Efore 1824 vegetarians were refered to as What?!


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Efore 1824 vegetarians were refered to as What?


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According to this article, they were called Pythagoreans after the famous Greek mathematician, Pythagoras.

"The Greek mathematician Pythagoras was a vegetarian - vegetarians were called Pythagoreans up until the 1800's."

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As far as I know, people were called ( and called themselves) vegetarians, as early as 1800.

**The wife of Mr Joseph Brotherton wrote the first cookery book devoted to vegetarian recipes. This was published in 1812. The first vegetarian hospital was established in Ramsgate in 1846 with Mr and Mrs William Horsell, both prominent vegetarians in charge of it.**




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