...AND IF YOU KNOW YOUR HISTORY: THE FOCUS, THE SCOPE, AND THE DREAM OF A VEGAN FUTURE. THE VISION OF LESLIE CROSS In the third of this series, Dr. Roger Yates of the Vegan Information Project, turns his attention to Leslie Cross, who would have a profound effect on the vegan movement and, with Arthur Ling, the development of plant milks.
He was certainly one of the outstanding people who have served the movement and, in retirement, he went up and down the country, giving his lecture, “The Milk of Human Kindness” - all voluntarily of course, paying his own expenses.” - Donald Watson, on Leslie Cross In 2017, author, blogger, and vegan for over 40 years, Butterflies Katz, described Leslie Cross as her “vegan hero.” This blog entry will probably provide the details as to why this should be the case. Leslie Cross became a vegan in 1942 and was a pioneer of the vegan social movement 160
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and treasurer and secretary of the Plantmilk Society (later Plamil Foods - more of which we will learn about in the forthcoming blog entry about Arthur Ling). Vegan historian, and Head of Communications at the Vegan Society, Dr. Samantha Calvert, points out that, “although the vegan diet
was defined early on it was as late as 1949 before Leslie J. Cross pointed out that the society lacked a definition of veganism.” Donald Watson noted that Leslie Cross was a great friend of his and, as noted above, one of the outstanding contributors to the early years of the vegan movement. Significantly, they both saw
