The Vegetarian Table

 Nutrition, Diet, and Plant-Based Recipes

Exploring the Science of Plant-Based Nutrition, Dietary Balance, and Practical Vegetarian Cooking

This book argues for a diet entirely from the vegetable kingdom, excluding meat, fish, fowl, milk, eggs, and anything derived from them.

It was adapted from the English edition for American readers.

Man’s Food

• Health and happiness depend on good food, clean water, fresh air, and exercise.
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• Humanity relentlessly uses animals to satisfy appetite.
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• Yet natural appetite is best met with vegetable food, leading to health and development.
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• Plant food is affordable, varied, and suits human nature, while meat is useful mainly in emergencies.
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• Vegetarian diets, if flavored properly (with nuts and plant oils), are healthy and enjoyable.
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Using animal products like milk, butter, or eggs creates a mixed diet  not true vegetarianism.

Defenders of meat-eating often speak of “humane slaughter.” Yet even experts disagree on what method is most humane: the poleaxe in England, the mallet in Germany, throat-cutting by Jewish butchers, or stabbing in Italy. Each group insists its method is kinder but obviously, they cannot all be correct. As Lieut. Powell noted, this alone shows that cruelty is inseparable from killing.