The start of a slow change

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In 1944 the first Vegan publication put it this way. “The great impediment to man’s moral development may be that he is a parasite on lower forms of animal life”. Since the 1940’s, when some people started to eat solely from plant-based foods - without becoming ill - there was, for the first time in human history, a safe release from our dependency on animals, for food. A vegan regime was shown to be nutritionally healthy. From then on, we were able to look ahead to better times to come. At last there was a safe possibility, to eat from plants and dress ourselves in non-animal clothing; from the fifties with the development of synthetic materials to supplement plant-based fabrics we could avoid the leather and wool and silk. Soon after, there came onto the market plant-based foods like soy milk and textured vegetable protein, in the form of good-to-eat products which could replace meats and dairy products. From then on we could see a time when the use of animal products would be totally unnecessary; we could look ahead to a very different world where meat, dairy, eggs, leather and wool would be seen as inhumane and unsustainable products from a less enlightened era.