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This is a list of vegetarian or vegan organizations. Vegetarian organizations are located in numerous locations and regions around the globe. Their main goal is to promote vegetarianism among the public and to support and link individuals and organizations that practice, promote or endorse vegetarianism.

The biggest vegetarian organizations are the International Vegetarian Union (IVU) and Vegan World Alliance (VWA), which act as a connecting umbrella organization.

Name (English / local (abbreviation)) | Founded | Region served | Notes

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American Vegan Society (AVS) | 1960 |  United States |
Christian Vegetarian Association (CVA) | 1999 |  World | Founded in the United States
Dutch Society for Veganism / Nederlandse Vereniging voor Veganisme (NVV)[1] | 1978[1] |  Netherlands | Previously known as Veganistenkring and Vereniging Veganisten Organisatie
Earthsave | 1988 |  United States
Canada |
European Vegetarian Union (EVU) | 1988 |  Europe | Founded in the Netherlands, currently based in Austria
French Vegetarian Society / Sociéte végétarienne de France (FVS) | 1882 |  France | Founded in Paris, dissolved in 1921.
Hare Krishna Food for Life | 1974 |  World | Founded in India, currently based in Slovenia
International Vegetarian Union (IVU) | 1908 |  World | Founded in Germany, currently based in the UK
Jewish Veg | 1975 |  North America | Previously known as Jewish Vegetarians of North America
North American Vegetarian Society (NAVS) | 1974 |  North America |
Peepal Farm | 2014 |  India |
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) | 1985 |  United States |
ProVeg Germany / ProVeg Deutschland[2] | 1892 |  Germany | Founded as Vegetarierbund Deutschland (VEBU), renamed in 2017 when joining ProVeg International[2]
ProVeg Netherlands / ProVeg Nederland[3] | 2011 |  Netherlands | Founded as Viva Las Vega's (VLV), renamed in 2018 when joining ProVeg International[4]
ProVeg International[2] | 2017 |  World | Based in Berlin, serves as umbrella of all ProVeg organisations.[2]
Swissveg[5] | 1993[6] |  Switzerland | Known as Schweizerische Vereinigung für Vegetarismus until 2014[6]
The Vegan Society | 1944 |  World | Founded and based in the UK
Tibetan Volunteers for Animals (TVA) | 2000 |  China
India |
Toronto Vegetarian Association (TVA) | 1945 |  Canada |
Vegan Awareness Foundation | 1995 |  United States | Also known as Vegan Action
Vegan Outreach | 1993 |  United States |
Vegan Prisoners Support Group (VPSG) | 1994 |  United Kingdom |
Vegetarian Society | 1847 |  United Kingdom |
Vegetarian Society (Singapore) (VSS) | 1999 |  Singapore |
Viva! Health | 1994 |  United Kingdom |
World Esperantist Vegetarian Association / Tutmonda Esperantista Vegetarana Asocio (TEVA) | 1908 |  World | Founded in Germany

## Campaigns and events[edit]

* Meat-free day
* Meatless Monday
* Vegetarian week
* Veggie Pride
* World Vegan Day
* World Vegetarian Day

## See also[edit]

* List of vegetarian and vegan companies
* List of vegetarian festivals (including vegan festivals)
* List of fictional vegetarian characters

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b Rob Biersma (4 May 1996). "Vlees als snoepje". NRC Handelsblad. Archived from the original on 11 March 2016. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
2. ^ a b c d Andreas Wassermann (7 December 2018). "Proveg Deutschland: Die Geschäfte des Vegetarierbunds". Der Spiegel (in German). Archived from the original on 16 August 2021. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
3. ^ Sanne Schelfaut (16 May 2019). "Actie tegen ban op namen vleesvervangers: 'Slavink net zo misleidend als kipstuckjes'". Algemeen Dagblad. Archived from the original on 16 June 2020. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
4. ^ "Viva Las Vega's wordt ProVeg Nederland". ProVeg Nederland. 7 November 2017. Retrieved 5 January 2018.[permanent dead link]
5. ^ Nadja Rohner (21 June 2016). "Foodfestival: Damit punktet die Veganmania – auch bei Fleischessern". Aargauer Zeitung (in German). Archived from the original on 14 June 2020. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
6. ^ a b "Milestones in the history of Swissveg". Swissveg. 23 July 2020. Archived from the original on 27 October 2020. Retrieved 24 October 2020.

