--- title: "Gandhi and Vegetarianism in England - The Vegetarian Editorial, 14 March 1891 - IVU - International Vegetarian Union" description: "Gandhi and Vegetarianism in England - The Vegetarian Editorial, 14 March 1891: : This is from the editorial of that week's edition, it doesn't mention Gandhi by name bt was oviously referring to him: One of our Indian correspondents in England reminds us that though this winter has been so terribly severe, yet he has never" url: "https://ivu.org/international-vegetarian-union/resources/interviews/2508-history-gandhi-1891-6.html" date: "2026-11-05T23:58:56+00:00" language: "en-GB" --- # Gandhi and Vegetarianism in England - The Vegetarian Editorial, 14 March 1891 ![Gandhi and Vegetarianism in England - The Vegetarian Editorial, 14 March 1891](https://ivu.org/images/legacy/history/banners/history-gandhi-1891-6.png)*From The Vegetarian (London), March 14, 1891:* *This is from the editorial of that week's edition, it doesn't mention Gandhi by name bt was oviously referring to him:* One of our Indian correspondents in England reminds us that though this winter has been so terribly severe, yet he has never swerved from his life Vegetarianism, and has been strong and well throughout. English Vegetarians can hardly appreciate the enormous amount of temptation that young Indians have to stand when they come to England, and are told that "it is all very well to be Vegetarian in India, because of the climate, but that in England it is *absolutely necessary* to eat fish to keep up the heat." So it was when our correspondent came to England, knowing nothing of the Vegetarian Society, and the work of Vegetarians in England, he had great difficulties in maintaining the purity of his life, and when he fell ill and was told "you must either take flesh or die," he replied with the staunch conviction of a truth : "I will die then." But instead of doing so, he is among the living, and will be able when he returns to India next summer a full-fledged barrister, to bring English and Indian Vegetarianism into closer union, and, we hope, add an Indian society to the braod folds of the Federal Unnion banner. 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**. 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