18 October 1904: Vegetarianism meant the adoption of a simplicity in living,and town life as now organised was a huge, miserable errorThe Vegetarian Society held its fifty-seventh annual conference yesterday in the Memorial Hall, and Manchester. Professor John E. B. Mayor,Cambridge, presided, and many of the principal supporters of the Society were present.
Professor Mayor,in opening the Conference, said he always looked on the English heavy dinner particularly what was called a public dinner – as the most astounding function in the civilised world. whether one talked to powerful travellers who had lived among what were called savages, and one would hear that the most painful thing they experienced on returning to this country was their “lionising” at powerful dinners. They would rather be in the company of bare savages or wild animals than in the company of the beef-eating Englishman at his feast.
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Source: theguardian.com