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Veganism and vegetarianism

Perspectives|

| Veganism|

* Animal-free agriculture
* Black veganism
* Fruitarianism
* History
* Raw veganism
* Straight edge
* Hardline
* Nutrition
* Vegan organic agriculture
* Vegan school meal
* Vegan studies

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Vegetarianism|

* Economic vegetarianism
* Environmental vegetarianism
* History
* Orthopathy
* Lacto vegetarianism
* Lacto-ovo vegetarianism
* Ovo vegetarianism
* Cuisine
* Vegetarian Diet Pyramid
* Ecofeminism
* Nutrition
* By country

Lists|

* Vegetarians
* Vegans
* Fictional characters
* Vegetarian festivals
* Vegetarian organizations
* Vegetarian restaurants
* List of vegan media

Ethics|

| Secular|

* Animal rights
* Animal welfare
* Carnism
* Deep ecology
* Environmental vegetarianism
* Ethics of eating meat
* Meat paradox
* Nonviolence
* Replaceability argument
* Sentientism
* Speciesism
* Tirukkuṟaḷ

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Religious|

* Buddhism
* Christianity (Seventh-day Adventist Church)
* Hinduism
* Sattvic
* Ahimsa
* Islam
* Jainism
* Judaism
* Pythagoreanism
* Rastafari
* Sikhism
* Taoism

Food
and drink|

* Agave syrup
* Chicken fillet roll
* Coconut burger
* Coconut milk
* Fruits
* Grains
* cereals
* legumes
* Gelatin substitutes
* Agar
* Carrageenan
* Gulaman
* Konjac jelly
* Microbial cellulose
* Jambon
* Meat alternative
* List of meat substitutes
* Miso
* Mochi
* Mock duck
* Nutritional yeast
* Plant cream
* Plant milk
* Quinoa
* Quorn
* Seitan
* Soy yogurt
* Tempeh
* Tofu
* Tofurkey
* Cheese
* Vegetables
* Hot dog
* Vegetarian mark
* Sausage
* Sausage roll
* Beer
* Wine
* Veggie burger

Groups
and events|

| Vegan|

* American Vegan Society
* Beauty Without Cruelty
* Food Empowerment Project
* Go Vegan
* Nederlandse Vereniging voor Veganisme
* Our Hen House
* Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
* Plamil Foods
* Vegan Awareness Foundation
* Vegan flag
* Vegan Outreach
* Vegan Prisoners Support Group
* The Vegan Society
* Veganmania
* Veganuary
* Veganz
* World Vegan Day

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Vegetarian|

* Boston Vegetarian Society
* Christian Vegetarian Association
* European Vegetarian Union
* French Vegetarian Society
* Hare Krishna Food for Life
* International Vegetarian Union
* Jewish Veg
* Meat-free days
* Meatless Monday
* Friday Fast
* North American Vegetarian Society
* Order of the Golden Age
* ProVeg Deutschland
* ProVeg International
* ProVeg Nederland
* Swissveg
* Toronto Vegetarian Association
* Vegetarian Federal Union
* Vegetarian Society
* Vegetarian Society (Singapore)
* Veggie Pride
* Viva! Health
* World Esperantist Vegetarian Association
* World Vegetarian Day

