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The Boston Vegetarian Society (BVS) began in 1986. In 1998,〔 it was incorporated in Massachusetts as an educational non-profit. In July 1998,〔〔 it was granted 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status by the IRS. The BVS provides info on events and related organizations, hosts the annual Boston Vegetarian Food Festival (BVFF), holds cooking classes, and promotes vegetarianism through mass transit advertising, outreach at fairs and festivals, and monthly free educational seminars which since their beginning have attracted some of the best-informed and most popular leaders and voices in the vegetarian and vegan movement.〔 BVS "seeks to make a better world for people, animals, and the earth through advancing a healthful vegetarian diet and a compassionate ethic." BVS provides education, encouragement, and community support for vegetarians and for anyone wishing to learn more about a healthy, environmentally friendly, and humane way of life. According to several member's reports and earlier versions of the BVS website: * BVS is an all-volunteer organization with membership open to anyone who supports its purposes. * BVS events are open to members and non-members. * When it was first incorporated, its voting membership was open to vegetarians and non-voting membership was open to non-vegetarians. However, around 2009, the BVS Board voted to confine voting membership to Board members so that it could maintain its IVU membership without presenting a two-tiered membership to supporters. IVU member societies are required to vest all executive (decision-making) authority exclusively in vegetarians, defined as lacto-ovo (or stricter) vegetarians. Verification is difficult in organizations with two-tiered membership based upon self-reported behaviour. * All Food at BVS is vegan and alcohol-free, according to the earliest documents (bylaws and articles of incorporation) of the Boston Vegetarian Society. Boston Vegetarian Society and its programs are run by an all-volunteer Board. Members do not have voting rights. ==Boston Vegetarian Food Festival (BVFF)== File:Inflatable Cow.jpg File:600 425501432-2014BVFF Exhibit Area.jpeg Since 1996, the Boston Vegetarian Society has annually hosted the (Boston Vegetarian Food Festival ) (BVFF) in October or November. It was first held on May 5, 1996,〔("About Dr. Attwood" (c. 1996) notes that (the late) Dr. Charles Attwood had spoken at the Boston Vegetarian Food Festival 'recently' - it was 1996 - the first year of BVFF. )〕〔(VRG-NEWS: The Vegetarian Resource Group Newsletter, John L. Cunningham ( Editor), Volume 7, Issue 4, August 2003 )〕 at the Howard W. Johnson Athletics Center at MIT〔(The Growing World of Veg Festivals. ''VegNews'', Brooke Still, August 17, 2010 )〕〔(1997 BVFF (2nd BVFF) Program of Speakers, hosted on MIT website )〕 because MIT graduate students affiliated with the MIT Vegetarian Support Group (VSG) ( renamed MIT Vegetarian Group) provided a substantial proportion of the initial organizing effort. In addition, in October of that year, they held a World Vegetarian Day celebration outdoors on the Boston Common. The second BVFF, in October 1997, was held at Bunker Hill Community College. This combined as one combined event their indoor vegetarian food festival and the sense of the World Vegetarian Day event, since the combined event would be perpetually held around October or November. Since 1998,〔(MIT-hosted archival page for 2000 BVFF says that 1999 BVFF was held at RLTAC nd that the 2000 BVFF is the 4th BVFF )〕〔(1998 BVFF - 2nd BVFF - List of Sponsors, such a long list that it could not be held in the Johnson Ice Rink at MIT, though it could have been held in Bunker Hill Community College (1997), where the 1998 BVFF - 2nd BVFF - was spread out over four or five of its buildings - on a Saturday )〕 it has been held at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center in the Roxbury Crossing section of Boston, across the street from Roxbury Community College and the Mosque for the Praising of Allah of the Islamic Society of Boston. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Boston Vegetarian Society」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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