Periscope: Have you ever heard tell of ‘vegetarianism’?

100 years ago the ‘Cork Examiner’ published a series of opinion pieces by a contributor known as ‘Periscope’ on social and political issues that are still relevant today

Unloading goods at Lapp's Quay, Cork, in May 1932. Picture: Irish Examiner archive

The advice offered recently on the subject of diet applied more particularly to that during the hot weather, when animal food is even less necessary than at other times.

Scientific investigation has established the fact that animal food is not absolutely necessary for the maintenance of healthy and vigorous life; on the contrary, perfectly healthy life can be, and is, enjoyed by large numbers who never touch flesh meat.