Vegetarian Diary 2002-2003
Ireland’s 9th World Vegetarian Day
This year’s event will be held on
Sunday, 29 September 2002, from 12
– 5 in St. Andrew’s Resource Centre,
Pearse St., Dublin 2.
World Vegetarian Day is an exciting
annual day designed to celebrate
and promote vegetarianism. To celebrate
the day, Irish Vegetarians host
a World Vegetarian Day Fair. This festive
Fair has been hugely popular in
recent years (now in it’s ninth year),
attracting a wide variety of exhibitors
and sellers from the vegetarian food,
drinks, catering and retail industries,
as well as the important presence of
animal rights and environmental
groups and charities. Well over 1,000
visitors come along each year. The
event features:
- Talks and video viewings
- Many Information stands on vegetarianism & other related issues
- Veggie Restaurants serving a variety of vegetarian & vegan foods
- Organic food market, with the Dublin Food Co-op *Crafts & Books
- Craft and Bead Work, Homeopathic Oils, Books *Raffles and entertainment throughout the day.
Check out www.vegetarian.ie
for updates.
2 October - World Farm Animals Day (WFAD):
World Farm Animals Day was
launched in 1983 to expose, memorialize,
and mitigate the suffering of
billions of innocent, sentient animals
in the world’s factory farms and
slaughterhouses. The date (October 2)
honors the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi,
foremost champion of humane
farming. It marks the one day a year
when every person is consciencebound
to do something to relieve the
agony of farmed animals. To participate
in WFAD, a group or individual
can have a vigil, memorial service,
vegetarian festival, march, picketing,
leafleting, information table, lecture,
exhibit, etc. In the past between 100
and 250 separate events per year were
held worldwide. We invite everyone
in the worldwide animal protection
community to participate in 2002.
more info: www.wfad.org.
World Vegan Day
On World Vegan Day, 1st November,
people around the world will
once again be celebrating the formation
of The Vegan Society almost 60
years ago and the compassionate lifestyle
it promotes. This year there will
be a whole week of celebrations as
The Vegan Society launches UK Vegan
Week. The week will start (as
British Summer Time ends), running
from Sunday 27th October to Sunday
3rd November, having been kicked
off at The Vegan Society’s AGM, on
Saturday 26th October. The theme for
this year is the wider availability of
vegan food that everyone can enjoy,
in restaurants, hotels, pubs, hospitals,
schools and cafes. The Vegan Society
will prove vegan food can provide a
healthy diet whilst at the same time
avoiding animal exploitation and the
wasteful use of the world’s resources.
For more information about The Vegan
Society or to get involved with
World Vegan Day and National Vegan
Week (U.K.) see the website
www.worldveganday.org. Please
check it out, sign on and keep in touch
at www.worldveganday.org
- Tel. 00 44 845 45 88244
Eurasian Vegetarian Society
First international fair-festival
”Vegetarian World”, Moscow,
Sokolniki Culture & Exhibition Centre
, MAY 27 –30, 2003 , Organisers:
-Sokolniki Culture & Exhibition Centre
and Eurasian Vegetarian Society
non-profit organisation.
Vegetarian World consolidates
public organisations’, business corporations’
and State authorities’ activities
aimed at improving physical and
psychological health, creating a
healthy environment, promoting a
healthy way of life, and a humane attitude
to nature and animals.
Vegetarian World promotes vegetarianism
as a high moral standard
based on violation aversion, mercy
and high spirituality. Vegetarian
World showcases a great variety of
food, cosmetics, medications, biosupplements
and household goods for
vegetarians.
Vegetarian World favours the development
of health and vegetarian
food production in Russia and other
countries and the protection of the
interests of food consumers.
Organisers’ objectives:
To assist the formation of public
and governmental policy aimed at
promoting a healthy way of life in
Russia in the XXI century.
To form an ideological and moral
approach to problems of vegetarianism
in Russia as part of the global
vegetarian movement.
To favour the development of business
co-operation of vegetarian food
manufacturers, trade companies and
suppliers of equipment and raw materials.
To support the development, production
and sale of vegetarian food.
To show the current state and the
trends of development of the vegetarian
sector of the food market.
Topics:
Technology and machinery
for raw material processing and production
of vegetarian foodstuffs: -
Environmentally appropriate cereals
- Natural food – non-processed,
canned and frozen foodstuffs (honey
and honey-based food, herbs, spices,
nuts, mushrooms, mineral water) -
Environmentally appropriate fruit,
vegetables and berries, juices, nectars,
wines, drink concentrates - Healthgiving
dairy foods - Health-giving
bakery and confectionary foods -
Soya foods (processing equipment
and technology) - Foods for diabetics
- Active dietary supplements - Medicinal
remedies and techniques
based on vegetarianism - Organisation
of vegetarian catering, services
and travel - Alternative (vegetarian)
cosmetics - Vegetarianism and animal
protection -Vegetarianism and ecology
- Vegetarianism and economics.
Target participants:
Manufacturers
of vegetarian, health and other high
quality ecologically appropriate foods
from Russia and abroad willing to
promote their products. Trade and
servicing companies involved in vegetarianism
(restaurants, cafés, bars,
hotels) searching partners and investors
for advancement in a new market.
Allied companies - manufacturers
using raw materials and machinery
and developers of technologies for
health and vegetarian food producers
who are interested in promoting their
products. State, public and profitmaking
organizations that seek to extend
their activities.
Programme includes:
A scientific
and practical conference “The Vegetarian
Movement in Russia and
Worldwide” (public and religious organisations
involved in vegetarianism
will take part) - Presentations, round
tables, seminars covering the vegetarian
movement, medicine and production
of vegetarian food – Lecture/ introduction
of the single mark for vegetarian
foods and services in Russia
-Assignment of the mark to exhibited
foods and services that meet all the
requirements - Reports from leaders
of international vegetarian associations
and other organisations - Competition-
tasting of vegetarian foods -
Competition for the best advertisement,
packaging and labelling of vegetarian
foods - Meetings with famous
vegetarians from Russia and abroad/
artists, sportsmen, people in public
life and statesmen - Show-programmes,
performances by vegetarian
sportsmen - Shows of alternative
cosmetics and artificial fur - Presentations
by vegetarian restaurants and
cafés - Presentations of scientific,
medical and special books on vegetarianism
- Excursions for participants
of the exhibition (Yasnaya
Polyana museum, L. Tolstoy museum,
travel on board the vegetarian
ship Moskova, visit to a vegetarian
restaurant).
Support:
Food Institute of the Russian
Academy of Medical Sciences,
Institute of Medical Biological Problems
Of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Institute of Baby Food of the
Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences,
Russian Diabetic Association,
International Social and Ecological
Union, Vegetarian societies and organisations,
Society for Animal Protection,
International Academy of
Natural Food and Biotechnology,
Vavilov Plant Cultivation Institute,
Institute of Quality, Safety and Ecological
Compatibility of Food and
Food Production, Social and religious
organisations involved in the vegetarian
movement, Vegetarian organisations,
medical centres and other institutions
from abroad.
E-mail:
oae@exposokol.ru,
factvideo@imail.ru,
evs-ru@bk.ru
Web-site:
www.vegworld.ru,
www.allexpo.ru,
www.veg.ru
Nikolai Kalanov (president “Eurasian
Vegetarian Society”) evs-ru@bk.ru
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