IVU was founded in Dresden, Germany, in 1908 which is not the most obvious location that we might think of today, so this is how it happened.

Some of those going to the 41^st IVU World Vegfest in Malaysia, 2013, will have family and friends in Australia, and it’s very easy to get there from Kuala Lumpur, so you might like to go on down and see them afterwards. There are also a lot of veg events there in late October, or maybe you just want to see some of this great country.

While we were in Los Angeles recently, Hazel and I were privileged to stay at the home of our friends Zel and Reuben Allen. Zel has been writing great vegan cookbooks for many years, and between them they run the website ‘Vegetarians in Paradise’.

A few months back, the editor of Vegan Views magazine (a member of IVU) asked me if I’d like to do an interview about my blogs, and the e-book compilation of them: ‘World Veganism – past, present and future’.