Companies|

* List of vegetarian and vegan companies

Books,
reports,
journals|

* On Abstinence from Eating Animals (3rd century)
* An Essay on Abstinence from Animal Food, as a Moral Duty (1802)
* Vegetable Cookery (1812)
* A Vindication of Natural Diet (1813)
* Reasons for not Eating Animal Food (1814)
* Moral Inquiries on the Situation of Man and of Brutes (1824)
* Nature's Own Book (1835)
* Fruits and Farinacea (1845)
* The Pleasure Boat (1845)
* The Ethics of Diet (1883)
* What is Vegetarianism? (1886)
* Shelley's Vegetarianism (1891)
* Behind the Scenes in Slaughter-Houses (1892)
* Why I Am a Vegetarian (1895)
* Figs or Pigs? (1896)
* Thirty-nine Reasons Why I Am a Vegetarian (1903)
* The Meat Fetish (1904)
* The New Ethics (1907)
* A Fleshless Diet (1910)
* The Benefits of Vegetarianism (1927)
* Living the Good Life (1954)
* Ten Talents (1968)
* Diet for a Small Planet (1971)
* The Vegetarian Epicure (1972)
* Moosewood Collective Cookbooks (1973)
* The Farm Vegetarian Cookbook (1975)
* Laurel's Kitchen (1976)
* Moosewood Cookbook (1977)
* Fit for Life (1985)
* Diet for a New America (1987)
* The Sexual Politics of Meat (1990)
* Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone (1997)
* The China Study (2005)
* Skinny Bitch (2005)
* Livestock's Long Shadow (2006)
* The Bloodless Revolution (2006)
* Eating Animals (2009)
* Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows (2009)
* The Vegan Studies Project (2015)
* Animal (De)liberation (2016)
* The End of Animal Farming (2018)
* Vegetable Kingdom (2020)
* Making a Stand for Animals (2022)
* Meat Atlas (annual)

Films and shows|

* The Animals Film (1981)
* Diet for a New America (film) (1991)
* A Cow at My Table (1998)
* Meet Your Meat (2002)
* Post Punk Kitchen (2003–2005)
* Peaceable Kingdom (2004)
* Earthlings (2005)
* A Sacred Duty (2007)
* Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead (2010)
* Planeat (2010)
* Forks Over Knives (2011)
* Vegucated (2011)
* Live and Let Live (2013)
* Cowspiracy (2014)
* PlantPure Nation (2015)
* What the Health (2017)
* Carnage (2017)
* Dominion (2018)
* Eating You Alive (2018)
* The Game Changers (2018)
* You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment (2024)

Magazines|

* Naked Food
* Satya
* Vegetarian Times
* VegNews
* The Animals' Agenda

Academics,
authors,
physicians|

| Contemporary|

* Elisa Aaltola
* Carol J. Adams
* Suzanne M. Babich
* Martin Balluch
* Neal D. Barnard
* Geoffrey Barstow
* David Benatar
* Steven Best
* Yves Bonnardel
* Will Bonsall
* Will Bulsiewicz
* Jodey Castricano
* T. Colin Campbell
* Brenda Davis
* Garth Davis
* Jan Deckers
* Alan Desmond
* Daniel Dombrowski
* Mylan Engel
* Gidon Eshel
* Caldwell Esselstyn
* Michael Allen Fox
* Gary L. Francione
* Joel Fuhrman
* Kristi Funk
* Greta Gaard
* Valéry Giroux
* Michael Greger
* A. Breeze Harper
* Oscar Horta
* Michael Huemer
* Melanie Joy
* Joel Kahn
* Avery Yale Kamila
* Michael Klaper
* Aph Ko
* Renan Larue
* Thomas Lepeltier
* Andrew Linzey
* Clair Linzey
* Howard Lyman
* Reed Mangels
* John A. McDougall
* James E. McWilliams
* Vesanto Melina
* Gemma Newman
* David Nibert
* Jack Norris
* David Olivier
* Dean Ornish
* David Pearce
* Emelia Quinn
* Tejal Rao
* Tom Regan
* Richard H. Schwartz
* Jérôme Segal
* Peter Singer
* William O. Stephens
* David Sztybel
* Sunaura Taylor
* Richard Twine
* Kim A. Williams
* Corey Lee Wrenn
* Laura Wright
* Tzachi Zamir

