European Vegetarian Union

EUROPEAN VEGETARIAN UNION - NEWSLETTER OCTOBER 2006

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

The European Vegetarian Union is distributing information about the vegetarian way of life in regular intervals. This mail was addressed to you because we assume that these topics are of interest to you.
In case you want to be informed about a wide range of vegetarian issues also in future, please subscribe at the bottom of the page.

Dear friends,

The 2007 topic of the EVU Talks, organized by the European Vegetarian Union, will be
'The veggie answer to world hunger'

Only recently, on 7 September 2006, Dr Jacques Diouf, Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), admitted that "Reducing hunger and extreme poverty is a prerequisite for achieving the international community's Millennium Development Goals. We stand very little chance of achieving the rest of the goals - environment, education, child mortality, maternal health, gender equality, HIV/AIDS - unless the first MDG is achieved."

Unfortunately no international body or national government has so far shown any interest in researching the potential of vegetarianism in alleviating global hunger, stopping and possibly reversing the destruction of the environment and contributing to a better, cleaner and more compassionate world in general.

The European Vegetarian Union wants to talk about these officially forgotten facts and invites all interested people to join the EVU Talks 2007 and to contribute to the formulation of the press release to be sent out after the event. We gladly accept inputs, remarks and comments and at this moment can still accommodate speakers who want to share their opinion about the topic.


When: 27 April - 1 May 2007
Where:Vienna/Austria
Sport Inn/Sport- und Seminarzentrum im Prater
(Leopoldsstadt/City Center)
Rustenschacherallee 3-5
A-1020 Vienna
Tel.: +43 1 720 84 91, Fax +43 1 720 16 91
Mobil: +43 650 720 84 89
Email: ksv@ksv-sportzentrum.info
Website:www.ksv-sportzentrum.info/fr-sportinn.htm

Further details can be found here:
EVU Talks 2007

UN Secretary-General Kofi A. Annan: "We will have time to reach the Millennium Development Goals - worldwide and in most, or even all, individual countries - but only if we break with business as usual."

A good start to 'break with business as usual' would be to stop ignoring the many benefits of vegetarianism.


Invitation to the AGM (held during the EVU Talks 2007).
When:Saturday, 28 April 2007, 1030h.
More information: AGM 2007


Best regards
Renato Pichler
President
European Vegetarian Union
www.euroveg.eu

If you want to receive the monthly EVU Newsletter also in future, please subscribe under

http://www.euroveg.eu/lists/mailing/insert.php?

 

© European Vegetarian Union - Contact form