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title: "History of Brazilian Vegetarian Societies - IVU - International Vegetarian Union"
description: "History of Brazilian Vegetarian Societies: From Marly Winckler, IVU Regional Co-ordinator for Latin America: Below a pic of a talk “20 arguments in favour of vegetarianism” - in Rio de Janeiro in January, 18 1921, under the auspices of Brazilian Vegetarian Society, by Juan Esteve Dulin."
url: "https://ivu.org/history-of-ivu.html?view=article&id=2685:history-societies-brazil&catid=48"
date: "2026-11-06T00:05:15+00:00"
language: "en-GB"
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#  History of Brazilian Vegetarian Societies

*From Marly Winckler, IVU Regional Co-ordinator for Latin America:*

Below a pic of a talk “20 arguments in favour of vegetarianism” - in Rio de Janeiro in January, 18 1921, under the auspices of Brazilian Vegetarian Society, by Juan Esteve Dulin. The President and Secretary of BVS are at right of the speaker.

Professor Juan Esteve Dulin – Founder of the magazine Salud y Cultura (Health and Culture) and Naturist Society – Buenos Aires, Argentina.

 Ex-Director of Institute and Magazine Vida Nueva (New Life), Montevideo, Uruguay.
 Founder of Institute of Bioculture - Rio de Janeiro.
 Author of numerous works on moral, hygiene, sociology, rational reform of food, naturotherapy etc.
 Vegetarian for 12 years (in 1921) and almost frugivorous at least for 5 years.

![](https://ivu.org/images/legacy/history/history/societies/pics/brazil1.jpg) ![](https://ivu.org/images/legacy/history/history/societies/pics/brazil2.jpg)

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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