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Rynn Berry

January 01, 1970

Rynn Berry (January 31, 1945 – January 9, 2014) was an American author and scholar on vegetarianism and veganism,[1] as well as a pioneer in the animal rights and vegan movements.[2]

Rynn Berry
Rynn Berry at the 2012 World Vegetarian Congress in San Francisco
Born(1945-01-31)January 31, 1945
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
DiedJanuary 9, 2014(2014-01-09) (aged 68)
New York Methodist Hospital, New York City, New York, USA
OccupationAuthor, activist
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materUniversity of Pennsylvania, Columbia University
GenreHistory and biography, short plays
SubjectVegetarianism and veganism

Early life edit

Berry was born on January 31, 1945, in Honolulu, Hawaii, and grew up in Coconut Grove, Florida, where his mother and maternal siblings lived. He studied literature, archeology, and classics at the University of Pennsylvania, and ancient history and comparative religion at Columbia University.[3][4]

He became vegetarian as a teenager and vegan at the age of 21.[5] He became a rawfooder in 1994.[6]

Career edit

Berry taught comparative literature at Baruch College and later culinary history at New School for Social Research in New York City.[6] He was a scholar of vegetarian history, and wrote a number of books, plays, and other works on this subject.[7] Richard H. Schwartz, founder of Jewish Veg, called his fourth book, the 2004 work, Hitler: Neither Vegetarian Nor Animal Lover (with an introduction by Lantern Books's co-founder Martin Rowe) a "thoughtful and carefully documented book."[8] A frequent international lecturer,[9][10][11] Berry's books have been translated into many languages, and he was locally and internationally known in the vegan community.[12][13]

Berry also wrote the entry on the history of vegetarianism in America for the Oxford Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink (2004),[14] edited by Andrew Smith, and he was commissioned to write seven entries for The Oxford Companion to Food and Drink in America (2007).[15] He was also a playwright who contributed a number of short plays about 'famous vegetarians in history'.[16] He wrote a chapter on the history of the raw food movement for Becoming Raw: The Essential Guide to Raw Vegan Diets.[17]

He was also on the advisory boards of EarthSave,[18] the American Vegetarian Association, and historical advisor to the North American Vegetarian Society.[19] He was an honored member of the American Vegan Society Speakers Bureau, instructor at Victoria Moran's Main Street Academy.[20] Berry also contributed to the animal rights movement in Brazil, where he frequently lectured both in English (with a translator) and in Portuguese.[21]

Famous Vegetarians edit

One of Berry's most notable works, Famous Vegetarians and Their Favorite Recipes: Lives and Lore from Buddha to the Beatles,[7] is a collection of biographical sketches of famous people who were vegetarians at some point in their lives. Each chapter also contains an illustration of each of the famous vegetarians profiled, followed by some of their favorite recipes. For the Leonardo da Vinci chapter, he translated for the first time into English recipes from De Honesta Voluptate by Bartolomeo Platina.[22] The first edition of the book was published in 1989 by Panjandrum Books.[23] In 1995, Pythagorean Publishers released a revised edition with three additional chapters covering Mahavira, Plato and Socrates, and Swami Prabhupada.[24] A review published in Vegetarian Times, considered Famous Vegetarians "scholarship at the end of a fork – and for writing it, he deserves an 'A'."[22] In Religious Vegetarianism: From Hesiod to the Dalai Lama, Kerry S. Walters and Lisa Portmess said that Berry's book is "a twentieth-century parallel" to Howard Williams's classic The Ethics of Diet.[25] In his book The Vegetarian Revolution, Giorgio Cerquetti recommended "everybody to read Rynn Berry's excellent book."[26]

Death and legacy edit

Berry lived alone in an apartment in Prospect Park. He was an enthusiastic amateur runner, despite having asthma.[27]

He was found collapsed and unconscious in jogging clothes in Prospect Park in the Prospect Heights section of Brooklyn, New York, on December 31, 2013,[27] but not identified until January 7, 2014.[28] The only clues in his pockets were "keys and an asthma inhaler".[29] He never regained consciousness and died at 12:30 pm on January 9, 2014.[27]

Martin Rowe, author and co-founder of Lantern Books, commented on Berry's death:

