Recently I saw this interesting post about the origins of veganism. Besides the interesting historical notes, what caught my eye were the images of the old newsletter which immediately made me curious as to whether or not the OCR capabilities built into Google Photos could handle it or not.

For those of you that don't know, Google Photos has a built-in capability to read text in an image with the click of a button (and much more!)

Download the image to phone... Open with Google photos... And click the third icon on the bottom that looks like a camera lens:

And this is the result! Cool... (You also have to click on the "Text Selection" button)

And wow. It even was able to handle the artsy block letter of the title!

Below are the results. One interesting note is that the third page utterly failed, and I worked around it by cropping the image into two pieces and then it was able to output something on each piece.

Given that the image is very unclear in certain places, it's quite impressive what it came up with, but as I scanned the results, ultimately it was unreadable. I guess we have a ways to go with that one! You'd think all those horrible captchas they make us suffer through would have been enough.

What do you think? Find any good gems of mistranslation? Anyone else use this for this kind of task?

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VEGAN NEWS'

(QUARTERLY IGAZINE OF THE NON-AIKY VESTAJIANS.)

Frice 20. rost f'ree 34.)

Yearly Subacription 1/-

NO. 1.

ROV SUB 1944.

The recent articles and letters in "che Vegetarian Messenger" on
the question of the use of dairy produce have revealed very strong
evidence to show that the production of these foods involves much cruel
exploitation ard slaughter of sighly sentient life. The excuse that it
is not necessary to kill in order to obtain asiry produce is untunable
for those with s lacledge of livestock farming methods and of the
remain in business.
competitior. which oven hussainitsrisn Must rece ir they are to
For years mcny of us accepted, ne lrcto-vegetarians, thit the
flesh food industry and the ariry product inuetry were related, and
thrt in wys they mubaidi seð che nncther. vet.ccepted, therefore,
that the case on ethien1 grounds for the distee of thcsc roois was
consektne would Be Us Tree.
exeep ionc lly strong. And we hoped that sooner or later crisis in our
Th:.'t frccdon has now come to u. Xl.ving followed dict free
to many years ip oth t, bcllove our deta ind cxperiences are
from all animal food for periods ve rying from Lew weeks in comc couc,
bufficiently mature to be recorded. The unquestionsole cruelty secol tod
with the production of aniry produce hnede it clorur teet lecto
vegetarienion is but her if my house between flesh-giting sad truly
hume, civilised dict, rnd we think, therefore, that during our life
on efirth we should try to evolvc sufficiently to make the full journey'.
We can see quite plainly that our present evillertion is built
on the exploitation or animcls, just so ne' civilisations were built on
the exploitation of olves, and we belicve the epiritual destiny of in
is such that in time he will view with abhorrence the idea that hen onc.
fed on the products of animale bodies. Even though the soientific
cvideace may be licking. Te Shroudly suspect thct the great impediment
to man's mora). development my be that he is peresite or lower forms
properties of foods hus yet burely begun, tnd it is not likely thit the
of animal life. Investigation into the non-mrterial (vibrationnl)
unknown at present?
usual materialistic methods or rececrch 1111 bs cble to help much ith it.
But is it not posible thrt cere eult of clinine sing ninci vibrat
A common crit:.e. sm is that the time is not yet ripe for our
Lons from our diet Remy discover the why not only to unlly hcelthy
cell construction but plso tor degree of intuition and pehle warunece
reform. Can time ever be ripe for any reform unless it is ripened by
hunn determination! Dia Wilberforce wait for the 'ripering' or time
before he commenced his right guines clevery? Did savin wasdrick, Lord
Shareabury, end Choles Kingsley tit for such a non-existent moment
before trying to convince the grant des weight of jublic opinion that
arve been frenter. There is an obvious dringer in Icr.ving the fulfilmeni
their intention to poison everybody the opposition. Sey met could herily
clear w.ter snd bathrooms would be an improvement! If they had declared
Evolution can be retrogressive as well nc progressive. Indeed there sens
of our ider is to posterity, for posterity try not hsve our ideals.
are guarded and now visions honoured. For this reason beve formed sur
slways to be a strone gravitation the wrong way unleas existing standards
Group, the first of its kind, we believe, in this or any other country.

