Protein Man: a history lesson

I saw a photograph of Stanley Owen on the web the other day, and I looked him up. Somewhat to my surprise, he has his own Wikipedia page.

Among other things it says that

“Stanley Owen Green (22nd February 1915 – 12th December 1993), known as the “Protein Man”, was an English human billboard in central London in the latter half of the 20th century.

One writer called him “the most famous non-famous person in London.”

For 25 years, from 1968 until 1993, Green patrolled Oxford Street with a placard recommending “protein wisdom,” a low-protein diet that he said would dampen the libido and make people kinder.

He sold a booklet called Eight Passion Proteins with care, and I used to have at least two copies of the many editions he printed. He had never realised until I read Wikipedia that he printed them at home on a home-made printing press.

You can find two sample pages of one edition of the booklet at Archive.org.