"Rynn's impact was literally incalculable, given how many met him, bought his books, or talked with him at the Union Square green market over the many years. He was the epitome of the kind of unheralded grassroots activist without which any movement for change cannot grow, and he was a witty and erudite figure: the Dr. Johnson of the vegetarian movement. He would be missed greatly, even by those who never met him, but his work will live on."[30]

Author Chef Fran Costigan wrote that Berry was "a gentle soul whose life touched so many."[31]

His life was celebrated publicly and outdoors on March 30, 2014, for about thirty minutes, at the annual Veggie Pride Parade in New York City. On July 5, 2014, he was honored at the annual NAVS Vegetarian Summerfest in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in a plenary led by vegan activist and author Victoria Moran. In previous years, Berry had been on the staff of Vegetarian Summerfest as a scholar and speaker on veganism and world religions.[32]

“The Rynn Berry Jr. Papers” are housed in the North Carolina State University Libraries’ Special Collections and Research Center.[7]

Bibliography of published writings edit

  • The Vegetarians, Autumn Press, 1979. ISBN 0-394-73633-8
  • The New Vegetarians (updated edition of his previous book, with William Shurtleff interview instead of Marty Feldman's), Chestnut Ridge, New York, Townhouse Press, 1988 ISBN 0-940653-17-6; Pythagorean Publishers, 1993. ISBN 0-9626169-0-7
  • Famous Vegetarians and Their Favorite Recipes: Lives and Lore from Buddha to the Beatles. Pythagorean Publishers. 1995. ISBN 0962616915.
  • Food for the Gods: Vegetarianism & the World's Religions, Pythagorean Publishers, 1998. ISBN 0-9626169-2-3
  • Hitler: Neither Vegetarian Nor Animal Lover (with an introduction by Martin Rowe) Pythagorean Publishers, 2004. ISBN 0-9626169-6-6
  • "Veganism," article in The Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink, Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. 604–605.
  • Becoming Raw: The Essential Guide to Raw Vegan Diets (with Brenda Davis & Vesanto Melina), Book Publishing Company, 2010. ISBN 1-57067-238-5
  • The Vegan Guide to New York City (with Chris A. Suzuki & Barry Litsky), Ethical Living, 2013 (20th edition). ISBN 0-9788132-8-6[33]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Heritage Radio Network: Pythagoras' Other Theorem: A Short History of Vegetarianism". Huffingtonpost.com. 2013-04-29. Retrieved 2014-04-09.
  2. ^ "Rynn Berry, Pioneer in Vegetarianism and Veganism, Has Died". The Daily Meal. 2014-01-10. Retrieved 2018-02-05.
  3. ^ "RYNN BERRY JR's Obituary on New York Times". New York Times. 2014-01-11. Retrieved 2018-02-05.
  4. ^ "Rynn Berry". vegsource.com.
  5. ^ Jon Wynne-Tyson, The Extended Circle: A Dictionary of Humane Thought, Centaur Press, 2009, p. 18.
  6. ^ a b It's Easier To Be Green, the New York Times, 2001-04-08
  7. ^ a b c Abraham, Laura (2018-03-09). "Discovering Treasures While Processing the Rynn Berry, Jr. Papers". North Carolina State University Libraries. Retrieved 2023-03-28.
