Henry S. Salt, English writer and social reform activist

“I advance no exaggerated or fanciful claim for Vegetarianism. It is not, as some have asserted, a ‘panacea’ for human ills; it is something much more rational — an essential part of the modern humanitarian movement, which can make no true progress without it. Vegetarianism is the diet of the future, as flesh-food is the diet of the past.” (from “The Humanities of Diet,” 1914; Oct. 1 is World Vegetarian Day) Sept. 20, 1851-April 19, 1939