A Vindication of Natural Diet.

The poet Shelley makes the case for the vegetable diet, in prose as fierce as his verse. He argues that a natural, flesh-free way of eating heals the body, calms the temper, and answers a moral debt to other creatures. Brief, passionate, and centuries ahead of its moment, it is a founding document of vegetarian thought. Whatever you eat, it is a bracing read from one of England's great Romantic minds.