  8. ^ "Judaism and Vegetarianism: Book Review, "Hitler: Neither Vegetarian Nor Animal Lover"". www.jewishveg.org.
  9. ^ "World Vegetarian Congress 2000 - Rynn Berry". International Vegetarian Union. 2000-07-17. Retrieved 2014-04-09.
  10. ^ "World Vegetarian Congress - Edinburgh, Scotland, Summer 2002 - Rynn Berry". Ivu.org. Retrieved 2014-04-09.
  11. ^ "Rynn Berry". Living-foods.com. Retrieved 2014-04-09.
  12. ^ . DNAinfo New York. Archived from the original on April 7, 2014.
  13. ^ "Go Vegan Radio - Archives - Rynn Berry". Go Vegan Radio with Bob Linden. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
  14. ^ Smith, Andrew F., ed. (2012). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America (Second ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acref/9780199734962.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-973496-2.
  15. ^ . Americanvegan.org. Archived from the original on 2008-10-10. Retrieved 2023-03-31.
  16. ^ "Palestra de Rynn Berry apresenta os motivos que levaram Da Vinci a adotar o vegetarianismo - ANDA - Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais". ANDA - Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais. January 23, 2010.
  17. ^ "Guide to Plant-Based Nutrition: Recommended Reading". One Green PlanetOne Green Planet. 21 May 2017. Retrieved 2018-02-05.
  18. ^ "Welcome to the Triangle Vegetarian Society". www.trianglevegsociety.org.
  19. ^ "NAVS | North American Vegetarian Society". Navs-online.org. Retrieved 2014-04-09.
  20. ^ Zukowski, John A. (2014-01-09). "Ten Questions with Victoria Moran: Food Ethics, Spirituality, the Religion of Pop Culture and More". Spiritual Pop Culture. Retrieved 2018-02-05.
  21. ^ Gentil e generoso, Rynn Berry contribuiu muito para o movimento animalista no Brasil 2014-01-30 at the Wayback Machine
  22. ^ a b Vegetarian Times, Fev 1991, p. 76.
  23. ^ William Shurtleff and Akiko Aoyagi, History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in South Asia / Indian Subcontinent (1656–2010), Soyinfo Center, 2010, p. 828.
  24. ^ Shurtleff and Aoyagi, Op. cit., p. 865.
  25. ^ Kerry S. Walters and Lisa Portmess, Religious Vegetarianism: From Hesiod to the Dalai Lama, State University of New York Press, 2001, p. 194.
  26. ^ Giorgio Cerquetti, The Vegetarian Revolution: Commentary and Cookbook, Torchlight Publishing, 1997, (ISBN 1-887089-00-4) p. viii.
  27. ^ a b c Yee, Vivian. The New York Times, January 9, 2013, "Jogger Found Unconscious in a Park Dies, but Not Before Being Identified".
  28. ^ . DNAinfo New York. Archived from the original on March 26, 2014.
  29. ^ Braunstein, Mark Mathew, 2014 (Spring), "Tribute to Rynn Berry", Vegetarian Voice
  30. ^ Edmundson, John (2014-01-09). "Rynn Berry left us a few hours ago - The Veggie Blog". The Veggie Blog. Retrieved 2018-02-05.
  31. ^ Bakija, Mary (2014-01-10). "Rynn Berry, Jogger Who Collapsed In Prospect Park, Has Died". BKLYNER. Retrieved 2018-03-26.
  32. ^ Program for Veggie Pride Parade, March 30, 2014
  33. ^ QUEST.TV - NYC Vegetarian Food Festival 2013 - Rynn Berry discussing the Restaurant Guide: The Vegan Guide to New York City on YouTube

