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ORGANIZATIONS
American Dietetic Association (ADA). 120 South Riverside
Plaza, Suite 2000, Chicago, IL 60606-6995. Telephone:
(800): 877-1600. Website: http://www.eatright.org.
American Vegan Society (AVS). 56 Dinshah Lane, P. O. Box
369, Malaga, NJ 08328. Telephone: (856) 694-2887.
Website: http://www.americanvegan.org/index.htm.
Dietitians of Canada/Les die ́te ́tistes du Canada (DC). 480
University Avenue, Suite 604, Toronto, Ontario, Can-
ada M5G 1V2. Telephone: (416) 596-0857. Website:
http://www.dietitians.ca.
Movement for Compassionate Living (MCL). 105 Cyfyng
Road, Ystalyfera, Swansea SA9 2BT, United Kingdom.
No telephone. Website: http://www.mclveganway.
org.uk/.
Seventh-day Adventist Dietetic Association (SDADA). 9355
Telfer Run, Orlando, FL 32817.Website: http://www.
sdada.org. SDADA is an official affiliate of the ADA.
The Vegan Society. Donald Watson House, 7 Battle Road,
St. Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, TN37 7AA, United
Kingdom. Telephone: 01424 427393. Website: http://
http://www.vegansociety.com. The oldest organized vegan
group, founded in 1944.
Vegetarian Resource Group (VRG). P.O. Box 1463, Dept.
IN, Baltimore, MD 21203. Telephone: (410) 366-
VEGE. Website: http://www.vrg.org/index.htm. Pub-
lishesVegetarian Journal, a quarterly periodical that
contains many articles of interest to vegans.Rebecca J. Frey, PhDVegetarianism
Definition
Vegetarianism refers to the practice of excluding
meat, poultry, and fish from the diet. The word was
coined in 1847, when the Vegetarian Society of the
United Kingdom—the oldest organized vegetarian
group in the world—was founded in Ramsgate, Kent.
The Society, which has included George Bernard Shaw
and Mahatma Gandhi among its members, chose the
wordvegetarianfor its name because it is derived fromVegetarianism