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38th IVU World Vegetarian Congress

Dresden, Germany

100 YEARS OF FOOD REVOLUTION
Sunday July 27 - Sunday August 3, 2008

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38th IVU World Vegetarian Congress in Dresden 2008

Programme (subject to change)


Tuesday, 29th July 2008


Main topic: Vegetarian Nutrition, Health and Sport



09:15

  • Prof. Dr. Peter Clarys, Belgium, Vegetarian Nutrition and Physical Performance Capacity (English) (Festsaal)

10:45

  • Brenda Davis + Vesanto Melina, Canada, Vegan Nutrition for Life – Big Blunders, Simple Solutions (English) (Festsaal)


14:00

  • Prof. Dr. Claus Leitzmann, Germany, Vegetarian Nutrition and Cancer Prevention (German) (Festsaal)

  • Paul Turner, USA, Foof for Life – the World's Largest Vegan Food Relief Organisation (English) (Neumarkt Room)

  • Elena Pridie, Romania, Focus on Children: Vegetarian from the Start, for a Healthy Life (English) (Altmarkt Room)

  • Dorrit Franze, Germany, Legal Tips and Tricks for Animal Rights Activists (German) (Bähr Room)

  • George Jacobs, Singapore, Howard Gardner and his Theory of Multiple Intelligences (English) (Brühl Room)


14:55

  • Prof. Dr. med. Bernd Krönig, Germany, The Influence of a Vegetarian Diet on Cardiovascular Disease (German) (Festsaal)

  • Rynn Berry, USA, Ethical Vegetarianism and Non-violence in the World's Religions (English) (Neumarkt Room)

  • Jan Stastny, Czech Republic, Historical Cartoons Portraying Vegetarians (English) (Altmarkt Room)

  • Sebastian Zoesch, Germany, Strategies and Reflections on Spreading the Vegetarian Message (German) (Bähr Room)

  • Dr. Erika Gartmann, Germany, Symptoms and Psychological Consequences of Meat Eating (German) (Brühl Room)


16:00

  • IVU General Meeting (Festsaal)

  • Siegfried Pater, Germany, Fast Food Destoys Life (German) (Neumarkt Room)

  • Tina-Luise Fischer, Germany, Rights to Personal Status and Dignity for Higher Mammals? (German) (Altmarkt Room)

  • Guido von Arx, Switzerland, Spiritual Vegetarianism (German) (Bähr Room)

  • Alexander Nabben, Germany, Milk is more than White Blood (German) (Brühl Room)

  • Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Karnowsky + Ulrich Rehberg, Germany, How your Will can Help (German) (Elbe Room)


16:55

  • IVU General Meeting continued (Festsaal)

  • Andreas Hänni/Stefan Gyoerke, Switzerland, Medical and Peak Physical Performance Aspects of a Vegan Diet (German) (Neumarkt Room)

  • Dipl.Oek-Troph. Dagmar Puhl Sadhvi Daya, Austria, Vegetarianism and Yoga (German/English) (Altmarkt Room)

  • Dr. Edmund Haferbeck, Germany, Animal Rights in the Conflict between Ecology, World Hunger and Climate Change (German) (Bähr Room)

  • Ingo F. Rittmeyer, Germany, Why does our Daily Bread make us Sick? (German) (Brühl Room)

  • Speaker's Corner, German (Elbe Room)


20:00

  • Easy line dances to join in (Festsaal)

  • Thomas Schönberger, Germany, Foundation Vegeterra (German) (Bähr Room)



                                                                                                                                                        








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