The Vegan Society

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The Vegan Society ( German The Vegan Society ) is a in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland registered organization, dedicated to veganism supported.

The club, based in Birmingham , was founded in November 1944 by Donald Watson in Great Britain as the first such company. She introduced the term vegan for those vegetarians who do not consume eggs or dairy products . The vegans split off from the Vegetarian Society because it regarded the interpretation of vegetarianism advocated by Donald Watson and his colleagues as extreme and antisocial and refused to support it.

The anniversary of the foundation is since 1994 as World Vegan Day ( English World Vegan Day ) celebrated internationally.

Web links

Commons : The Vegan Society - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Official website (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Leah Leneman: No Animal Food: The Road to Veganism in Britain, 1909-1944 . In: Society & Animals . tape 7 , no. 3 , January 1, 1999, ISSN 1063-1119 , p. 219-228 , doi : 10.1163 / 156853099X00095 .
↑ Interview with Donald Watson In: Vegetarians in Paradise , August 11, 2004.
^ Laura Wright: The Vegan Studies Project: Food, Animals, and Gender in the Age of Terror . University of Georgia Press, 2015, ISBN 978-0-8203-4856-8 , p. 4.
↑ Gonzalo Villanueva: 'Go Veg': Identity, Lifestyle, and Culture, 1970-2015 . In: A Transnational History of the Australian Animal Movement, 1970-2015 . Springer International Publishing, Cham 2018, ISBN 978-3-319-62586-7 , p. 219-242 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-319-62587-4_8 .

[1] Leah Leneman: No Animal Food: The Road to Veganism in Britain, 1909-1944 . In: Society & Animals . tape 7 , no. 3 , January 1, 1999, ISSN 1063-1119 , p. 219-228 , doi : 10.1163 / 156853099X00095 .

[Watson-2] Interview with Donald Watson In: Vegetarians in Paradise , August 11, 2004.

[Wright2015-3] Laura Wright: The Vegan Studies Project: Food, Animals, and Gender in the Age of Terror . University of Georgia Press, 2015, ISBN 978-0-8203-4856-8 , p. 4.

[4] Gonzalo Villanueva: 'Go Veg': Identity, Lifestyle, and Culture, 1970-2015 . In: A Transnational History of the Australian Animal Movement, 1970-2015 . Springer International Publishing, Cham 2018, ISBN 978-3-319-62586-7 , p. 219-242 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-319-62587-4_8 .