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Historical|

* Phyllis B. Acosta
* William Alcott
* Bertrand P. Allinson
* Thomas Allinson
* Charles R. Attwood
* William Axon
* Eduard Baltzer
* Horace A. Barrows
* Sidney H. Beard
* George Bedborough
* Ernest Bell
* Robert Bell
* Ragnar Berg
* Rynn Berry
* Maximilian Bircher-Benner
* George Black
* Ernest Bonnejoy
* Lucius Duncan Bulkley
* J. L. Buttner
* Paul Carton
* Job Caudwell
* George Cheyne
* Henry S. Clubb
* Antonio Cocchi
* Lenna F. Cooper
* Daniël de Clercq
* Charles W. Forward
* Mahatma Gandhi
* Narasinh Narayan Godbole
* Lewis Gompertz
* Jeremiah Hacker
* John Haddon
* Walter Hadwen
* Alexander Haig
* Edward Hare
* Philippe Hecquet
* Martin Luther Holbrook
* Isaac Jennings
* John Harvey Kellogg
* Norman Kerr
* Daniel H. Kress
* William Lambe
* W. R. C. Latson
* Elmer Lee
* Susan M. Levin
* Al-Ma'arri
* Alice G. Marsh
* Elmer McCollum
* William Metcalfe
* Eli Peck Miller
* Harry Willis Miller
* J. Howard Moore
* Reuben D. Mussey
* Helen Nearing
* Scott Nearing
* Francis William Newman
* R. E. O'Callaghan
* Josiah Oldfield
* Cyril V. Pink
* Rod Preece
* James Rachels
* Ulma Doyle Register
* Rollo Russell
* Henry Stephens Salt
* James Simpson
* Alan Stoddard
* Russell Thacher Trall
* Valluvar
* Ellen G. White
* Severin Wielobycki
* Howard Williams
* Frank Wokes
* Sidney Trist
* Jon Wynne-Tyson
* Kathleen Keen Zolber

Chefs and
cookbook authors|

* Nava Atlas
* Mayim Bialik
* Gypsy Boots
* BOSH!
* Edward Espe Brown
* Tabitha Brown (actress)
* Suzy Amis Cameron
* Hannah Che
* Pinky Cole
* Chloe Coscarelli
* Yamuna Devi
* Sue Donaldson
* Crescent Dragonwagon
* Rose Elliot
* Rip Esselstyn
* Carol Lee Flinders
* Dick Gregory
* Richa Hingle
* Madhur Jaffrey
* Mollie Katzen
* Frances Moore Lappé
* Deborah Madison
* Linda McCartney
* Mary McCartney
* Tracye McQuirter
* Joanne Lee Molinaro
* Moosewood Collective
* Isa Chandra Moskowitz
* Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
* Gaz Oakley
* Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
* Mathew Pritchard
* Satchidananda Saraswati
* Derek Sarno
* Miyoko Schinner
* Alicia Silverstone
* Hannah Sunderani
* Bryant Terry
* Anna Thomas
* Haile Thomas
* Lauren Toyota
* Jeeca Uy
* Umberto Veronesi
* Nisha Vora
* Alan Wakeman

Restaurants|

* Ben & Esther's Vegan Jewish Deli
* Cinnaholic
* Crossroads Kitchen
* Greens Restaurant
* Little Pine (restaurant)
* Slutty Vegan
* Souley Vegan
* Veggie Grill

Related|

* Vegetarian and vegan symbolism
* List of vegan media
* Juice fasting
* Vegetarian and vegan dog diet
* Vegaphobia
* Plant-based diet
* Sustainable diet
* Low-carbon
* Planetary health
* Flexitarianism
* Pescetarianism
* Pollotarianism

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