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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Atwood, M, <i>The Edible Woman</i>,
Canada, 1969, (McClellan and Stewart)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Clare, J, <i>Badger</i><span style="text-align: -webkit-center;">, London,
1848</span><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ritson, J,<i> An Essay on
Abstinence from Animal Food, as a Moral Duty</i>, London, 1802, (Kessinger Publishing, 2009)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Toklas, B. A, <i>Murder in the
Kitchen</i>, Paris, 1954, (Penguin, 2011) </span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157904686214402242.post-40269543006899647132014-03-26T07:43:00.002-07:002014-03-26T07:58:13.384-07:00Vegan Videos <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To round off this blog, I wanted to post something you could take away
with you. Perhaps you are interested in finding out more about this lifestyle,
or maybe you want to know how you could reduce the animal suffering and your
carbon footprint? Below are some great documentaries that I urge you to watch.
You never know, they could be the start of something beautiful! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">( P.s most of them are on Netflix)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Food inc. By Robert Kenner. (Trailer <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eKYyD14d_0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eKYyD14d_0</a>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Forks over Knives by Lee Fulkerson. (Trailer <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-OzTWY2J8E">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-OzTWY2J8E</a>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Vegucated by Marissa Miller Wolson (Trailer <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzChveFa590">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzChveFa590</a>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Earthlings by Shaun Monson (Trailer <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm7Babs_FJU">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm7Babs_FJU</a>)</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The truth is hard to stomach, especially when it comes to
our food. The simple fact is, we have become disassociated with what we are
eating. How many of us know the journey of our food? Where it comes from?
What’s its story? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Perhaps we just don’t want to know. Like Marian in the
previous post, you would think twice about tucking into that steak if it
suddenly became gristle and sinew. Despite this, a number of chefs such as
Jamie Oliver and <em><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-style: normal;">Hugh</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span><span style="background: white;">Fearnley-Whittingstall, </span>believe knowing the
truth is an important part of appreciating your food and have <span style="background: white;">slaughtered animals on air in order to provide an
insight into the world of meat manufacturing. Surprisingly it was vegetarians
and vegans who praised this the most, because they believe in the necessity of
educating people about where meat comes from, whereas meat eaters everywhere
were outraged by what they were watching. However, exposing the truth behind
our food isn’t a modern phenomenon and we have seen examples of it on this course,
especially in Alice B Toklas’s food memoir <i>Murder
in the Kitchen</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>“The first victim was a lively carp...I
carefully, deliberately found the base of its vertebral column and plunged the
knife in. I let go my grasp and looked to see what had happened. Horror of
horrors. The carp was dead, killed, assassinated, murdered in the first, second
and third degree. Limp, I fell into a chair, with my hands still unwashed
reached for a cigarette, lighted it, and waited for the police to come and take
me into custody.'</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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description is reminiscent of crime literature. The animal is a “victim” and
Alice is the murderer, given the task of its assassination. To distract the
audience from the gruesome task in hand, she adopts a comedic tone. She lights
a cigarette after the deed, much like a hardy and satisfied criminal, then
awaits her arrest. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the humour, she draws attention to our discomfort around the killing of our
food. We laugh while inwardly cringing, wondering whether we could stomach the
process itself. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Food is an emotional
business. You hear it all the time; scary tales of women who have gained 20lbs
because of depression, scary tales of women who are nothing but bones after
heartbreaks and every chocolate laced, pastry encrusted story in between. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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from Margaret Atwood’s <i>The Edible Woman.</i>
Stuck in a lover’s limbo, she finds she cannot stomach a lot of the food she
once could, particularly <i>meat</i>. The
question we must ask (being a vegan blog and all) is why does this happen? What
is it about meat that especially that turns Marian off and how does it fit in
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Whilst out at a
restaurant, Marian watches as her “half-eaten steak” becomes “a hunk of muscle.”
She describes how “it was flesh and blood, rare, and she had been devouring it.
Gorging herself on it.” What had once been natural to Marian, the eating of the
steak, has now become an unnatural act because she identifies with the food on
her plate, realising that it used to be “part of a real cow that once moved and
ate and was killed.” Unlike the synthetic rice pudding she ate earlier, this
steak once had a history, a life and felt pain. It is possible that Marian sees
herself in the steak (strange, I know) as she is being treated as a lifeless
form too, only existing for one purpose, to be a wife and mother. When Marian
rejects the steak, she also rejects that version of herself.</span></div>
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she continues to give food human characteristics. She talks about chicken and
how “it came with an unpleasantly complete skeletal structure and [how] the
skin…would be too much like an arm with goose bumps”. It’s not unusual that the
first food Marian rejects is meat- it is the most primal of food sources.
