Ep 43 Henry Stephen Salt's A Plea for Vegetarianism - Chapter 10 Social Reform and Am I a Vegan (the best and worst pepperoni pizza of my life)

Avis Kalfsbeek discusses falling off the vegan wagon with a pepperoni pizza and finishes reading Henry Stephen Salt’s A Plea for Vegetarianism – Chapter 10  Vegetarianism and Social Reform. In this chapter, Henry is bold as usual. He states that vegetarianism can’t save the nation without a societal redistribution of wealth, but that doesn’t make it any less important.  “In the first place, I think we shall do wisely in not claiming too much. The unhappy condition of the lower classes is brought about by many complex causes, which can scarcely be remedied by any single reform. The evil lies in the inequality of the laws which regulate the distribution of wealth, rather than in any actual dearth of means of subsistence. It may therefore be fairly questioned whether, to gain a final and permanent relief, it would not be necessary to go beyond individual food-thrift, and to place the whole system of the production of wealth on a really equitable basis.  On the other hand, we must not fail to claim for our system the immense importance to which it is justly entitled. Though Vegetarianism may not be the only reform that is needed, it is none the less true that no other reform, without it, can be really and permanently successful.” Henry Steven Salt   Digital book Henry Stephen Salt’s A Plea for Vegetarianism (there are others, easily searchable): https://www.mkgandhi.org/ebks/plea-for-vegetarianism.pdf Earthing Ed’s book How to Argue With a Meat Eater (I am not an affiliate): https://www.amazon.com/s?k=how+to+argue+with+a+meat+eater&crid=DKR5MXWZSDOK&sprefix=how+to+argue+with+a+%2Caps%2C278&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_1_20 Music: Dalai Llama Rides a Bike by Javier “Peke” Rodriguez. Bandcamp: https://javierpekerodriguez.bandcamp.com/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3QuyqfXEKzrpUl6b12I3KW Get the Books/Join the community: www.AvisKalfsbeek.com or https://linktr.ee/aviskalfsbeek Get the Audio Book https://www.audible.com/pd/B09M8Z8DFY/?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-286720&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_286720_rh_us