Welcome!  Information on this site will eventually move.  The Special Diets section has already moved to: http://www.spanglefish.com/SpecialDietsGuide/index.asp    FAIR TRADE, HEALTH, MEDICAL MATTERS, and TRANSPORT pages mainly comprise links put together for reference.  After the data has moved, I might add other subjects.  Please paste non-clickable links into your browser.  This is a free site, so any adverts are not in my control and I may not endorse them.   Barbara Jackson

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FOR GVS MEMBERS
GVS: indicates pages currently in use for members.
VEG: indicates pages of general interest to vegetarians.   

COVID 19 Coronavirus:  All our group events have been suspended from March 2020 until further notice.  Requests or offers of help, and other notices during the pandemic are on the GVS Members' Notices page.  

INFORMATION HERE FOR GVS MEMBERS
This site is providing temporary pages for GVS members, until GVS has its own web site.  To avoid confusion, please don't give this site's URL to others.  Later this site will probably be removed altogether.  If someone wants to join our mailing list, please ask them to e-mail me. Thank you!

USE OF THE WORD VEGETARIAN
The word vegetarian (or veg for short) is used on this site to mean all 4 categories of vegetarians (lacto-ovo-vegetarian, lacto-vegetarian, ovo-vegetarian, and vegan).  This is in accordance with the original definition by The Vegetarian Society of the UK (founded in 1847, the first vegetarian society in the world).  They defined a vegetarian as "someone who lives on a diet of grains, pulses, nuts, seeds, vegetables and fruits with, or without, the use of dairy products and eggs."  Nowadays, "lacto-ovo-vegetarian" is often abbreviated to vegetarian, especially in the UK.  But the word vegetarian, correctly used, is an umbrella term.  So saying or writing "vegetarian or vegan" doesn't strictly make sense.  "Veg*n" (meaning vegetarian or vegan) isn't used here, as it's not widely known and is easily confused with the word vegan.  Instead "veg(etari)an" is used.

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