &#8211;<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/author\/JohnnySensible\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/author\/JohnnySensible\/<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>NOTES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(1) More about &#8211;\u00a0<em><strong>The Ernest Bell Library<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/remembering-vegetarian-pioneers-henry-s-salt-ernest-bell\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/remembering-vegetarian-pioneers-henry-s-salt-ernest-bell\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(2) More about &#8211; Arthur Watts &#8211;\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arthur_Watts_(illustrator)\"  rel=\"external nofollow\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arthur_Watts_(illustrator)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(3) More about &#8211; Clement King Shorter &#8211;\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clement_King_Shorter\"  rel=\"external nofollow\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clement_King_Shorter<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">(4) More about &#8211; Sir Richard Phillips &#8211;\u00a0<\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sir_Richard_Phillips\" style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"  rel=\"external nofollow\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sir_Richard_Phillips<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0Sir Richard Phillips was the first &amp; only ever &#8216;almost vegan Sheriff of London&#8217; in 1807.\u00a0The\u00a0<\/span><strong style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Ernest Bell Library<\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0also has\u00a0a couple of glorious original very early 1800s original cartoons &amp; books connected to\u00a0Sir Richard Phillips.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>(5) The book &#8211;<strong><em> George Borrow and his circle<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; the whole book is here &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/19767\/19767-h\/19767-h.htm\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer external\">http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/19767\/19767-h\/19767-h.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Permission to ramble just a little please!<\/strong> <\/span>&#8211; one nice thing deserves to lead to anothe<span style=\"color: #000000;\">r &#8211; <\/span><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">George Borrow&#8217;s<br \/>\n&#8211;<\/span> Glamorgan Sausages<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; properly veganized.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/VeganGlamSaus.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6898 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/VeganGlamSaus.jpg\" alt=\"VeganGlamSaus\" width=\"400\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/VeganGlamSaus.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/VeganGlamSaus-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Glamorgan sausage (Welsh: Selsig Morgannwg) is a traditional Welsh vegetarian sausage for which the main ingredients are cheese (usually Caerphilly), leeks and breadcrumbs. \u00a0Glamorgan sausage is mentioned by George Borrow in his work, Wild Wales, written in the 1850s. &#8211;\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Glamorgan_sausage\"  rel=\"external nofollow\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Glamorgan_sausage<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Glamorgan Sausages &#8211; are vegan when they are made with &#8211; Sheese &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.buteisland.com\/a_sheese_home.htm\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer external nofollow\">http:\/\/www.buteisland.com\/a_sheese_home.htm<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0(or another vegan brand).<\/p>\n<p>Here is a gorgeous vegan <strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Glamorgan sausage\u00a0recipe<\/span><\/strong> by Mel &#8211; read the full article &amp; recipe here &#8211; \u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/veganisethis.blogspot.hk\/2011\/03\/glamorgan-sausages-selsig-morgannwg.html\"  rel=\"external nofollow\">http:\/\/veganisethis.blogspot.hk\/2011\/03\/glamorgan-sausages-selsig-morgannwg.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><b>Glamorgan Sausages<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>3 cups fresh breadcrumbs<br \/>\n1 leek (white part only), finely chopped<br \/>\n50g grated cheezly<br \/>\n2 tablespoons nutritional yeast<br \/>\n1 tablespoon fresh parsley, chopped<br \/>\n1\/2 teaspoon dry mustard powder<br \/>\n2 tablespoons ground flax seeds, mixed with 6 tablespoons water<br \/>\n1\/4 cup plain flour<br \/>\n1\/2 cup soy milk<br \/>\n1\/2 cup cornflake crumbs or packaged breadcrumbs<br \/>\nOlive oil, for frying<\/p>\n<p>Mix the fresh breadcrumbs, leek, cheezly, nutritional yeast, parsley, salt, pepper and mustard in a large bowl. Stir through the flax seeds\/water mixture until well combined. Test the mixture by squeezing a little in your palm, If it&#8217;s too crumbly to bind together, drizzle in a little soy milk.<\/p>\n<p>Divide into 10-12 balls, then form each ball into a sausage shape. Toss each sausage in flour, shaking off the excess, then dunk into soy milk and coat with the cornflake\/bread crumbs. Place the sausages on a plate and refrigerate for 20-30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Heat some oil in a frying pan over low-medium heat or warm up a BBQ grill. Add the chilled sausages and cook, turning gently until golden on all sides.<\/p>\n<p>Serve with tomato relish\/chutney, or tomato\/BBQ sauce also works well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A GLIMPSE OF THE FUTURE \u2013 IN A COMPULSORY VEGETARIAN AGE A raid on a meat-eating den The Ernest Bell Library has a growing collection of veg-art &#8211; &#8230;art, illustrations, cartoons &amp; photos benefiting animals. (1) Here is an example &#8211; &#8230;thank you to Arthur Watts (2) &amp; Clement King Shorter (3) ! &#8216;The Vegan Police&#8217; &#8211; making their first appearance 100+ years ago &#8211; AKA &#8211; A GLIMPSE OF THE FUTURE &#8211; IN A COMPULSORY VEGETARIAN AGE A raid on a meat-eating den &#8211; a cartoon drawn by Arthur Watts. From a 1912 issue of the weekly London magazine \u00a0&#8211; The Sphere: An Illustrated Newspaper for the Home From the issue\u00a0of December 28th, 1912 Volume LI., No. 675 &#8230;on page 336 The\u00a0Sphere\u00a0was\u00a0founded\u00a0&amp;\u00a0owned by\u00a0Clement\u00a0King\u00a0Shorter. In\u00a0addition\u00a0to\u00a0founding\u00a0Sketch\u00a0and The Sphere, Clement\u00a0King\u00a0Shorter was\u00a0also\u00a0the\u00a0founder\u00a0of\u00a0The\u00a0Tatler. Arthur Watts (1883\u20131935) was an illustrator and artist who was killed in an air-plane crash over the Swiss Alps. His first drawing for Punch, the English humor magazine, was published in 1912 and his work continued to appear regularly until the time of his death. 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