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Hereward Hubert Lavington Carrington è stato un investigatore, parapsicologo e scrittore britannico.

Tra i suoi soggetti troviamo molti casi rilevanti del suo tempo di apparente capacità psichica; scrisse inoltre circa 100 libri riguardanti la ricerca in ambito psichico e paranormale, prestidigitazione, illusionismo e medicina alternativa. Wikipedia  

✵ 17. Ottobre 1880 – 26. Dicembre 1958
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Hereward Carrington: Frasi in inglese

“Yes; the stain rests upon the flesh-eaters, not upon the flesh providers!”

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Hereward Carrington

Origine: The Natural Food for Man, p. 162

“[The animals] are now especially bred for eating purposes, and if the demand decreased, the supply would decrease also. Further, how is it that we are not overrun by wild animals of all sorts? … People need not worry about the future welfare of the bovine race, if they would only be a little more humane in their treatment of its present representatives!”

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Hereward Carrington

Origine: The Natural Food for Man, p. 159-160

“Man can live without animal flesh; consequently the eating of this flesh is purely to gratify an appetite — and a perverted appetite at that. No normal appetite could possibly crave flesh of any kind. So that there is no possible excuse for the killing and eating of animals, than this — except, of course, ignorance. After all, that is the greatest factor! It is against this taking of life unnecessarily that the vegetarian protests…”

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Hereward Carrington

Origine: The Natural Food for Man, p. 157

“When the soil is given up to the feeding of cattle, upon which man is to feed, the given area of land would supply far less nutriment, so to speak, than would the same soil, if grains were raised upon it…”

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Hereward Carrington

Origine: The Natural Food for Man, p. 162

“How would our society women like to spend the morning in a slaughter-house, before they could procure their meat for the evening dinner?”

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Hereward Carrington

Origine: The Natural Food for Man, p. 161

“Were one to stop and think of what meat is, and what it was, it is doubtful if one could eat it. It is merely dead and decaying flesh — flesh from the body of an animal. … Only by the fact that they are covered up, and their true nature concealed by cooking, and basting, and pickling, and peppering and salting can we eat them at all. If we were natural carnivorous animals, we should delight in bloodshed and gore of all kind! … We should eat our flesh warm and quivering — just as it comes from the cow!”

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Hereward Carrington

Origine: The Natural Food for Man, p. 160-161

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