Thread by @ScotSuffragette

🥦Following our earlier post for #COP26 on #vegetarianism, we wanted to share some insights & quotes from #suffrage activists who *were* #vegetarians 🥒🌶🍅

☮️ Vegetarianism was associated w/ peace, & standing up against the poor treatment of fellow living creatures 🐄🐑🦆🐖
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📣This quote from MrsDespard describes how #vegetarianism was linked to #socialjustice:
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​🗣“The #women ’s movement relates to the other great movements of the world…The awakened instinct which feels the call of the sub-human, which says ‘I am the voice of the voiceless.'"
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🥖🐁Some #vegetarian #suffragettes who went to prison got better food. Nancy John describes prisoners declaring they were vegetarian to avoid eating mouse-eaten bread.
​🗣“When they said they were vegetarians they were given milk - it was really the milk that kept them alive.” 3/

⛓ And some didn’t do quite so well.

👉🏾Here’s Lila Clunas describing her time in Holloway Jail:
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​🗣“As #vegetarian s we had special food, but 'specially *nasty* food is more correct!”🤮
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⁉️Do you know of other veggie suffrage activists? Let us know...
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⁉️Did you know vegetarianism was associated w/ suffrage? Are you aware of any restaurants where campaigners met?

​📸Charlotte Despard (on L) at a Vegetable Stall-Women's Library at LSE ​@lseps. Lila Clunas–Wiki. Nancy John 1913-02-24 Forward
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#vegan #plantbased #activism