--- title: "Vegetarian News - News from Switzerland - IVU - International Vegetarian Union" description: "Vegetarian News - News from Switzerland: News from Switzerland from EVU News, Issue 1, 1996 Furious farmers: \"Remove the exhibition!\" It was accorded with the owner of a health food store and chemist shop to show the exhibition 'Vegetarianism, health, animal protection, environment, ethics," url: "https://ivu.org/history-of-ivu.html?view=article&id=5591:news-evu-news961-switzer2&catid=232" date: "2026-11-06T00:11:17+00:00" language: "en-GB" --- # Vegetarian News - News from Switzerland **News from Switzerland** **from EVU News, Issue 1, 1996** --- ### Furious farmers: "Remove the exhibition!" It was accorded with the owner of a health food store and chemist shop to show the exhibition *'Vegetarianism, health, animal protection, environment, ethics, prejudices, famous vegetarians'* - which has been shown already at the EVU Congress in Bratislava and at the Congress day in Lindau (Germany) - in the entrance hall of the shopping centre in my home town, Widnau, at the beginning of March. ![[image: posterwalls]](https://ivu.org/images/legacy/history/news/evu/news961/hardtwww.jpg) The three posterwalls (pictured right) were exposed at the beginning of the week and should have stayed there until Saturday afternoon. A lot of people stopped, read the posters, went into the shop to ask for more information and leaflets. All went well and the chemist was content. Friday night I got a fax in which he asked me to remove the exposition at once because he feared for his shop to be destroyed by furious farmers. When I went to the mall some hours later, everything was calm again and nothing was destroyed, but the chemist asked me to take the poster-walls away. I think we are on the right way: perhaps for the first time in history meat-eaters are taking us seriously and are on the defensive. Sigrid De Leo --- ### Ten Minutes For a Strong Meal **100% Burger - 100% Vegetable** Coop, one of the biggest super-market chains in Switzerland, has launched a vegan product: Burger Vegetal. "The juicy and delicious Burger vegetal needs only 10 minutes, fry without fat, accompany with salad and you have a strong, wholefood meal. The tasty Burgers made from cereals and vegetables are a reserve of strength and energy, for they supply carbohydrates as well as fibres for a good digestion. Exclusively at COOP in the Meat Department." Three types of Burgers are available: Burger Vegetal Curry, Broccoli, Nature. I wrote to 'Migros' about their vegetarian product 'Cornatur' (see EVU News 3/4 95), which is also only to be found in the meat department, saying that it is unreasonable for a vegetarian to enter the meat department. I asked whether the products could not be offered in the cheese-milk department. The answer was that the intention is to give meat-eaters an alternative! I hope that every day more and more meat-eaters benefit from the vegetarian products. A Seventh Day Adventist priest answered once, when asked why he recommended the vegetarian diet, but did not say a word about the ethical problems of killing animals: *"The more people eat plant food, the more their eyes will be opened and they will understand the ethical reasons all by themselves"* Sigrid De Leo A note on this archive. The history section of this website is drawn from a body of legacy content originally compiled by John Davis, former manager of the International Vegetarian Union. 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