Salt's wise words include: "The emancipation of men from cruelty and injustice will bring with it, in due course, the emancipation of animals also, the two reforms are inseparable, and neither can be fully realised alone." And in a chapter on, "Sport or Amateur Butchery," Salt wrote: "The sports of hunting and coursing are a brutality which could not be tolerated for a day in a state which possessed anything more than the mere name of justice, freedom and enlightenment." Salt wrote in the pamphlet that, "a Vegetarian is still regarded, in ordinary society, as little better than a madman." Though well-educated and destined for a lucrative career, Henry Salt choose to live a modest and very frugal life of a reform writer. He was practicing vegetarianism since he could not stomach seeing how the individual, living animal is, "warped from its natural standard," to then be at our hands, "scarcely more than animated beef or mutton or pork.".
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) was vegetarian only for the last year or so of his life, though he appears to have supported the idea for many years before practising it himself. Einstein says, "Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the cause in principle. Besides agreeing with the aims of vegetarianism for aesthetic and moral reasons, it is my view that a vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind." Einstein says "I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience." And also, "So I am living without fats, without meat, without fish, but am feeling quite well this way. It always seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore." Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) argued in 1931 before a meeting of the Society in London that vegetarianism should be pursued in the interests of animals, and not only as a human health issue.
