Abstainers!: A Vegetarian and Vegan History of Australia

By Edgar Crook

This book gives an alternative view of the traditional Australian dietary culture. It tells the story of vegetarian and vegan Australians living and working in a settler society founded on a promise of 'meat three times a day'. Through an analysis of literature and newspapers it examines how the diet became part of an artistic and cultural battle for Australian identity. The growth of the health and natural food movement and the influence and development in Australia of abstentionist religious and temperance movements are also revealed.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1980433607
• ISBN13: 9781980433606
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"