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Rynn Berry January 31 1945 January 9 2014 was an American author and scholar on vegetarianism and veganism 1 as well as a pioneer in the animal rights and vegan movements 2 Rynn BerryRynn Berry at the 2012 World Vegetarian Congress in San FranciscoBorn 1945 01 31 January 31 1945Honolulu Hawaii USADiedJanuary 9 2014 2014 01 09 aged 68 New York Methodist Hospital New York City New York USAOccupationAuthor activistCitizenshipUnited StatesAlma materUniversity of Pennsylvania Columbia UniversityGenreHistory and biography short playsSubjectVegetarianism and veganism Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2 1 Famous Vegetarians 3 Death and legacy 4 Bibliography of published writings 5 See also 6 References 7 External linksEarly life editBerry was born on January 31 1945 in Honolulu Hawaii and grew up in Coconut Grove Florida where his mother and maternal siblings lived He studied literature archeology and classics at the University of Pennsylvania and ancient history and comparative religion at Columbia University 3 4 He became vegetarian as a teenager and vegan at the age of 21 5 He became a rawfooder in 1994 6 Career editBerry taught comparative literature at Baruch College and later culinary history at New School for Social Research in New York City 6 He was a scholar of vegetarian history and wrote a number of books plays and other works on this subject 7 Richard H Schwartz founder of Jewish Veg called his fourth book the 2004 work Hitler Neither Vegetarian Nor Animal Lover with an introduction by Lantern Books s co founder Martin Rowe a thoughtful and carefully documented book 8 A frequent international lecturer 9 10 11 Berry s books have been translated into many languages and he was locally and internationally known in the vegan community 12 13 Berry also wrote the entry on the history of vegetarianism in America for the Oxford Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink 2004 14 edited by Andrew Smith and he was commissioned to write seven entries for The Oxford Companion to Food and Drink in America 2007 15 He was also a playwright who contributed a number of short plays about famous vegetarians in history 16 He wrote a chapter on the history of the raw food movement for Becoming Raw The Essential Guide to Raw Vegan Diets 17 He was also on the advisory boards of EarthSave 18 the American Vegetarian Association and historical advisor to the North American Vegetarian Society 19 He was an honored member of the American Vegan Society Speakers Bureau instructor at Victoria Moran s Main Street Academy 20 Berry also contributed to the animal rights movement in Brazil where he frequently lectured both in English with a translator and in Portuguese 21 Famous Vegetarians edit One of Berry s most notable works Famous Vegetarians and Their Favorite Recipes Lives and Lore from Buddha to the Beatles 7 is a collection of biographical sketches of famous people who were vegetarians at some point in their lives Each chapter also contains an illustration of each of the famous vegetarians profiled followed by some of their favorite recipes For the Leonardo da Vinci chapter he translated for the first time into English recipes from De Honesta Voluptate by Bartolomeo Platina 22 The first edition of the book was published in 1989 by Panjandrum Books 23 In 1995 Pythagorean Publishers released a revised edition with three additional chapters covering Mahavira Plato and Socrates and Swami Prabhupada 24 A review published in Vegetarian Times considered Famous Vegetarians scholarship at the end of a fork and for writing it he deserves an A 22 In Religious Vegetarianism From Hesiod to the Dalai Lama Kerry S Walters and Lisa Portmess said that Berry s book is a twentieth century parallel to Howard Williams s classic The Ethics of Diet 25 In his book The Vegetarian Revolution Giorgio Cerquetti recommended everybody to read Rynn Berry s excellent book 26 Death and legacy editBerry lived alone in an apartment in Prospect Park He was an enthusiastic amateur runner despite having asthma 27 He was found collapsed and unconscious in jogging clothes in Prospect Park in the Prospect Heights section of Brooklyn New York on December 31 2013 27 but not identified until January 7 2014 28 The only clues in his pockets were keys and an asthma inhaler 29 He never regained consciousness and died at 12 30 pm on January 9 2014 27 Martin Rowe author and co founder of Lantern Books commented on Berry s death Rynn s impact was literally incalculable given how many met him bought his books or talked with him at the Union Square green market over the many years He was the epitome of the kind of unheralded grassroots activist without which any movement for change cannot grow and he was a witty and erudite figure the Dr Johnson of the vegetarian movement He would be missed greatly even by those who never met him but his work will live on 30 Author Chef Fran Costigan wrote that Berry was a gentle soul whose life touched so many 31 His life was celebrated publicly and outdoors on March 30 2014 for about thirty minutes at the annual Veggie Pride Parade in New York City On July 5 2014 he was honored at the annual NAVS Vegetarian Summerfest in Johnstown Pennsylvania in