--- title: "Visitors from Europe - IVU - International Vegetarian Union" description: "Visitors from Europe: Pictures and Comments from the Cybercafe Ausra Maksimoviene Lithuania Francesca De Leo and Michele Milo Switzerland It's my 8 th IVU Congress. I'm still quite active in the vegetarian and environmental fields in spite of all my deficiencies." url: "https://ivu.org/international-vegetarian-union/resources/interviews/4225-congress-wvc96-europeans2.html" date: "2026-11-06T00:18:09+00:00" language: "en-GB" --- # Visitors from Europe **Visitors from Europe** Pictures and Comments from the Cybercafe ![[Ausra Maksimoviene]](https://ivu.org/images/legacy/history/congress/wvc96/ausra_maksimoviene.jpg) | **Ausra Maksimoviene** Lithuania **Francesca De Leo and Michele Milo** Switzerland | ![[Francesca De Leo and Michele Milo]](https://ivu.org/images/legacy/history/congress/wvc96/francesca_de_leo_and_michele_milo.jpg)![[Ingeborg Natz]](https://ivu.org/images/legacy/history/congress/wvc96/ingeborg_natz.jpg)It's my 8th IVU Congress. I'm still quite active in the vegetarian and environmental fields in spite of all my deficiencies. I'm a vegetarian for almost 50 years. I'm still helping people discover the benefits of organic gardening, vegetarianism and how to help the environment. **Ingeborg Natz** Berlin, Germany ![[Irmgund Bauschke]](https://ivu.org/images/legacy/history/congress/wvc96/irmgund_bauschke.jpg)Gruss Gott. Wie geht es Ihnen oder Euch. Haben wir im Pittsburgh PA, USA, viel Interessantes gehoert. Das Essen war hervorragend! Viele Vegetarier waren hier treffen sich reagelnmaessig auf Kongressen. God's greetings. How are you? We have heard many interesting things in Pittsburgh. The food was outstanding! There were many vegetarians who met regularly during the World Vegetarian Congress. **Irmgund Bauschke** Frankfurt-Main, Germany (Deutschland) ![[Karin Gunnarsson]](https://ivu.org/images/legacy/history/congress/wvc96/karin_gunnarsson.jpg) | Of course i think everyone should be vegan or at least vegetarian. But then, if everyone were, events like this would be superfluous and that would be a shame... **Karin Gunnarsson** Stockholm, Sweden **Lana Kolodya** Ukraine | ![[Lana Kolodya]](https://ivu.org/images/legacy/history/congress/wvc96/lana_kolodya.jpg)![[Matthias Manske]](https://ivu.org/images/legacy/history/congress/wvc96/matthias_manske.jpg)Took part in the International Vegetarian Summerfest 1996. Don't eat your animal friends, you can decide - they not. Estuve en la Fiesta Internacional de Vegetranios en los Estados Unidos no come tus animales amigos, puedes decidir - no los animales. Habe am Internationalen Vegetarischen Sommerfest in Pennsylvania teil-genommen, wer Tiere liebt isst sie nicht, Du kannst Dich entscheiden - sie nicht, mehr Infos: Deutscher Tierschutzbund, Baumschulallee, 53115 Bonn, oder persoenlich: 18. August, Tierheim Ladeburg, Tag der offenen Tuer (Nahe Bernau, im Nordosten Berlins, 1o - 18.00 Uhr) **Matthias Manske** Schoenow, village near Berlin, Germany ![[Michael Spencer]](https://ivu.org/images/legacy/history/congress/wvc96/michael_spencer.jpg)It's between Manchester and Leeds. I knew I should have had a shave this morning, but hey ho. Meeting lots of cool people and eating way too much, but the pools great so I should at least tone up a tad! If you want drop me a line feel free, as they say on the answer phones "I'll get back to you". Speak, sort of, to you later. By the way did you know that most apple juice is cleared with gelatine. **Michael Spencer** Halifax, UK ![[Norman Oliver Bauschke]](https://ivu.org/images/legacy/history/congress/wvc96/norman_oliver_bauschke.jpg)Leider bin ich kein 'echter' vegetarier, aber was nicht ist, kann ja noch werden. So sagen wir in deutschland. Es ist fuer mich eine grosse erfahrung gewesen, den welt-vegetarier-kongress zu besuchen. Ich nehme einen ganzen koffer voll mit erinnerungen nach hause. Es war interessant eine menge leute kennenzulernen, die diese art zu leben bevorzugen, um damit einen wesentlichen beitrag zum erhalt unserer umwelt zu leisten. Sollte ich in zukunft mitglied des internet werden, waere ich erfreut, wenn mir jemand per e-mail schreibt. **Norman Oliver Bauschke** Hessen Lauterbach-Maar, Germany ![[Tommaso De Leo]](https://ivu.org/images/legacy/history/congress/wvc96/tommaso_de_leo.jpg) | **Tommaso De Leo** Switzerland - More Europeans on the [IVU Council](https://ivu.org/international-vegetarian-union/resources/interviews/4234-congress-wvc96-ivu-council.html) 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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