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ORGANISATION OF THX GOUF. Our 25 kembers are settered for and wide.
therefore & Committee is not possible. In the beence of other
volunteers I hrve undertaken the duties of Hon. Secretary. Hon. Trensurer,
and Hon. Auditor, and if this under crctic Constitution offends, I cm
open to receive suggestions of tny scheme that would cncblc ne, either
Intentionally or nccidentelly, to embezzle the Group'. funds from
subscriptions of shilling & yerer!
The work of the Group at first will be confined to the prope:genda
contained in the Bulletin. Very great interest has recently been
aroused by our argumonte, end it sceme certain that the bulletin will be
widely rend. Many orders for the first four qunrterly issues he ve clrendy
been receivod, ond mure will come when we cdvertise. J.W.Kobertson
Scott, Editor of "The Countryman", has written to us "I should be gled
to hear what success you have in collecting non-dairy produce con eumers.
I have always felt that from the f.griculturel point of view the vegetarien
occupies an illogical position, for just sa cage cannot be producod
without dlling cockerels, deiry produce cannot be economi onlly got
without the co-oporrtion of the butcher." The clerity by which vegeterions
generally are seeing this issue is rell represented by the result of r
Fecent debate arranged by the Croydon Vegetarian Society, when the motion
G carried almost un nimously 'Thet vegetariens shculo sin climin: ting
all dairy produce'. If we remember rightly the voting vos 30 to 2.
Our Members are pronounced individur.lists, not eaily scared by
criticism, and filled with the spirit of pioneers, fnd one feels they
will never allow their gezine to degenerate into t. purely secretarial
production. All are invited to subscribe something periodicslly to
have a series of articks (of about 500 words) on "My Spirituel Philosophy
make the mr.grzine interesting, useful, and thought provoking. Could we
articles, letters, recipes, diet charts, herith records, press cuttings,
gardening hints, rdvice on baby culture, advertisements (free to Members).
all will be welcome. Letters of criticiem from those who diengree with
operate fully we shnil certninly see an advancement in humanitarinn
us will cleo be published. This is real pioneer work, and if we co
practice, and perhaps we shall rerenl some otherwise Inncccesible dietetic
truths. Let us remember how very much of modern dietetic research 18
ostered by vested interests nnd performed in vivisection Inborntories,
of diets free from animl fuod. We that domestier tod nnmr:ls to-day
and that incidentally we er atill without much dato concerning the merits
population consume the products of these oneed bodice, hoe sre we to
are almost univerenlly disessed, therefore su long as 99.9999% of the
useful social work!
atrictly on a 'live' non-animal diet for Lex yere would furnish data
measure the mischief such foods may be doing?A hundred people living
of inestimable value. Government grents have been made for much less

amel dret de doing? huodies, how on the

WANTED A LAME. We should ell consider cerefully what our group, and our
magazine, and ourselves, shall be called. 'on-dniry' has become cstch
11 shed as a generally understood colloquitlam, but like 'non-incta'
is too negative. Moreover it does not imply that we sre opposed to the
uke of eggs food. We need a name that suggeste abet de ont. nad
ir poseíble one thnt conveys the ide that even with all on fouds
taboo, Nature still offers uan bewildering Burtnent from which to
choose. 'Vegetarien' end 'Fruitarion' are olrendy neocitel with
societies that allow the 'fruits'(!) of cows and Towls, therefore it
seems we must make e now and appropriste word. As this rirat leeue of
our periodical had to be named, I have uced the title "The Vegan
Should we adopt this, our diet will soon become knom no VINA diet.
and we chould nopire to the rank of VIGANS. Members' sugscet ons zill be
welcomed. The virtue of Saving short title is best knum the
word vegetarian thousands of times a year!
us wha, secretaries of vegetarian societies have to type or write the

OUR RELATIONS WITH TE LACTO-VERTIANS. The object of our Group is to
state a case for a reform that we think is more, ante en logics 1. In
doing we ehall, of course, say strongly why we condemn the use of
dairy produce and eggs. In return me shell expect to be criticised. It
will be no concern of ours if we fail to convert others, but we do think

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it should concern them if, dugy their hearts, they know we er right.
In any case, there neei be no fimosity between ourselves and the 'lsctos'.
We all accept that locto-vegetarianism hus s well nppointed plree in
dietary evolution, nel for this reason several ur us mond a great deal
of our time working for the lacto-vegetorira unuse.uring recent years
the two national vegetarian societits have iomated much space in their
me gezines to this question of the use of aciry produce, cnd we hive every
reason to believe they will cttr.ch importance to our mork and ocessionally
report on it. (Before farming the Group, the suggestion was made to The
Vegetarian Soolety thrt such a vection de formed as part of the society.
The suggestion uns considered sympathetically by the Committee, who
decided that the full energies of the Society wet continue to be arplied
to the task of abolishing Pleah-cnting, and that any buch Group woula,
therefore, be freer to not ne on independent body.) The need to prove
that it is possible to thrive without driry produce is, of course, fer
too important for any incto-vegetarian te lanare. resign oneeelr to
Incto-vegetarianism is a, antlernctury avlution to the diet problem is to
accept s ocquence of horrible tryin sinughter- une incidents
part of an ineviteble Divine Finn..leed it be added that it would imply
too accepting the spectacle or grown man nttached to the udder of a cow
without making any clnins to self-righteousness, we recl in
es dignified and rational intention on the port liature:
strong position to criticise setu-vegetnr Anism, beenuse the worst we
can eay will be but repetition of criticism we have alrerdy levelled
against ourselves. hcrefore we shall cxpress the Truth os we see it
ideas if they wish. we hope they will not reject us ror at ting them.
and feel it, and though our friends the lacto-vegetariang may rejeet our

