Marx becomes a vegetarian. St Helier August 1879
In August 1879 Marx spent some time in St Helier, Jersey, with one of his daughters, Eleanor (Tussy).
On 14th August he wrote to Engels that ‘we are leaving our present lodgings in St Aubin because Tussy and I cannot stand the monotonous daily fare of lamb or MUTTON in consequence of which I have become in the last few days an involuntary VEGETARIAN
As a consequence Marx moved to The Hôtel de l’Europe which he described as ‘excellent’ presumably providing different kinds of meat to allow him to abandon his temporary vegetarianism.
In the later Victorian period vegetarianism was often seen by socialists as a ‘fad’ a sign of someone who preferred to change themselves rather than try and change the world, hence Marx’s rather dismissive attitude it must be suspected.
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