Talk:North American Vegetarian Society

Hall of Fame

Thanks to @Trimton: there is a very useful chart of the Hall of Fame members with Wikipedia articles. It'd be nice to add the non-pagers, and maybe this would encourage new articles. Only one I could add to the chart while doing justice to describing what they're known for (I've been pretty much out of the game since the mid-90s, although played around with something in the early 2000s, then added somewhat to formulating w.'s Vegetarian template and a few other encyclopedic odds and ends) would be Paul Obis, the founder of Vegetarian Times, and will add him to the chart. Here are the others, in chronological order per Trimton's chart:

• George Eisman, RD (1993) - helped mainstream, professionalize, and credential the practice of plant-based nutrition by founding Vegedine, while led to Vegetarian Nutrition Practice of American Dietetic Association (ADA)
• Muriel (Collura) Golde (1999) - organized (with Freya Dinshah the food at NAVS vegetarian conferences; wrote first LOW-COST all-vegan recipe cookbooklet (150 easy-to-reproduce vegan recipes).
• Patricia Lambert (2001) - long-time NAVS Board member and Cape Cod-based vegan organizer and entrepreneur; sold vegan merchandise
• Charles Stahler and Debra Wasserman (2003) - founders of Jewish Vegetarians group, local Baltimore vegetarians, and Vegetarian Resource Group in Baltimore MD, which did professional outreach to individuals, food professionals, and food businesses, and produced books and several regular periodicals
• Brian and Sharon Graff (2004) - organizers and paid staff of NAVS, producers of Summerfest
• Brenda Davis, RD (2007) - vegan dietitians, conference speaker, and author or co-author of several books (for laity) on vegan (or vegetarian) nutrition
• Joe Connelly and Colleen Holland (2009) - one-time couple, founders of popular vegetarian periodical VegNews (starting in 2000)
• James LaVeck and Jenny Stein (2012) - couple and co-founders of Tribe of Heart, producers of the award-winning documentaries The Witness and Peaceable Kingdom: The Journey Home, "an award-winning, life-changing documentary about the emotional lives of animals, and the moral struggles and triumphs of farmers." They led (for a time) the abolitionist theme that 'There is no such thing as humane meat' with the organization "The Humane Myth" (which argues eloquently through film and speakers presumed that 'meat' that is not 'humane plant-based meat' can never be humane because it kills animals for their flesh and body parts, however much 'welfarism' regulates and reorganizes 'meat production' (see 'animal welfarism'). A dialectical synthesis would be 'humane plant-based meat.'
• Rae Sikora (2013) - vegan activist speaker who married at Summerfest and acceded into leadership of VegFund
• John Pierre] (2014) - vegan trainer to Hollywood stars, including Emily Deschanel. "John Pierre is a nutrition and fitness consultant who has devoted over 30 years to improving the lives of others through his expertise in plant-based living."
• Hans Diehl, DrHSc, MPH, FACN (2015) - Seventh Day Adventist vegan author, lecturer, TV producer, clinical professor of Preventive Medicine at Loma Linda University and on the Board of Advisors of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. (See Lifestyle medicine, much of which has been pre-saged for a century or more by various medical subspecialties, including Social medicine.)
• Chef Mark Reinfeld (2017) - "Award-winning chef and authority on plant-based cuisine, Chef Mark is the founding chef of the [https://veganfusionculinaryacademy.com Vegan Fusion Culinary Academy", recently in charge of vegan food service at NAVS Vegan Summerfest.
• Chef AJ (2018) - 'Abbie Jaye' - (this could be harder because her BIOGRAPHICAL info is much harder to find on Internet) - vegan food author focusing on practical weight-loss strategies around plant-based vegan diets, "host of 'Chef AJ Live' on YouTube and Healthy Living with Chef AJ on Foody TV, as well as a Food Addiction & Weight Loss Expert" "Chef AJ has been devoted to a plant-exclusive diet for over 43 years. ... Chef AJ was the Executive Pastry Chef at Santé Restaurant in Los Angeles where she was famous for her sugar, oil, salt and gluten free desserts which use the fruit, the whole fruit and nothing but the whole fruit." born March 22, 1960 - 43 years vegan - 'a plant-exclusive diet' Reportedly lives in Palm Springs, California, USA

Does this Hall have a presence or plaques somewhere? I'd think the induction dinners would include some pretty good eating. Randy Kryn (talk) 02:48, 12 October 2021 (UTC)

I have participated in several Awards and Awardee dinners (most often through my work at Harvard). Awardees usually give an Awards lecture (a named lecture) and receive a plaque - and often slides are shown of the awardee, the awardee's life, and the awardee's work (specifically the notable work that is relevant to the award). In the Vegetarian Hall of Fame, I believe that a plaque is awarded to a surprise inductee attending and presenting at the Annual NAVS Vegan Summerfest. Several times I have previously posted the entire list on the Internet, but also on the WikiProject page (look). NAVS hosts that list on their NAVS home page. MaynardClark (talk) 17:11, 12 October 2021 (UTC)

MaynardClark may know inductee details. Randy Kryn (talk) 15:13, 12 October 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for the shout out :) I just wasn't sure if listing people w/o a page is OK as per WP list policies and guidelines? ‎⠀Trimton⠀‎‎ 16:58, 12 October 2021 (UTC)

Nice work and thanks to MaynardClark for filling in the individual's details above, which gives all that's needed to include the missing inductees on the chart. HiTrimton, yes, since the chart is of hof inductees the non-articled should join the articled (not as red links though). That may even encourage an editor or six to write up new pages for some of the Wikipedia-missing individuals. Randy Kryn (talk) 11:45, 13 October 2021 (UTC)

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