--- title: "Chiang Mai 1999: Franco Tedaldi - Delegate Introduction - IVU - International Vegetarian Union" description: "Chiang Mai 1999: Franco Tedaldi - Delegate Introduction: International Vegetarian Union (IVU) 33rd World Vegetarian Congress Chiang Mai, Thailand, January 4 - 10, 1999 'Vegetarianism is the Way' an unforgettable visual, cultural and gastronomic experience Ciao a tutti, This is a late message which introduces me to such a" url: "https://ivu.org/international-vegetarian-union/resources/interviews/3671-congress-thai99-profiles-franco.html" date: "2026-11-06T00:22:00+00:00" language: "en-GB" --- # Chiang Mai 1999: Franco Tedaldi - Delegate Introduction **International Vegetarian Union (IVU)** | ![IVU logo](https://ivu.org/images/legacy/history/members/pics/ivu-con4.gif) | | |---|---| | ![Congress Logo](https://ivu.org/images/legacy/history/congress/thai99/pics/logo99.gif) **33rd World Vegetarian Congress** Chiang Mai, Thailand, January 4 - 10, 1999 *'Vegetarianism is the Way'* an unforgettable visual, cultural and gastronomic experience Ciao a tutti, This is a late message which introduces me to such a great and healthy group. My name is Franco Tedaldi, and I was born in the January of 1957 in a wealthy region of Italy. Here a variety of industries have success, and fruit, grains and wine are some of the products making our happiness but... As you may know, 95% of the meat italian meat eaters eat comes from intensive farming. Well, the region where I belong is one of the places where this principal cause of animal suffering is most widespread. I always felt sympathy for animals, and I became a defender of animal rights in late eighties. I also had friends which had been practising for long natural food preparing. I liked most of what I could taste of it. Since when I began going to the university I use to eat in canteens. I've always been lucky finding a good variety of foods of good quality. Now I'm an electronic engineer, application software designer in a factory which produces equipments for quality control. I have lunch five times per week at the factory canteen, and guess what? I started eating vegetarian right there, in 1991. I started overnight. I had been to a demonstration against a farm where animals were breeded for vivisection. The same farm even sold tools for stabling them. At the congress of LAV (the League Anti-Vivisection) which immediately followed, I heard a girl explaining that she was a vegan and suffered for any exploitation of animals. I didn't use to regard as exploitation milking a cow, but I realized that at least it usually was. So I became immediately a vegetarian, but still I sometimes eat food prepared with eggs and milk. Ovo-lacto-vegetarian, by now. But I've learned how to prepare a vegan dinner for me and my friends. I still wear wool sweaters and trousers, which have been implicitly taught me to be part of a democratic and tender person. This image is going to change. I look forward to the day, soon to come, when cruelty free food and cloths will be available to everyone, and all intensive animal farming will be banned. Now I translate some IVU-EVU www pages and articles from English into Italian, and I'm supposed to be the IVU co-ordinator for italian translators. I'm a member of AVI and of Società Vegetariana, and I provide a small group of vegetarians in Forlì with information on animal rights and vegetarianism. I'm going to have a wonderful new year beginning, travelling toward the venue where I'll find you, on a Thai plane where I'll have my vegetarian meal. I wish us all a Merry Christmas, and a new year in which vegetarian issues be more successful than ever See you soon Franco 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. It represents his curation of historical material, and in places includes passages written by him directly. Over the years, the IVU website has migrated between several different hosting servers. In the course of these migrations, a number of PDF files were unfortunately lost, and **some links to PDF documents may no longer function**. 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