Three Rivers Vegan Society

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The word vegan was originally derived from "vegetarian" in 1944 when Elsie Shrigley and Donald Watson, frustrated that the term "vegetarianism" had come to include the eating of dairy products, founded the Vegan Society. They combined the first three and last two letters of vegetarian to form "vegan," which they saw as "the beginning and end of vegetarian."

Nutrition

American Dietetic Association's paper on Vegetarianism:
http://www.eatright.org/cps/rde/xchg/ada/hs.xsl/advocacy_933_ENU_HTML.htm

Vegetarian Resource Group's index on nutrition articles: http://www.vrg.org/nutrition/index.htm