---
title: "Vegetarian Shoes - IVU - International Vegetarian Union"
description: "Vegetarian Shoes: from IVU News Oct 2000 & 2001 A treat for your feet if you don't eat meat! Most of our shoes are made-to-order for us, exclusively to our specification in English factories."
url: "https://ivu.org/history-of-ivu.html?view=article&id=5480:news-2001-1-shoes&catid=224"
date: "2026-11-06T00:13:23+00:00"
language: "en-GB"
---

#  Vegetarian Shoes

**Vegetarian Shoes** *from IVU News Oct 2000 & 2001*

![](https://ivu.org/images/legacy/history/members/pics/vegshoes.gif)

*A treat for your feet if you don't eat meat!*

Most of our shoes are made-to-order for us, exclusively to our specification in English factories. As well as our shoes being animal friendly, our aim is to make our products as people friendly, and environmentally firendly as possible.

For womens, mens, childrens, sports, "leather-free" Doc Martens, Airseal and Safety boots, go to:

[**www.vegetarian-shoes.co.uk**](http://www.vegetarian-shoes.co.uk/)

A note on this archive. The history section of this website is drawn from a body of legacy content originally compiled by John Davis, former manager of the International Vegetarian Union. It represents his curation of historical material, and in places includes passages written by him directly.

Over the years, the IVU website has migrated between several different hosting servers. In the course of these migrations, a number of PDF files were unfortunately lost, and **some links to PDF documents may no longer function**. Where this is the case, we have chosen to leave the original link text in place, as it may itself carry information of historical value.

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