Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> Vegans narrowly missed being called “benevoresâ€
> The term vegan was coined in November 1944, when a group of
> non-dairy vegetarians got together to discuss non-dairy vegetarian
> diets and lifestyles. This group – which grew into the Vegan
> Society in the UK – toyed with the names "dairyban", "vitan" and
> "benevore", before settling on vegan, which contains the first
> three and last two letters of vegetarian.
And they've been preaching ever since.