Editing Veganism (section)

=== Spread to the United States ===
The first vegan society in the U.S. was founded in 1948 by [[Catherine Nimmo]] and Rubin Abramowitz in California, who distributed Watson's newsletter.<ref>Stepaniak 2000, [https://books.google.com/books?id=6Ia5eZIlgLUC&pg=PA6 6–7]; Linda Austin and Norm Hammond, ''Oceano'', Arcadia Publishing, 2010, [https://books.google.com/books?id=B51SjziDRGQC&pg=PA39 39].</ref><ref name="AVS50">{{Cite magazine|last=Dinshah|first=Freya|year=2010|title=American Vegan Society: 50 Years|url=http://www.americanvegan.org/AV1001.pdf|url-status=dead|magazine=American Vegan|series=2|publisher=[[American Vegan Society]]|location=Vineland, NJ|volume=10|issue=1 (Summer 2010)|page=31|issn=1536-3767|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722213651/http://www.americanvegan.org/AV1001.pdf#page=31|archive-date=22 July 2011|access-date=14 March 2018}}</ref> In 1960, [[H. Jay Dinshah]] founded the [[American Vegan Society]] (AVS), linking veganism to the concept of ''[[ahimsa]]'', "non-harming" in [[Sanskrit]].<ref name="AVS50" /><ref>Stepaniak 2000, [https://books.google.com/books?id=6Ia5eZIlgLUC&pg=PA6 6–7]; Preece 2008, [https://books.google.com/books?id=uMnubkF5HjAC&pg=PA323 323].</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.americanvegan.org/history.htm|title=History|publisher=American Vegan Society|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140827105211/http://www.americanvegan.org/history.htm|archive-date=27 August 2014|url-status=dead|access-date=14 March 2018}}</ref>