More information is now available on the 2010 IVU World Vegetarian Congress - to be held in Indonesia, in Jakarta, the country’s largest city and capital, from 1-6 October, and in Bali, the country’s most famous tourist destination from 7-9 October. 

In our October issue, we reported on the launch of a Meatless Monday campaign in Sao Paulo, Brazil, a metropolis of approximately 20 million people. Marly Winckler, head of the Vegetarian Society of Brazil and IVU Regional Coordinator for Latin America, kindly provided some additional information about the campaign.

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From the UK newspaper, The Telegraph: Lord Stern, author of the 2006 Stern Review on the cost of tackling global warming, predicts that eating meat could in the future become as socially unacceptable as drink driving.

International Raw Vegan Congress - 4-7 January, 2010, La Paz, Bolivia (website in Spanish). The Congress will be held in a rainforest location approximately two hours drive from La Paz.

T Colin Campbell, professor of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University and author of the best selling ‘China Study’, was recently among the guests on the CNN show ‘Larry King Live’. The topic was whether people should stop eating burgers. . .

‘Number of Animals Killed to Produce One Million Calories in Eight Food Categories’ is the latest visual available from ‘Animal Visuals’. The data are accompanied by a text explanation.

This is a five-page article from the New York Times by Jonathan Safran Foer -  part of a book titled ‘Eating Animals’ to be published this month

We have added two renowned dancers to the rich history collection available on the IVU website - Isadora Duncan and Nijinsky.

 

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