Lifestyle and diet Fruitlands (transcendental center)
greaves table of circumstantial law, revised fruitlands co-founder charles lane
fruitlands members wore linen clothes , canvas shoes; cotton fabric forbidden because exploited slave labor , wool banned because came sheep. bronson alcott , lane believed animals should not exploited meat or labor, used no animals farming. arose out of 2 beliefs: animals less intelligent humans , that, therefore, duty of humans protect them; , using animals tainted work , food, since animals not enlightened , therefore unclean. eventually, winter coming, alcott , lane compromised , allowed ox , cow.
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