World Vegetarian Congress - Edinburgh, Scotland, Summer 2002 - Derek Antrobus
'Food for all our futures'
Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland
July 8-14, 2002
The Vegetarian Society
of the United Kingdom
Derek
Antrobus
Monday
- Plenary session, 4.30pm - 6.15pm :
Vegetarianism : neither Phoenix nor Fad
Tuesday - 10.00am - 11.00am : Vegetarianism
- a philosophy of diet or philosophy of life?
Derek Antrobus was born in Salford in 1954 and attended local schools
before working as a journalist on newspapers in the city between 1973
and 1984.
Between 1984 and 1990 he studied at Manchester University, Bolton Institute of Higher Education and Salford University.
He currently lectures
in social science with the Open University as well as studying with the
OU.
Since 1979 he has been a member of Salford City Council and is currently
in charge of the Council's finances, information systems, administration
and customer services.
In 1997 he published A Guiltless Feast - a book which charts the early history of the modern vegetarian movement and its links with Salford.
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