VegetarianMuseum.com

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Providence, Rhode Island

Contact: Karen Iacobbo

Press Release

For immediate release November 19, 2006

Thanksgiving exhibit

VegetarianMuseum.com, an online museum, has launched its first exhibit, “Attitudes Toward Turkeys at Thanksgiving in Turn of the Twentieth Century America.”

“This small but very revealing exhibit of Thanksgiving postcards of the early 1900s shines light onto the feelings and thoughts people of that era had regarding turkeys,” says Michael Iacobbo, who with Karen is author of Vegetarian America: A History (Praeger 2004). The Iacobbos founded the website and are journalists who study vegetarian culture and history.

“Our virtual museum exhibit shows how far we have come in 100 years or so in our relationship to the animal world,” says Karen Iacobbo. “For example, greeting card companies today are unlikely to produce a card depicting a turkey chased by a gleeful boy carrying an axe,” she says.

The Iacobbos established the online museum to honor advocates of vegetarianism of the past and to show that “vegetarian history is American history,” says Michael Iacobbo. The Iacobbo’s latest book is Vegetarians and Vegans In America Today (Praeger 2006). For their book, the authors interviewed at least one vegetarian from each of the fifty states, and more than 200 people.

The exhibit will be online until January 1 2007.