Confronted with meat, Marian cannot hide. She is reminded of her real emotions
and wants to disassociate from them. The truth is easier to hide in puddings
and stews. In fact, Marian does exactly this at Trevor’s dinner party. She “scrape[s]
most of the sauce from one of the hunks of meat…and tossed it over the candles”.
The meat represents her unadulterated emotions and the domestic version of
herself. I argue that, here, she is rejecting them both. She doesn’t want to
get married but she doesn’t want to admit that to herself. She cannot stomach
the raw truth. </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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I’ll be the first to admit that I’m a rubbish cook. For me,
the kitchen resembles a kind of torture chamber with utensils meant for
slicing, peeling, boiling and crushing. Unfortunately, my housemates don’t
share my fear and insist on making extravagant dinners most nights while I hide
in my bedroom, the intermingling stench of frying meat and exotic spices
seeping underneath my door. <o:p></o:p></div>
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My diet is simple. I like: fruits, vegetables, rice,
potatoes and pasta. I like it all the more if I don’t have to cook it. When I
first started this blog, I had hoped to construct fancy vegan recipes and show
off my superb cooking skills. Realising this wasn’t going to happen, I thought
I had better come up with some other way to showcase the variety of innovative
dishes that are often not associated with a vegan diet. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I decided to book a table at a popular vegan restaurant in
London. Now, as you may have gathered I’m not a food snob. I don’t like it when
my dinner looks like it could belong in the Saatchi Gallery. So despite being a
vegan, I had never actually been to a vegan restaurant before. This was an entirely
new experience for me. For comic value and moral support, I decided to coerce
my meat eating boyfriend, Chris, into coming too. <o:p></o:p></div>
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We arrived at Vitao Organic (<a href="http://www.vitao.co.uk/">http://www.vitao.co.uk/</a>) in time for our
6:30pm booking. Quite frankly, I was terrified. I was wearing a faux fur
leopard print coat and only realised my mistake after leaving the house. Plus,
I had a few glasses of wine beforehand and, being a restaurant that doesn’t
sell <i>any</i> alcohol, I was certain they could
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Most of the food is low in calories and fat, so it takes more to satiate you.
Luckily, my boyfriend and I have huge appetites and we got a load of dishes to
review particularly for this blog! So enjoy!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: magenta;">Ash</span>:</b> Before
ordering from the menu, we decided to hit the buffet. There was a variety of
colourful dishes to choose from, both raw and cooked. I went for a generous
helping of salad and brown rice with curried chickpeas and stewed black beans. I
don’t usually eat pulses because I find them bland, but I was surprised at how
flavoursome these ones were. The black beans had a rich earthy taste and really
worked with the nuttiness of the brown rice. They were not watery either, which
can be common in vegan cooking because of the lack of cream, milk and yoghurt
in sauces. In fact, the yellow chickpeas had a very thick and rich sauce. I
assume they used coconut milk to achieve this. The red chickpeas were more tomato-y
and included sizable chunks of soft aubergine. All in all, this was a very good
fresh first course. The only drawback is that they charge by the weight, £1.80
per 100g. I think mine came to about £12. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;">Chris</span>:</b> I must
admit that, despite my revulsion at the concept of paying for a buffet by
weight, the selection of vegan dishes available was diverse and the quality
impressive. I would have bet my arm that the mash had contained butter and milk
and I found the lentil and bean dishes extremely pleasurable to eat. What made
it all the more enjoyable was the fact the dishes were clearly all low salt. I
was thus able to eat a large plate- worth 14 pounds- of food and not feel
uncomfortably full or thirsty afterwards. I was left wanting more and
feeling energetic. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: magenta;">Ash</span></b>: Next, we
decided to try out a couple of the dishes from the small plate section of the
menu. What we have above is the pitiful imitations of “pizza” (left) and “nachos”
(right). They are both raw dishes which means no cooking was involved at all in
the making of them. I’ll start with the nachos. The nachos themselves are described as “flax seed tortilla chips with
pineapple salsa, guacamole and tomato salsa”. They were, to be blunt, hideous.
The flax seed crackers were airy and bland, the salsa packed no punch, the guacamole
was a tasteless blog of green goo and god knows why there was pineapple. Then we have the “buckwheat pizza with
tomato sauce and seed-cheese”. When my boyfriend saw these, he genuinely
thought someone had spread a bit of tomato puree on ryvita crackers. The buckwheat based was strange, very dense and chewy. The seed
cheese was just gross and added a sourness to the whole dish plus I couldn’t
taste the tomato topping or the olives. Every
tentative bite was worse than the last. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;">Chris</span>:</b> When it came to the a la carte menu, we decided to order what we
thought would be safe dishes: vegan nachos and pizzettes. It was my contention
that these dishes would be exemplary of the geniuses of vegan cuisine and would
demonstrate how, despite the lack of cheese and cream, food as comforting and
pleasurable as nachos and pizza were still accessible on a vegan diet. How very
wrong I was. I will deal with the nachos first. They were tiny and resembled
crushed, ‘dehydrated’ green leaves in triangle shapes with three small mounds
of dips. The first dip was salsa and bitter tasting. The second was guacamole
but tasted nothing like it. The
third was the worse of the three. Crushed pineapple does not belong
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The pizzettes were equally as poor. Not only did they
resemble ryvita with a salsa spread, the actually tasted like it as well!
