Fifty Years of Food Reform

Fifty Years of Food Reform: A History of the Vegetarian Movement in England is an 1898 book by Charles W. Forward, published by The Ideal Publishing Union and the Vegetarian Society. Based on a series of articles Forward published in The Vegetarian Review in 1897, it surveys vegetarian ideas from classical antiquity through the Romantic and Victorian eras, and traces the British vegetarian movement from the founding of the Vegetarian Society in 1847 to the end of 1897, with brief discussion of related activity in the United States and Germany. The book includes over 200 illustrations, including portraits and photographs of people, places, and events associated with the movement. Later bibliographers and historians have described it as a key source for subsequent accounts of the British vegetarian movement and as one of the best sources of early photographs of the movement and its participants.