The 39th IVU World Vegetarian Congress will be held in Indonesia this October: 1-6 Oct in Jakarta with an optional three days, 7-9 Oct, in Bali.

The Vegetarian Society of Bolivia is offering a scholarship to come to Bolivia to take part in leadership training for the promotion of vegetarianism in Latin America. For the application and more information, please click on the link.

Hungry to read more about vegetarianism? The IVU website is the place for you with more than 33,215 files in 1,686 folders.

As always, thanks to VegSource.com for making all this possible, and, we’re happy to have more, as the vegetarian movement grows!

Livestock should be taxed to reduce the contribution made by their flatulence to greenhouse gas emissions, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation said in a report that will give anti-livestock campaigners fresh ammunition.
Read the entire article from ‘The Financial Times’

IVU met Ataur Rahman Miton at the Asia for Animals Conference 2010 in Singapore. He is the founder of the Vegetarian Club of Bangladesh. Miton’s main work is as Country Director for Hunger Free World

The following interview is reprinted, in slightly abridged form, from EVANA (European Vegetarian and Animal News Alliance)

Peter Deriemaeker, Dirk Aerenhouts, Marcel Hebbelinck^, and Peter Clarys of the Universiteit Brussel have produced the paper summarised below.

Veg voices were booming our message at the Copenhagen Climate Change conference. Here’s just an example, Marly Winkler, president of The Vegetarian Society of Brazil, in a video made in Copenhagen and seen on the website of ‘The Guardian’ newspaper: Also, on the same webpage are videos by such noted vegetarians at Dr RK Pachauri and Dr Vandana Shiva.

PETA’s video ‘Meet Your Meat’ is a well-known tool of veg activists with its graphic description of the horrors of factory farming. Now, PETA has sort of an update of ‘Meet Your Meat’, titled ‘Glass Walls’ and narrated by Paul McCartney, a long-time veg who has recently been promoting Meat Free Mondays.

The title ‘Glass Walls’ is from a McCartney quote, “If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian”. Glass Walls extends Meat Your Meat buy adding such topics as fishes and the environment. View and download Glass Wall (also available in 3D), Meet Your Meat and other videos.

Vegan Outreach has been promoting vegetarianism since the 1990s. Their strategy centres on distributing a range of short booklets to people on university campuses. Here, courtesy of VegNews is an interview with the organisation’s founders.