"Food is bought, So is drink, by a sort of intuition, With no heed of waste or malnutrition. Lambs are slaughtered, calves are bled, That our young may be ill-fed. Fruit, nuts and cereals which might save man Scarce find a place in his dietic plan. In robbing birds of plumes and beasts of fur We, charges of inhumanity incur. Fed with flesh meats and clad in skins of beast, Life and art suffer, and our health not least. The price, not the art of our dress, Is the anxious concern of our Press Which will praise all that pays, But denies its great prize, To a beauty which won't advertise."
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George Bedborough
1868 – 1940
(1868 – 1940) was an English bookseller, journalist and writer who advocated for a number of causes, including sex reform, freethought, secularism, animal rights, vegetarianism, and free love. He was the secretary of the Legitimation League and editor of the League's publication The Adult: A Journal for the Advancement of freedom in Sexual Relationships. Bedborough was convicted for obscenity in 1898, after being caught selling a book on homosexuality; the case of Regina v. Bedborough, has also
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