Moreover, the pitiful amount of fake vegan cheese and olive in the middle of
the cracker tasted so bland it needn’t have been there. The only redeeming
factor was the fresh rocket decorating the plate which I ate and which
contained more flavour than the vast majority of the dish. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: magenta;">Ash</span></b>: As you can
see, I’m no food photographer. By the time our main dish came, we were so
hungry we pretty much started eating straight away. Luckily, I remembered the
task at hand and got a photo of the dish before we completed devoured it. This
was the strangest thing we ordered, the mysteriously named Oasis of Sahara. It
was described as “Wrapped avocado,
squash hummus, brazil nut falafel, coriander and sunflower seed cream”. It was
another raw dish and I’m not sure how to describe it. It was a wrap, a
dehydrated falafel sort of wrap. It was like they rolling pinned falafel and
made a chewy sheet out of it, then shoved it full of cucumber and onion and
then covered it with a mustardy, avocado sauce. It wasn’t actually <i>that</i> bad. It had the same sourness that
permeated the other dishes, but at least there were some strong flavours
present. You could taste the falafel and the mustard type dressing was spicy
and made you smack your lips. However, once again, it was not worth the money.
Three small wraps for £12.95…ouch. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;">Chris</span></b>: I was left, after these two starters, in a daze but
eager to see if the place could redeem itself with a decent main course. We had
ordered what we thought was falafel in a wrap with various veg and sauces. The
menu, it seems, had tricked us again. What we received was not falafel in a
wrap but wraps made of falafel with cucumber and onions inside. It was
essentially falafel skin without the soft, tasty bit on the inside. It was
unimpressive and frankly a rip off. For at £12.90 I wanted more than a small-
no bigger than a Sainsbury’s basic- wrap filled with cucumber and onions.
Couldn’t they have packed a tomato in there for a bit of variety?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: magenta;">Ash</span></b>: I don’t usually have vegan desserts because they are notoriously tricky to
make and find, so this was a real treat. It was a “raspberry chocolate mousse torte with a cacao nib crust, served with
mixed fruit”. The chocolate mousse was actually a cacao avocado
mousse. It was creamy and very, very rich. It tasted like a dark chocolate
cream. Actually, the whole thing tasted a bit like a raspberry ripple bar, if
you’ve ever had one of those. The raspberry flavour was very prominent but it
wasn’t sharp, which is good because cacao can be quite bitter in itself. The
cacao nibs were interesting; you can’t really see them but they were like a
thin crispy base. They were crunchy rather than biscuit-y and it offset the
creaminess of the mousse perfectly. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;">Chris</span></b>: Next there came dessert: avocado cake with cocoa, a
chocolate type substance, and raspberry. I must admit, I was amazed by the
result. It didn’t taste anything like avocado and it did taste like a chocolate
cake, albeit a very bitter one. Nevertheless it was with admiration and amazement
that I lapped up the dish although I’d take a normal chocolate cake any day. <o:p></o:p></div>
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complete let down. I felt that it did show the inventiveness of vegan cooking
despite the fact that I found myself craving a big bowl of plain rice several
times throughout the meal. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During the Romantic era, everyone seemed to be fascinated by physiognomy
and anthropology. Connections were being drawn between human and non-human
bodies and, for some, the similarities were too great to ignore. The man we
will be studying today, Joseph Ritson, even believed that the consumption of
animal flesh would eventually lead humans to eat their own kind: “As human
sacrifices were a natural effect of that superfluous cruelty which first
produced the slaughter of animals, so is it equally natural that these
accustomed to eat the brute, should not long abstain from the man”. This quote
was taking from his 1802 “Essay on the Abstinence from Animal Food as a Moral
Duty”, a text that covers everything from the history of man’s diet to the
moral implications. However, this post will focus specifically on Ritson’s idea
about vegetarianism and the body, both in terms of physiology and health. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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carnivorous type of quadrupeds are deduced, one from the conformation of the
teeth, and the other from the conformation of the intestines”. He argues that the
conformation of the intestines is too short to digest meat easily and that our “blunt
teeth” resemble “the horse, the ox, the sheep, and the hare”, rather than “the
cat, the dog, the wolf and the fox”. Ritson believed that humans essentially
lacked the biological tools to be carnivores and instead were conditioned by
habit. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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controversial work <i>The Descent of Man</i>,
where he outlines human evolution from apes. However, seven years before he was
even born, in Ritson’s publication, parallels between the two species are being
explored. As a result of the similarities between man and ape, Ritson believed
that their natural diets would be the same. He discusses “the ourang-outang
which resembles man” and “never meddles with animal flesh, but lives on nuts
and other wild fruits”. He also talks about baboons “principally feed[ing] upon
fruits, roots and corn”. He believes that a plant based diet belongs to “all
the ape or monkey genus except man”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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plant based diet. He noticed that in cultures where less meat was eaten, there
was also less disease and death. He claims that the “Orientals live to a great
age…owing to their abstinence from animal food”. In fact, he was on to
something there. Nowadays, out o</span>f
the ten countries with the lowest obesity rates, eight are in Asia and the
remaining two are in Africa. This is undoubtedly because their diets consist of
plain starches such as rice, whole grains, fruits and vegetables. <span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If Ritson thought things were bad then, he should have a look at this <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-25576400">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-25576400</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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system. Today, unsurprisingly, the lowest wealth bracket suffers the highest
rates of obesity; after all, good quality food just doesn’t come cheap.
