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THE VEGETABLE PASSION (1975) by Janet Barkas, Vegetarianism in History, Vintage Book

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1970s VEGETARIANISM HISTORY BOOK

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* TITLE: The Vegetable Passion

* AUTHOR: Janet Barkas

* PUBLISHER: Charles Scribner’s Sons

* DATE: 1975

* PAGES: xi, 224

* SIZE: 9 3/8” x 6 3/8”

* INCLUDES: Black & White Photographs / Illustrations, Author’s Note, Contents, List of Illustrations, Selected Sources (Bibliography), Index.

* CONDITION:

This 1975 book is in GOOD condition.
Pages are clean. No tears. Nice clean copy.
Hard cover with a dust jacket.
Dust Jacket has a 1 2/8” tear at the top front, near spine.
Old retail sticker on front of DJ, with surface wear and slight soiling.

* SUMMARY:

”What did Adolf Hitler, George Bernard Shaw, Benjamin Franklin, Byron and Mahatma Gandhi have in common? They were all, in one way or another, addicted to vegetarianism. This fascinating and entertaining social history traces the vegetable passion through the centuries from pre-history to the present, offering unique insights into its religious, philosophical, economic, ethical, and aesthetic reasons.”

* CHAPTERS ON: Roots, Land of the Sacred Cow, Orpheus Ascending, Judeo-Christian Ethics, Da Vinci and the Dietetic Renaissance, British Advocates, Wagner, Hitler, and Germany, Back and Froth to Nature, Tolstoy and the Doukhobors, Nutritional Controversies.

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