history of vegetarianism Archives

General/ vegan history/ vegetarian history

Veg(etari)an Marketing – promotional flyers – from 123+/- years ago.

. Members of The London Vegetarian Society in 1891. (1) . Vegetarianism defined – circa 1890 ~ …….. growing slowly but surely to be a great factor in raising and purifying its age. It points towards PERFECT HEALTH. It points towards GENTLENESS, KINDNESS, HUMANENESS. It points towards SELF-CONQUEST. It gathers up the seeds that have been scattered by sages ever since the world began, and the jewels that are to…

December 3, 2013 (Last Updated: July 24, 2016) By John Edmundson

General/ vegan history/ vegetarian history

100 years old plant-eating identical twins! The Ernest Bell Memorial Library

These wonderful vegetarian-themed children’s story books have survived for 99 years – but their original owners were less fortunate. Title: Stories from the...…

September 19, 2013 (Last Updated: July 24, 2016) By John Edmundson

General

… a country in reverse… snippets of a former… japanese vegetarian history… a country where vegetarianism prevailed

Mitsuru Kakimoto of the Japanese Vegetarian Society writes: “A survey that I conducted of 80 Westerners, including Americans, Englishmen and Canadians, revealed that approximately half of them believed that vegetarianism originated in India. Some respondents assumed that vegetarianism had its origin in China or Japan. It seems to me that the reason Westerners associate vegetarianism with China or Japan is Buddhism. It is no wonder, and in fact we could…

October 17, 2010 (Last Updated: March 17, 2011) By John Edmundson