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IVU ONLINE NEWS - November 2004
You have just two months left to register for the Congress - book now! During the summer we have been adding more details of speakers/lecturers to the website, the full program should be avaialable soon. Everything is on course for the first IVU Congress in Latin America, and it looks like being one of the best ever. see: http://www.ivu.org/congress/2004 ---------------------------------------------------------
. . . there was an International Congress in St. Louis, USA - September 1904. See http://www.ivu.org/congress/1904 for details.
SPAIN - VEGETARIAN CONGRESS First Vegetarian Congress The impressive rock "Penon de Ifach", the most emblematic symbol of the Costa Blanca, will preside the First Vegetarian Congress promoted by the Spanish Vegetarian Union (UVE). The Congress will take place at the Hotel Roca Esmeralda, a 3 stars hotel located first line on the beach of Calpe (Alicante). This meeting will host outstanding activists of the vegetarian movement, and the programme will include workshops, conferences and debates on topics related to vegetarian diets, health and holistic development, animal rights and environmental protection. Also cookery demonstrations will be offered, there will be exhibitors with educational materials, books, etc., and additionally there will be some entertainment activities, excursions, etc. Lectures will be mainly in Spanish, but additional workshops in English can be scheduled if a group of foreign attendants signs up. Vegetarian/vegan food will
be available as buffet meals, to meet everyone's requirements.
El imponente Peñón
de Ifach, el símbolo más emblemático de la Costa
Blanca, presidirá el Primer Congreso de la Unión Vegetariana
Española (UVE). El Congreso tendrá lugar en el Hotel Roca
Esmeralda, hotel de 3 estrellas situado en primera línea de la
Playa de Levante de la localidad de Calpe (Alicante). --------------------------------------------------------- UK - VEGAN SOCIETY 60TH ANNIVERSARY As part of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations of the world's oldest and largest Vegan Society, on Thursday 14th October 2004 in London UK Stephen Walsh PhD, (see http://www.ivu.org/members/council/stephen-walsh.html ) author of Plant Based Nutrition and Health (see http://www.vegansociety.com/shop ), will be giving the Fourteenth Frey Ellis Memorial Lecture on vegetarian nutrition. The lecture will take place at King's College, University of London, 150 Stamford Street [near Waterloo Station] and will be introduced by Professor Tom Sanders, Head of the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, a former PhD student of the late Dr Frey Ellis, who was a pioneer in the study of vegetarian nutrition. Several other distinguished professors and former students will be present, together with current students, nutritionists and representatives of vegetarian groups from the UK and abroad. For further details see http://www.ivu.org/news/frey.pdf or call +44 (0)207 928 7459
(Oct 15 -21) - 30th anniversary of FFL October 15-21 marks the annual observance of Feed the World Week where Food for Life volunteers and concerned vegetarians distribute free food to those in need. 2004 also marks the 108th anniversary of the birth of the founder of Food for Life, Swami Prabhupada and the 30th anniversary of Food for Life. Food for Life is the world's largest vegan food relief and currently serves free meals to the needy at a rate of one meal every second. More than 100 million free meals have been served since the program began 30 years ago in 1974. Food for Life Global - Volunteers
Needed! Please contact volunteer@ffl.org If you or someone you know would like to volunteer any of the following skills: graphic design, web application development, grant writing, fund raising, web marketing, or writing. For more information, visit http://www.ffl.org ---------------------------------------------------------
Saturday, Oct. 23, 2004,
10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
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