2nd International Vegetarian
Congress 1890
London, England
Pre- and Post- Congress notes from The Vegetarian Messenger (Manchester):
From the Vegetarian Messenger (Manchester), October 1890,
p.191-192 (from the report of the Vegetarian Federal Union meeting,
held in Norwich in May) :
It was then arranged that the International Conference should be
held in London on the 11th, 12th, and 13th, of September, the London
Vegetarian Society being requested to arrange for the Congress and
for the appointment of a reception committee of influential friends
from the country at large.
From the Vegetarian Messenger (Manchester), October 1890, p.286:
The International Vegetarian Congress. - The press have found food
for merriment, as well as food for reflection, in the interesting
meetings which have just been held in London. "In the course
of time," says the Daily News, "there will be as
many rival sects of Vegetarians as there are rival sects of theologians.
Here are the nut-eaters, with Dr. Densmore at their head, proclaiming
that grain food is as perilous to the body as beef and mutton. Starch
is the heretical element, so to speak, in grain food. But then comes
Miss May Yates, an ornament of Vegetarian Orthodoxy, and Miss Yates
announces that outside wholemeal bread there is no salvation. These
are two schools or churches of the Vegetarian faith - the nut-eaters
and the grain eaters." At least, this was what the representative
of the Daily News gathered from what he heard.
same issue, p.287: Vegetarianism and the press.- The International
Congress will be quite a landmark in the history of Vegetarianism
in England. No Vegetarian meeting has ever before so enturely gained
the attention of the press. Not only the Daily News, but other
important journals, such as the Standard, the Daily Graphic,
and the Pall Mall Gazette, found space for the notice of the
meeting.
From the Vegetarian Messenger (Manchester), October 1890,
p.340 (from the report of the Annual Meeting of The Vegetarian Society):
Under the auspices of this [Vegetarian Federal] union there was an
International Vegetarian Congress, held in London in September, extending
over three days (11th, 12th, and 13th), to which representatives were
invited from various countries besides England. Delegates were present
from France, Germany, Italy, and America, and from many of the local
societies at home, while The Vegetarian Society was represented by
the Rev. Jas. Clark, Messrs. P. Foxcroft, W. Harrison, A. Tongue,
and Joseph Knight. The meetings were numerically successful, and considerable
public attention has been directed towards Vegetarianism by the holding
of this congress, while it has afforded an opportunity for the meeting
together of representatives of many societies, and of different nationalities.
The organising of the Congress was placed in the hands of the London
Society, a Reception Committee being subsequently formed of representatives
from all over the country.
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