{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"HappyCow","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog","author_name":"John Edmundson","author_url":"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/author\/johnnysensible\/","title":"Answers About the Vegan Lifestyle in New York - HappyCow","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"qBw4sFlFNy\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/answers-about-the-vegan-lifestyle-in-new-york\/\">Answers About the Vegan Lifestyle in New York<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.happycow.net\/blog\/answers-about-the-vegan-lifestyle-in-new-york\/embed\/#?secret=qBw4sFlFNy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Answers About the Vegan Lifestyle in New York&#8221; &#8212; HappyCow\" data-secret=\"qBw4sFlFNy\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\n\/*! This file is auto-generated *\/\n!function(d,l){\"use strict\";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&\"undefined\"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!\/[^a-zA-Z0-9]\/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),c=new RegExp(\"^https?:$\",\"i\"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display=\"none\";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute(\"style\"),\"height\"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):\"link\"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute(\"src\")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener(\"message\",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll(\"iframe.wp-embedded-content\"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute(\"data-secret\"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+=\"#?secret=\"+t,e.setAttribute(\"data-secret\",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:\"ready\",secret:t},\"*\")},!1)))}(window,document);\n\/* ]]> *\/\n<\/script>\n","description":"Rynn Berry is in the New York Post today \/ tomorrow &#8211; http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/06\/answers-about-the-vegan-lifestyle-in-new-york\/ See the related \/ linked pages also. Excerpt &#8211; Can you give us a summary of the history of veganism within the general context of the history of the vegetarian movement? Thank you. \u2014 Posted by Marc L. In Leicester England in 1944, Donald Watson and his wife Dorothy coined the term vegan, which they formed from the first three and the last two letters of \u201cvegetarian.\u201d With this new term, the Watsons wanted to encompass the meaning of \u201cvegetarian\u201d imparted by the Pythagoreans and Buddhists, i.e. one who for reasons of compassion, abstains from consuming all foods and other products of animal origin. It took time for the word to catch on in the United State, but now it has become almost a competing term with vegetarian. To help win recognition for the vegan concept in America, Mr. H. Jay Dinshah started the American Vegan Society in Malaga, N.J., in 1960. Dinshah, of Parsee descent, infused veganism with the Jain and Buddhist doctrine of ahimsa-(non violence to all living creatures). In fact, Ahimsa was the name of the journal (latterly The American Vegan) that Mr. Dinshah [&hellip;]","thumbnail_url":"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/blogs\/cityroom\/q.gif"}