A Sun-Burst Letter (1889)

AUTHOR: Pillsbury, Parker

KEYWORDS: animals, food, pacifism, Temperance

SUMMARY (Bryn Skibo, edited Deborah Madsen)

A very short letter advocating for kindness to nonhuman beings. Pillsbury argues that veganism will produce world peace and, along with Temperance and refusal of alcohol, tobacco, and drugs, disease in humanity will end as well:

If we leave off killing and eating the beasts and birds, we shall soon have done killing one another in war. When we learn to live on the sunbeams as condensed in our myriad grains, fruits and vegetables, the very Ambrosia of the gods, and cease to poison ourselves with tobacco, opium, and all similar abominations, all other evil spirits will be cast out as at a word. Disease will no more torment us, and death, only penalty of sin, will die (51).