---
title: "wvc26 - IVU - International Vegetarian Union"
description: "The IVU is a growing global network of independent organizations which are promoting vegetarianism worldwide."
url: "https://ivu.org/history-of-ivu.html?view=category&id=174"
date: "2026-11-05T23:56:40+00:00"
language: "en-GB"
---

wvc26

 [ ![The editorial from The Vegetarian News, July](https://ivu.org/images/legacy/history/banners/congress-wvc26-editorial.png) ](https://ivu.org/history-of-ivu.html?view=article&id=3775:congress-wvc26-editorial&catid=174)

## [The editorial from The Vegetarian News, July](https://ivu.org/history-of-ivu.html?view=article&id=3775:congress-wvc26-editorial&catid=174)

"Not all the Whit-week conferences are of the dry-as-dust variety." It is with this sentence that the writer of the well-known "M…

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 [ ![From The Vegetarian News (London), July 1926](https://ivu.org/images/legacy/history/banners/congress-wvc26-egerod.png) ](https://ivu.org/history-of-ivu.html?view=article&id=3776:congress-wvc26-egerod&catid=174)

## [From The Vegetarian News (London), July 1926](https://ivu.org/history-of-ivu.html?view=article&id=3776:congress-wvc26-egerod&catid=174)

THE WORK OF DR. HINDHEDE IN NUTRITION RESEARCH IN ITS RELATION TO VEGETARIANISM. By OLUF EGEROD, M.A. (President, Danish Vegetari…

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 [ ![From The Vegetarian News (London), May 1926](https://ivu.org/images/legacy/history/banners/congress-wvc26-esperanto.png) ](https://ivu.org/history-of-ivu.html?view=article&id=3777:congress-wvc26-esperanto&catid=174)

## [From The Vegetarian News (London), May 1926](https://ivu.org/history-of-ivu.html?view=article&id=3777:congress-wvc26-esperanto&catid=174)

In view of the International Vegetarian Congress, the Esperanta Vegetara Societo issues a cordial invitation to all vegetarians t…

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 [ ![6th World Vegetarian Congress 1926](https://ivu.org/images/legacy/history/banners/congress-wvc26-index.png) ](https://ivu.org/hv-congress-main-congress-wvc26-index.html)

## [6th World Vegetarian Congress 1926](https://ivu.org/hv-congress-main-congress-wvc26-index.html)

A note on this archive. The history section of this website is drawn from a body of legacy content originally compiled by John Da…

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 [ ![Pre-amble to the Congress report from The Vegetarian](https://ivu.org/images/legacy/history/banners/congress-wvc26-official-report.png) ](https://ivu.org/history-of-ivu.html?view=article&id=3779:congress-wvc26-official-report&catid=174)

## [Pre-amble to the Congress report from The Vegetarian](https://ivu.org/history-of-ivu.html?view=article&id=3779:congress-wvc26-official-report&catid=174)

Pre-amble to the Congress report from The Vegetarian (Manchester):

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 [ ![Photos from The Vegetarian (Manchester) and The](https://ivu.org/images/legacy/history/congress/wvc26/group.jpg) ](https://ivu.org/history-of-ivu.html?view=article&id=3780:congress-wvc26-photos&catid=174)

## [Photos from The Vegetarian (Manchester) and The](https://ivu.org/history-of-ivu.html?view=article&id=3780:congress-wvc26-photos&catid=174)

Photos from The Vegetarian (Manchester) and The Vegetarian News (London), the first three being printed in both, shortly after th…

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