A short and clear text by Henry Stephen Clubb, American abolitionist journalist and president of the Vegetarian Society in America, written in 1903.
"Being requested to explain to the readers of The Optimist why I am a vegetarian, I will compress within as small a compass as possible, some of the reasons that have induced me, during a long and eventful life, to partake of the direct products of the cultivated field, the garden and the orchard in preference to the productions of the abattoir, the pen, and the fattening stall."