The Vegetarian Magazine

The Vegetarian Magazine
The Vegetarian Magazine, 1905
CategoriesDiet and Lifestyle
Founded1900
Final issue1934
CompanyThe Vegetarian Company
CountryUSA
Based inChicago, Idaho
LanguageEnglish

The Vegetarian Magazine was an American magazine dedicated to vegetarianism that was published from 1900 to 1934 and was the official organ of several organizations including the Vegetarian Society of America. During the early 20th-century the magazine was also known for its support of women's suffrage.[1][2] The magazine advertised itself as standing for "a cleaner body, a healthier mentality and a higher morality".[3]

History

In 1896, the Chicago Vegetarian Society published the Chicago Vegetarian magazine.[4] In 1900, it merged with the Vegetarian Society of America's Food, Home and Garden magazine to form The Vegetarian Magazine.[4]

The magazine had many name changes.[5] It was known as The Vegetarian and Our Fellow Creatures (1901-1903), The Vegetarian Magazine (1903-1925) published by The Vegetarian Company in Chicago, The Vegetarian Magazine and Fruitarian (1925-1926), The Vegetarian and Fruitarian (1926-1927), Vegetarian Magazine and Fruitarian (1920-1934).[4] The magazine was put on hold from May 1913 to January 1919.[6]

The magazine was the official organ of the Chicago Vegetarian Society (1896-1899), Vegetarian Society of America (1900-1925) and the National Vegetarian Society (1926-1934).

The Vegetarian Company

The Vegetarian Company in Chicago published the magazine up until 1919 and featured advertisements for vegetarian restaurants.[7] In 1909, elected officers of the company were president Harlan Page Albert, vice-presidents George J. Drews and Walter E. Elfrink and secretary Jean Roberts Albert.[8] The company sold peanut butter, vegetarian soap, Ko Nut (a butter made from cocoa nut oil) and Kunghphy a substitute for coffee.[9] In 1911, the company reported a magazine circulation of 16,000.[10]

National Vegetarian Society

The magazine was published by Jean Roberts Albert of the National Vegetarian Society in Idaho from 1920.[6] Albert was also its editor who walked miles to her job and worked on the magazine in evenings to pay for its printing.[6] She was an early vegan as she did not consume dairy or egg products.[11] The National Vegetarian Society's officers were president L. J. C. Daniels, vice-president George Starr White and secretary Jean Roberts Albert.[12][13] The board of directors included Otto Carque, William Howard Hay and Philip G. Peabody.[13] Albert died in 1937 from sun stroke.[14]

Women's suffrage

Up until the 20th-century the magazine rarely mentioned Women's suffrage.[15] However, by 1910 it was advertising itself as a magazine for women and a "promulgator of Woman suffrage".[1]

Legacy

The Kansas Historical Society has a large collection of magazine volumes.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b "A Woman's Magazine By A Woman, For Women". The General Federation Bulletin. 7 (9): 30. 1910.
  2. ^ Armstrong, David (1991). The Great American Medicine Show: Being an Illustrated History of Hucksters, Healers, Health Evangelists, and Heroes from Plymouth Rock to the Present. Prentice Hall. p. 65. ISBN 978-0133640274.
  3. ^ "Become A Vegetarian". The Animals' Defender. 7 (2): 2. 1902.
  4. ^ a b c d Shurtleff, William; Aoyagi, Akiko (2022). History of Vegetarianism and Veganism Worldwide (1430 BCE to 1969). Soyinfo Center. p. 511. ISBN 978-1948436731.
  5. ^ Puskar-Pasewicz, Margaret (2010). Cultural Encyclopedia of Vegetarianism. Greenwood. p. 180. ISBN 978-0313375569.
  6. ^ a b c Shurtleff, William; Aoyagi, Akiko (2022). History of Vegetarianism and Veganism Worldwide (1430 BCE to 1969). Soyinfo Center. p. 649. ISBN 978-1948436731.
  7. ^ Malooley, Jake (2018). "Chicago's Forgotten Vegetarian Past—and the Woman Who Wants Us to Remember". Bon Appétit. Archived from the original on January 11, 2025.
  8. ^ "Annual Stockholder's Meeting". The Vegetarian Magazine. 13 (1): 19. 1909.
  9. ^ Shurtleff, William (2015). Origin and Early History of Peanut Butter (1884-2015). Soyinfo Center. p. 198. ISBN 978-1928914723.
  10. ^ Nelson Chesman & Co.'s Newspaper Rate Book. Nelson Chesman & Company. 1912. p. 53.
  11. ^ Leneman, Leah (1999). "One Step Before". The Vegan. 1: 24–25.
  12. ^ Hartmann, William C. (1927). Who's Who in Occultism, New Thought, Psychism and Spiritualism. The Occult Press. p. 53.
  13. ^ a b Shurtleff, William (2021). History of the Health Foods Movement Worldwide (1875-2021). Soyinfo Center. p. 169. ISBN 978-1948436458.
  14. ^ "Jean Roberts Albert". The Starry Cross. 45: 26.
  15. ^ Shprintzen, Adam D. (2013). The Vegetarian Crusade: The Rise of an American Reform Movement, 1817-1921. University of North Carolina Press. p. 180. ISBN 978-1469608914.