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There was a 185% increase in new vegan products between 2012 and 2016 in the U.K. [112] In 2017, the United States School Nutrition Association found 14% of school districts across the country were serving vegan school meals compared to 11.5% of schools offering vegan lunch in 2016.
The IVU's 1975 World Vegetarian Congress in Orono, Maine caused a significant impact on to the country's vegetarian movement. [157] Henry Stephens Salt [158] (1851–1939) and George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) were famous vegetarian activists. [159]
Veganism involves following a vegan diet, which is a diet that includes no animal products of any kind. It can extend to ethical veganism which avoids or boycotts all products and activities whose production or undertaking is perceived to exploit animals, such as leather, silk, fur, wool, and cosmetics that have been tested on animals, as well as blood sports such as bullfighting and fox hunting.
Northeastern Ohio was originally inhabited by nomadic paleo-Indians who hunted animals like deer, wild turkeys, and bears and gathered plants like nuts and berries. Between the year 1000 and 1600 CE, the indigenous people in the area increasingly lived in villages where they grew plants like corn, squash, and beans.
Dinshah founded the American Vegan Society early in 1960, and later that year (August) married the English-born Freya Smith. [15] Freya, whose parents were active in The Vegan Society (of Great Britain), contributed to the early growth of the American Vegan Society and is the president of the American Vegan Society today.
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Vegan and vegetarian products like soy milk, soy yogurts, rice milk and tofu are widely available in major retailers, and sold across the country. According to HappyCow, Lisbon is the 6th city in the world for number of vegan restaurants per capita, more than any other European city. [138]