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Advocates of Vegetative Food organize an American Vegetarian Society

“Vegetative” – an adjective – meaning – “relating to vegetation or plant life”  Here we share, for the first time on the Internet, an 1849 letter. From the Reverend William Metcalfe to Joel Shew. Writing to propose that there be an  American Vegetarian Society. The original of the letter is in our Ernest Bell Library. ~ And now, Mr. Editor, may I be permitted to ask you, and the friends…

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