Bible Christian Church (vegetarian)

[1] To join the church, members had to sign a pledge that committed them to a vegetarian diet and abstention from alcohol.

Members of the church including Joseph Brotherton and James Simpson were involved in the founding of the Vegetarian Society in 1847.

[5] By 1932, unable to attract enough vegetarian members, the English Bible Christians merged into the Pendleton Unitarians.

[9] Bible Christians put great emphasis on independence of mind and freedom of belief, stating that they did not presume "to exercise any dominion over the faith or conscience of men."

[9] Cowherd is said to have stated: "..If God had meant us to eat meat, then it would have come to us in edible form 'as is the ripened fruit'"[3]