--- title: "From The Vegetarian (London) January 28, 1893 - IVU - International Vegetarian Union" description: "From The Vegetarian (London) January 28, 1893: : Vegetarian Annual Meetings Monday Jan 23rd may be considered a red letter day in the annals of Vegetarianism, as the comined Annual Meetings of the Vegetarian Federal Union and the London Vegetarian Society took place at the Memorial Hall on that" url: "https://ivu.org/international-vegetarian-union/resources/interviews/2919-history-vfu-meeting9.html" date: "2026-11-06T00:09:21+00:00" language: "en-GB" --- # From The Vegetarian (London) January 28, 1893 ![From The Vegetarian (London) January 28, 1893](https://ivu.org/images/legacy/history/banners/history-vfu-meeting9.png)*From The Vegetarian (London) January 28, 1893:* Vegetarian Annual Meetings Monday Jan 23rd may be considered a red letter day in the annals of Vegetarianism, as the comined Annual Meetings of the Vegetarian Federal Union and the London Vegetarian Society took place at the Memorial Hall on that day. The Meeting of the Vegetarian Federal Union was well attended by delegates from the following Societies :- Brighton (Mr. Slatter), Bolton (Mr. Forward), Croydon (Mr. Field), Exeter (Mr. Doremus), London (Mr. Clifford, Mr. Field, Mr. Mottram, Mrs, McDouall), Northern Heights (Mr. Matthews), Portsmouth (Mr. Prior), Sheffield, The Vegetarian Society (Mr. Knight), West Ham (Mr. Boden and Mr. Mansell), Woolwich (Mr. T.A. Hanson). Mr. A. F. Hills was in the Chair. Some small alterations in the rules of theFederal Union, having been made they were finally confirmed and adopted. The Officers elected for the year were Mr. A. F. Hills President, Mr. Oldfield Treasurer and Mr. Doremus Hon. Secretary. Reports were received as to the arangements that had been made for a stall for display of literature at Chicago Exhibition and the excursion of Vegetarians to take part in the Vegetarian Congress to be held there in the beginning of June. The following items recommended by the Executive Committee as a Political Programme for the Vegetarian Federal Union were ordered to be sent round to the affiliated Societies for consideration. 1. Traffic in live cattle by land and sea should be stringently regulated, with the view of preparing the way for its total abolition. 2. Private slaughter-houses should be abolished, and public abbatoirs under due supervision be substituted as a temporary expedient for their total suppression. 3. As the abuse of strong drink is an integral part of the food question and seeing the the present abnormal facilities for the sale of alcohol are injurious to the morals and physique of the people it is desirable that they should be reduced. 4. That a system of state aided municipal technical education be established with special reference to the question of fruit, vegetable and flower cultivation, as the most practical remedy for the present agricultural depression. *\[the reports continued with the meeting of the LVS and the evening entertainment\].* 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. - Hits: 1576 ## Schema ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://ivu.org/history-of-ivu.html?view=article&id=2919:history-vfu-meeting9&catid=49","url":"https://ivu.org/history-of-ivu.html?view=article&id=2919:history-vfu-meeting9&catid=49","name":"From The Vegetarian (London) January 28, 1893","inLanguage":"en","isPartOf":[{"@id":"https://ivu.org/history-of-ivu.html#archive"},{"@id":"https://ivu.org/history-of-ivu.html?view=article&id=2808:history-timeline-vfu&catid=76"}],"publisher":{"@id":"https://ivu.org/#organization"},"description":"From The Vegetarian (London) January 28, 1893: Vegetarian Annual Meetings Monday Jan 23rd may be considered a red letter day in the annals of Vegetarianism, as the comined Annual Meetings of the…","about":{"@id":"https://ivu.org/#/schema/organization/vegetarian-federal-union"}}]} ``` ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://ivu.org" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "IVU", "item": "https://ivu.org/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Resources", "item": "https://ivu.org/international-vegetarian-union/resources.html" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Interviews", "item": "https://ivu.org/international-vegetarian-union/resources/interviews.html" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "name": "History of the Vegetarian Societies", "item": "https://ivu.org/international-vegetarian-union/resources/interviews.html" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 6, "name": "history", "item": "https://ivu.org/international-vegetarian-union/resources/interviews.html" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 7, "name": "vfu", "item": "https://ivu.org/international-vegetarian-union/resources/interviews.html" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 8, "name": "From The Vegetarian (London) January 28, 1893", "item": "https://ivu.org/international-vegetarian-union/resources/interviews/2919-history-vfu-meeting9.html" } ] } ``` ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Article", "mainEntityOfPage": { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://ivu.org/international-vegetarian-union/resources/interviews/2919-history-vfu-meeting9.html" }, "headline": "From The Vegetarian (London) January 28, 1893", "description": "From The Vegetarian (London) January 28, 1893: : Vegetarian Annual Meetings Monday Jan 23rd may be considered a red letter day in the annals of Vegetarianism, as the comined Annual Meetings of the Vegetarian Federal Union and the London Vegetarian Society took place at the Memorial Hall on that", "publisher": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "International Vegetarian Union", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://ivu.org/images/logos/logo-ivu-tranparent-background.png" } }, "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Alex Fernandes", "url": "https://ivu.org/international-council.html" }, "datePublished": "2026-10-15T23:59:29+00:00", "dateCreated": "2026-05-29T02:09:41+00:00", "dateModified": "2026-10-08T00:54:09+00:00" } ```