{"id":8080,"date":"2021-11-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistoryrevealed\/?post_type=purple_issue&p=8080"},"modified":"2022-01-07T14:08:28","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T13:08:28","slug":"when-was-the-term-vegetarian-coined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistoryrevealed\/2021\/11\/23\/when-was-the-term-vegetarian-coined\/","title":{"rendered":"When was the term \u2018vegetarian\u2019 coined?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Q&A<\/span><\/h1>\n\n

When was the term \u2018vegetarian\u2019 coined?<\/h2>\n\n
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SHORT ANSWER<\/span><\/h5>\n\n

Until the mid-19th century, non-meat <\/strong>eaters were named after Pythagoras<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

LONG ANSWER<\/span><\/h5>\n\n

The Vegetarian Society <\/span>Kent, in 1847. at may not seem like a momentous landmark \u2013 seeing as people all over the world had been going meat-free since antiquity \u2013 but it may have been a name-changer for the veggie-only crowd. at society is commonly cited as giving root to the term \u2018vegetarian\u2019. Before then, those who didn\u2019t eat meat were usually referred to their diets as \u2018Pythagorean\u2019 after the ancient Greek philosopher, Pythagoras. Now best known for his triangle theorem taught in mathematics, he enjoyed a long reputation, perhaps erroneously, for adhering to a strict vegetarian diet.<\/p>\n\n

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