Brain Pickings by Maria Popova

Shelley’s Prescient Case for Animal Rights and the Spiritual Value of Vegetarianism

Shelley’s Prescient Case for Animal Rights and the Spiritual Value of Vegetarianism

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“By all that is sacred in our hopes for the human race, I conjure those who love happiness and truth, to give a fair trial to the vegetable system.” “We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals,” the great nature writer Henry Beston wrote in 1928 as he contemplated …

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