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CONCERNING OURSELVES. far ce we are aware, every Member of our Group
bao discrrded the use or uniry produce for bumi niterien renonc. e rre
not by any menne ignarunt of orthodox dicletic theories, end in exercising
our moral conviction find acust rerute Bume ut these theories. We do
without fear bacnuse ve feel thnte moral chilocopby combined with
dash of common sense more r ticnel guide than theories hatched in
vivisection laboratorica. We will not accept that adequate nutrition
need violcte conscience.. qucation very strongly whcther those dieticirns
who loud the praises of animl proteins have cver tried living on
sensible diet free from such proteine, and if they have not wenil to
see how they can pa useful fudgment.se vow thnt man's anstomy is
unquestionably frugivoroun. We know thet ark drinking by caults is an
absurdity never intended by disture. knoz the: we ere it loot vell
without dairy produce cs we were with it. Ile know that 404 nt lesst ur
COW3 nre now tuberculer. kot this pasteurisevi on ennbles the milk
retailers to sell nilk several days 1. We know what happens to those
who feed on the 'nourishing Cret-clrsu proteine recommended by orth Jax
dieticinne they nerrly cil die of malignent rnd filthy disanaea. Henven
help us if our diot calls us to cnything 11ke the same ogree!

Apart from saying thnt we are 'quite well, thenits', we consider
the time perhaps prenature to take any grert claims for the jhysiological
superiority of our diet. Humbly, your Secretary is able to state that
ho can now cycle 230 milcs in day, whereas yees ago when he stoked
himaclr with milk end eggs he wes rendy for Bol md Breakfast Arter doing
heir thnt distance. He ann also dig hie aliototents ror ten hours n day
without feeling any different next morning, but we must be careful in
moking claims lost the world herr? us eni expectatomos ishte
ruey cheeked musculer monsters who are imrnno all 110a the flesh.
We may be sure that should anything on ever spyer to
marr the beauty of our rhysical form, it will b: in irely us in the eyes
of the world to our own silly t'rult or not chting projer boud'. Agrinet
members of civilises society (who live proper rol' will pass
such a pimple the gront plngiuo of now avaging Hearly all
unnoticed. It is no well thut we ourselves to not our crit:es!
In our more reflective momenta u minut help Shirkin' that there are
greater risks in life than living or clean aninda, I'mitu, auts, and
whole cereals. We can hardly wish to be closed is murel ginnt because
we choose to live un n diet obviously studiat seir proscry tiin.

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Believing thrt Bume Membero may wish to correspond with er ch
other, we prupose to publi h in our next their names and addresses.
Any Member preferring not to be inclu:led in the list shull let me knew.
ile her that a pr.mphlet oppusing the use of milk was written
40 years ago by Herley Otreet epecisllet. Docs any bnppen to
know anything of this public tion?

CONCERNING THOCE NOT WITH UR. We agree that to elimint te cil Sriry
produce crentes pergone difficulties which vary in meenitude fra ne
individunl to another. We ugree also that the present io not the etsiest
time to make such change, but we think thet in lnying the foun.lctions
of our Movonent now, many will soon join us une of their liecece Alme'.
We know that there is particuler unrest in the minds of verrctiri na
Eenerally concerning the use of rennet in checse neking, ini re thie
cppears to be the most glering inconsistency of lact-Vegetarit nism, me
suggest that others do as we did nnd eliminate cheese fires. Our frieni
and fellow menter Dugald Scmple tells us he has never tootel checo,
therefore it ornnot be conoidered ce an essentir.l 'biniing pont' for
body and soul! The following posar.ges from the elitoril of the current
1 ssue of "The Vegetarian Nowo" dces not, we think, fillow of much trgument:
"Most vegetarians are doubtlces were that the use of celve's rennet in
the production of chcesc hos elweys presented s problem to anyone or
humane principles, necessitating es it does the killing of crves të
obtein the rennet. In the wupposed cbsence of tny ¡urely cct rien
substitute for rennet bome vegetarians &bstein alt ether from thc usc
of cheese, except for the single cattoge varietice, abil. grobe.bly the
ma jority of vegetariens take their rition of uriinnry checae end try t
moralista aiceipote their energies trying to forget such things?
forget the incidence of the celve'o reanet in ite mekin." Oh ul.
During the war cgga hrve all but venished, and they can rently
be dispensed with for good without any sense floes in one wolle on the
fact that they are for the mot yert thing more than reconstitutet
erubs and beetles! The climineti n f mik un dounitedly presents the
grer test dificulty. Mut milk isi substitute, but it locs net go
well in tes (therefore cut out tht tes ini ada yet another ton curs to
are able to give the sosurance that we rum in well and strong: that we
enjoy our food as much uver, end that or the new diet has been
arronged the sight and smell of dairy prouec 18 Bon forgotten.
your life!) Those of us who buve lived for long periole without dairy pro luct

"The incidence of di sense of one kind and onother continue to be e
grect lim ting factor in milk prodluction, besides involving lice to the
farmer. Tuberculosis is une of the most intrectable surces of trouble,
So much so that a aperker at the Farners' club recently and we had made
"The Yorkehire zost",
no progress in the last 40 years." The agricultural correspondent,
18.11.44.

"Give me a drink of whisky, I'm thirsty."
"Yu should drink mdlk milk kes blcoi."
"But I'm not blood-thirsty."

67 Evesham Road,
Leicester.
November 24th, 1944.

Dona21 asteen

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