However, what we are experiencing today is not an anomaly. We can trace this
trend as far back as the 18<sup>th</sup> century, where meat prices soared
and the poorest people were left without. A working class diet consisted mainly
of bread, milk, porridge, potatoes and vegetables; no meat involved. In fact,
it’s ludicrous to suppose a poorer person would have access to meat when they
could, at times, barely afford bread. As a result of supply and demand, a free
market philosophy and poor regulation, the price of bread could rise rapidly,
resulting in “bread riots”!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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it was an act only reserved for the upper classes. The Romantic poets
were outraged by the situation and saw a meatless diet as a way to distance
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8157904686214402242.post-79785623296062357332014-02-05T07:49:00.000-08:002014-03-26T07:51:00.966-07:00Veganism and the Romantics Part 1: Communion with nature.<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Welcome back! In the next few blog posts, I want to
address the concept of veganism and vegetarianism in the Romantic period. This
was a period where the movement gained some serious momentum and the writing of
the time reflects a growing awareness of the importance of a plant based diet.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> <span style="background: white;"> However, this importance rarely stemmed from a
concern over health alone and there were several factors that played into
changing opinions. To avoid cramming too much in all at once, I have decided to
separate the information into three more easily digestible chunks:</span> <span style="background: white;"> Veganism and the Romantics Part 1: Communion
with nature, Veganism and the Romantics Part 2: Battle against Consumerism and
Veganism and the Romantics Part 3: The Representation of the Body. </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><br />
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nature is, undoubtedly, present throughout Romantic poetry. In particular, it
is the emphasis on the importance of preserving nature that fuelled ideas about
a plant-based diet. Moving away from the simple aesthetics of sublime
landscapes and wild flowers, the preservation of animals as nature also
applies. Although animal rights were nowhere near as prominent as they are
today, several texts at the time addressed the issue of cruelty towards animals
and this exposure was used as a kind of vegan/vegetarian propaganda.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The poem is about a badger that is constantly ‘followed and hooted by [the]
dogs and men’ and the animals suffering is documented right up until its brutal
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graphic and the relentless violence towards the badger exposes the barbaric
side of human nature. Unlike the badger, who is content to ‘root[s] in the
bushes and the woods’, humans are shown as violent and essentially inharmonious
with nature. It is this idea of harmony that made a vegan and vegetarian diet
so popular among the Romantic poets and their readers; for one to appreciate
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<b><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">"We can see quite plainly that our present
civilisation is built on the exploitation of animals, just as past
civilisations were built on the exploitation of slaves, and we believe the
spiritual destiny of man is such that in time he will view with abhorrence the
idea that men once fed on the products of animals' bodies"</span></i></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> Donald
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The term ‘vegan’ is a relatively new one, coined in 1944 by a man named
Donald Watson; it promotes the abstinence of all animal products. That means
no: meat, fish, eggs, dairy, honey or any materials derived from the killing of
animals such as silk or leather.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Veganism in modern society is looked upon as something of a cult; when I
first found out about the movement several years ago I
pictured dread-locked hippies dancing around fires, smearing fruit
over each other’s faces and mating with goats. For some reason, that
obviously appealed to me and I eventually made the transition myself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Despite my pledge, I had never really taken the time to learn about the roots
of veganism up until recently. What I thought was a modern food revolution had
actually taken foundation years before, during the 18<sup>th</sup></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">and 19<sup>th</sup></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">centuries!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Spurred on by this discovery, I have started to dig deeper into the
world of veganism and vegetarianism, especially focusing on their appearance
and influence in literary texts. Several of these texts will be featured on
this blog. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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