Avery Yale Kamila wrote:

“I’ve written another column about Maine’s lost vegetarian history, which appears in today’s Maine Sunday Telegram, and I thought you might be interested. In this column. I discuss ideas expressed in Maine’s first pro-vegetarian publication, the Pleasure Boat, an alternative weekly newspaper which began publication in 1845 and continued until 1862.

The Pleasure Boat was published by radical reformer and missionary Jeremiah Hacker, who advocated in favor of many reform efforts including abolition, women’s rights and temperance — all closely tied to the era’s vegetarian movement. 

In the July 20, 1854 edition, for example, Hacker linked meat consumption to the oppression of women, writing: “Just look at the slavery that perverted appetite imposes on women! Three times a day, in hot weather, they must fire up the cookstove to roast, boil or fry flesh, and prepare hot tea or coffee, to fire the blood! When a brown loaf, and a pitcher of water from that cool fountain, with a handful of plums or fruit of some kind, would furnish a cooling and more nourishing repast.”

See article at:

https://www.pressherald.com/2021/02/14/a-19th-century-radical-newspaper-published-in-portland-espoused-vegetarianism/

Avery Yale Kamila, Vegan Kitchen columnist, Maine Sunday Telegram

https://www.pressherald.com/food/vegan-kitchen/