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John Davis

Gustav Schlickeysen - 1875 German vegan, raw-foodist, fruitarian

John Davis | February 8, 2012

In 1875 Gustav Schlickeysen published a book called Obst und Brod - Eine Wissenschaftliche Diätetik – which was translated and re-published in New York,...

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J Morris Hicks

A tiny few eating a perfect diet? -- or truly changing the world?

J Morris Hicks | February 6, 2012

  Dr. T. Colin Campbell -- author of The China Study and the world's leading authority on health promoting, plant-based nutrition. Keeping the "big...

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John Davis

Medieval Mindsets - 'vegans' in the middle ages

John Davis | February 1, 2012

There were people who didn’t eat meat in Medieval Europe, and in Asia, but mostly for very different reasons to what we associate with...

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John Davis

John Frank Newton - and the 'vegan' commune of 1813

John Davis | January 25, 2012

John Frank Newton was a pivotal character in an extraordinary group of people who challenged almost every social convention of the rigid-minded early 19th...

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John Davis

IVU and Vegsource - together at last!

John Davis | January 18, 2012

In October 2012 the 40th IVU World Veg Congress will join with the Vegsource Healthy Lifestyle Expo in Los Angeles, California. We’ll still be...

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John Davis

Henry Salt - the father of animal rights

John Davis | January 11, 2012

Henry Salt died in 1939, age 88, five years before the invention of the word ‘vegan’, but for his last 55 years he clearly...

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John Davis

Were there Vegans in the Ancient World?

John Davis | January 4, 2012

We seem to be getting an increase in those silly lists of ‘famous historical vegans’, nearly all just nonsense and wishful thinking.  I’ve seen...

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Sarah Taylor

The UNITED NATIONS Advocates a Vegan Diet!

Sarah Taylor | December 29, 2011

While the US leads the world in many things, we seem to be sadly behind in the area of food.  Huge corporate interests lobby...

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John Davis

The Year of the Veg

John Davis | December 27, 2011

2011 was the Year of the Rabbit in the Chinese calendar - but for IVU it was the year of the first ever veg...

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