a plenary led by vegan activist and author Victoria Moran In previous years Berry had been on the staff of Vegetarian Summerfest as a scholar and speaker on veganism and world religions 32 The Rynn Berry Jr Papers are housed in the North Carolina State University Libraries Special Collections and Research Center 7 Bibliography of published writings editThe Vegetarians Autumn Press 1979 ISBN 0 394 73633 8 The New Vegetarians updated edition of his previous book with William Shurtleff interview instead of Marty Feldman s Chestnut Ridge New York Townhouse Press 1988 ISBN 0 940653 17 6 Pythagorean Publishers 1993 ISBN 0 9626169 0 7 Famous Vegetarians and Their Favorite Recipes Lives and Lore from Buddha to the Beatles Pythagorean Publishers 1995 ISBN 0962616915 Food for the Gods Vegetarianism amp the World s Religions Pythagorean Publishers 1998 ISBN 0 9626169 2 3 Hitler Neither Vegetarian Nor Animal Lover with an introduction by Martin Rowe Pythagorean Publishers 2004 ISBN 0 9626169 6 6 Veganism article in The Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink Oxford University Press 2007 pp 604 605 Becoming Raw The Essential Guide to Raw Vegan Diets with Brenda Davis amp Vesanto Melina Book Publishing Company 2010 ISBN 1 57067 238 5 The Vegan Guide to New York City with Chris A Suzuki amp Barry Litsky Ethical Living 2013 20th edition ISBN 0 9788132 8 6 33 See also editList of vegetariansReferences edit Heritage Radio Network Pythagoras Other Theorem A Short History of Vegetarianism Huffingtonpost com 2013 04 29 Retrieved 2014 04 09 Rynn Berry Pioneer in Vegetarianism and Veganism Has Died The Daily Meal 2014 01 10 Retrieved 2018 02 05 RYNN BERRY JR s Obituary on New York Times New York Times 2014 01 11 Retrieved 2018 02 05 Rynn Berry vegsource com Jon Wynne Tyson The Extended Circle A Dictionary of Humane Thought Centaur Press 2009 p 18 a b It s Easier To Be Green the New York Times 2001 04 08 a b c Abraham Laura 2018 03 09 Discovering Treasures While Processing the Rynn Berry Jr Papers North Carolina State University Libraries Retrieved 2023 03 28 Judaism and Vegetarianism Book Review Hitler Neither Vegetarian Nor Animal Lover www jewishveg org World Vegetarian Congress 2000 Rynn Berry International Vegetarian Union 2000 07 17 Retrieved 2014 04 09 World Vegetarian Congress Edinburgh Scotland Summer 2002 Rynn Berry Ivu org Retrieved 2014 04 09 Rynn Berry Living foods com Retrieved 2014 04 09 Pals of Runner Who Collapsed in Prospect Park Seek His Good Samaritans DNAinfo New York Archived from the original on April 7 2014 Go Vegan Radio Archives Rynn Berry Go Vegan Radio with Bob Linden Retrieved 27 March 2018 Smith Andrew F ed 2012 The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America Second ed Oxford Oxford University Press doi 10 1093 acref 9780199734962 001 0001 ISBN 978 0 19 973496 2 Rynn Berry Americanvegan org Archived from the original on 2008 10 10 Retrieved 2023 03 31 Palestra de Rynn Berry apresenta os motivos que levaram Da Vinci a adotar o vegetarianismo ANDA Agencia de Noticias de Direitos Animais ANDA Agencia de Noticias de Direitos Animais January 23 2010 Guide to Plant Based Nutrition Recommended Reading One Green PlanetOne Green Planet 21 May 2017 Retrieved 2018 02 05 Welcome to the Triangle Vegetarian Society www trianglevegsociety org NAVS North American Vegetarian Society Navs online org Retrieved 2014 04 09 Zukowski John A 2014 01 09 Ten Questions with Victoria Moran Food Ethics Spirituality the Religion of Pop Culture and More Spiritual Pop Culture Retrieved 2018 02 05 Gentil e generoso Rynn Berry contribuiu muito para o movimento animalista no Brasil Archived 2014 01 30 at the Wayback Machine a b Vegetarian Times Fev 1991 p 76 William Shurtleff and Akiko Aoyagi History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in South Asia Indian Subcontinent 1656 2010 Soyinfo Center 2010 p 828 Shurtleff and Aoyagi Op cit p 865 Kerry S Walters and Lisa Portmess Religious Vegetarianism From Hesiod to the Dalai Lama State University of New York Press 2001 p 194 Giorgio Cerquetti The Vegetarian Revolution Commentary and Cookbook Torchlight Publishing 1997 ISBN 1 887089 00 4 p viii a b c Yee Vivian The New York Times January 9 2013 Jogger Found Unconscious in a Park Dies but Not Before Being Identified Mystery Prospect Park Jogger Identified as Vegan Author DNAinfo New York Archived from the original on March 26 2014 Braunstein Mark Mathew 2014 Spring Tribute to Rynn Berry Vegetarian Voice Edmundson John 2014 01 09 Rynn Berry left us a few hours ago The Veggie Blog The Veggie Blog Retrieved 2018 02 05 Bakija Mary 2014 01 10 Rynn Berry Jogger Who Collapsed In Prospect Park Has Died BKLYNER Retrieved 2018 03 26 Program for Veggie Pride Parade March 30 2014 QUEST TV NYC Vegetarian Food Festival 2013 Rynn Berry discussing the Restaurant Guide The Vegan Guide to New York City on YouTubeExternal links editGuide to the Rynn Berry Jr Papers 1896 2016 North Carolina State University Libraries Special Collections and Research Center nbsp Wikiquote has quotations related to Rynn Berry Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Rynn Berry amp oldid 1167453206, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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