Just read Margaret Atwood's "Maddaddam Trilogy" ["Oryx and Crake," "The Year of the Flood," and "Maddaddam"]. As far as I recall, it's the first fiction I've read where veganism plays a prominent role. I suppose that "The Jungle" could also be included. Anyone know of any other novels out there that go into the subject?

no, haven't stumbled across any

but i should just write one



jungle was a good book when i was able to fight the waves of nausea that overcame me while i was reading it

atwood .... read two of her other books but not the ones you mentioned

Have you read "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelly or anything from Percy Bysshe Shelley?

Here are some snippets from my file on Shelly...

ANNOUNCEMENT #3
From NFL
Raw Food Bulletin #24
1-21-01

FRANKENSTEIN WAS A RAW-FOODIST!

In the classic book Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, we find the following passages (as quoted from the Frankenstein monster himself):

"I abstained and satisfied myself with berries, nuts, and roots which I gathered from a neighboring wood."

"I was more agile than they and could subsist upon a coarser diet; I bore the extremes of heat and cold with less injury to my frame, my stature far exceeded theirs."

Even Frankenstein was RAW!


[en.wikipedia.org]
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Vegetarianism

Shelley wrote several essays on the subject of vegetarianism, the most prominent of which were "A Vindication of Natural Diet" (1813) and "On the Vegetable System of Diet".[40][41]

Shelley, in heartfelt dedication to sentient beings, wrote:[42] "If the use of animal food be, in consequence, subversive to the peace of human society, how unwarrantable is the injustice and the barbarity which is exercised toward these miserable victims. They are called into existence by human artifice that they may drag out a short and miserable existence of slavery and disease, that their bodies may be mutilated, their social feelings outraged. It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery"; "Never again may blood of bird or beast/ Stain with its venomous stream a human feast,/ To the pure skies in accusation steaming"; and "It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust."[42] In Queen Mab: A Philosophical Poem (1813) he wrote about the change to a vegetarian diet: "And man ... no longer now/ He slays the lamb that looks him in the face,/ And horribly devours his mangled flesh."[43]

Shelley was a strong advocate for social justice for the "lower classes". He witnessed many of the same mistreatments occurring in the domestication and slaughtering of animals, and he became a fighter for the rights of all living creatures that he saw being treated unjustly.[42]

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[en.wikipedia.org]


Here's a really interesting article that I'm sure you'll enjoy on Shelly...

[www.isreview.org]
Reprint from the socialist tradition
Shelley: Trumpet of Prophecy