The Fellowship of Life a Christian-based vegetarian group
founded in 1973   Review By Conor Gearty of Animal Rights:
political and social changes in Britain since 1800 By Hilda Kean
From The Tablet dated 3 October 1998  The success of Hilda
Kean's book lies in the sacrifice of its propagandist main title
to the more intelligent and comprehensive survey promised by its
subsidiary one. Thus she writes not so much about animal rights
as such, as about the political and social changes since 1800
that have lain behind a growth in public and private concern for
animals which has over time earned such a singular reputation
for Britain. The book is a triumph for creative endeavour,
maintaining an unerring focus on its own story while confidently
sweeping back and forth across the boundaries of traditional
disciplines, drawing in only the relevant from the mass of
detail before it, like some vast, discerning whale able to feast
only on the most succulent plankton.  Hilda Kean has been
everywhere on our behalf - polit