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Leaflets from IVU Opening of Sthitaprajna-Vegan Life Centre – 1 Nov, 2009, Byndoor, Udupi Dist., Karnataka, India. Welcome to Organisations That Have Recently Registered with IVU IRAN:
Eshragh Vegetarians - eshraghvegetarians.orq.ir September 2009
Welcome to Organisations That Have Recently Registered with IVU INDIA:
Himalayan Nature Society - www.hnsindia.org August 2009 Welcome to Organisations That Have Recently Registered with IVU June 2009 October and November Events Being Planned On 1 November (World Vegan Day), a vegan event is planned to mark the opening of STHITAprajna (Vegan Life Centre) An International Vegan Centre for Yoga, Meditation, Relaxation and Rejuvenation in a 3 acre plot located near Byndoor, close to the Western Coast of South India in the state of Karnataka. April/May 2009 Animal Welfare Workshop in Mumbai
Dr R.K. Pachauri is head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He is also a vegetarian who urges meatarians to go meatless at least one day a week. His blog features videos of his speeches, as well as interviews and articles: www.rkpachauri.org Here’s one example: www.rkpachauri.org/pdf/London08.pdf NEW ASSOCIATE MEMBER SOCIETY: Saphal Society, Bhopal, India - www.saphal.org - Empowering People Through Self-Development Organisations That Have Recently Registered with IVU December 2008 New Business Supporter: 25 Jan, 2009 (Sun) - Vegan Musical Evening in Kundapur, India with two artists performing Karnatic and Hindustani classical vocals. This event will also feature an interactive session on Vegan Diet followed by vegan dinner at Kundapur. All are welcome! For more information, indianvegansociety@rediffmail.com October 2008 Israel’s Next Prime Minister a Vegetarian? August 2008 Vegan Music Festival Byndoor, India [since this article appeared a report and photos have been added.] ---- Double Serving from Maneka Gandhi Here are two samples of her writing on veg topics: 1. Ms Gandhi’s views on her interactions with non-vegetarians. I will not sit at a table with dead bodies or people eating them. By now this is so well known that internal airlines never even ask what meal preference I have and no stranger sitting next to me orders meat. I cannot bear the smell or the look of the meat. I cannot bear the smell of the person who eats it. I am not the only one who believes that vegetarians and non vegetarians have a different smell. The smell of meat oozes through the pores and becomes a rich rancid sweat which fouls the air around it as soon as the temperature rises. I suppose people who do not eat garlic and onions feel the same way about the odour of people who do. Do vegetarians really smell better? News from the world of science. Anthropologists in the Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Czech Republic. Czech Republic decided in 2006 to study the effects of diet on body odour "attractiveness". More specifically, they wanted to find out if women prefer the body odour of men fed a vegetarian or a non-vegetarian diet. The result? The researchers J Havlicek and P Lenochova found that women judged the body odour of men fed a vegetarian diet to be "significantly more attractive, more pleasant, and less intense". After all – if you eat something that you cannot eat raw because it stinks, what do you expect the outcome to be? While an apple of peas or grain can be directly taken off the plant and eaten, can you wring a chicken's neck and then bite into it? If you could, then why does meat take so long to cook and so many spices and herbs to hide the taste? Even the thickest skinned vegetables can be eaten after simply steaming with no seasoning – can you do the same with meat? Moving on to a simple vegetarian vs. non-vegetarian example, heat up your oven to 98.6 degrees and place a tomato and piece of meat on it. Check back in a few hours to compare the rate of decay and the resulting smells. If it smells horrible in the open, do you think it will smell less horrible inside your body. After all, meat and blood decays very fast wherever it is. If you're one of those that is still thinking about whether to go vegetarian ... Do it because you will smell better. Do it because knowing that will boost your confidence and self-esteem. Do it for someone you love. 2. People’s thinking about why or why not to be veg differs from country to country, and it’s instructive to see some of these differences. Here is Maneka Gandhi on excuses she hears in India from people who were born into veg families but then decided to stop being veg. Her introduction is especially nice. Everyone's life is strewn with incidents wherein they have a chance to become bigger than themselves, to be nobler and kinder and happier. Some people don't recognize these opportunities but they return again and again – so you still have time to open your eyes. However some people go in the opposite direction – they take the chance that life gives them and they abuse it and strangle it till the little luck they have squeezes itself out the window and runs for its life. They then intellectualise their decisions and blame the loss on someone else. Take for example someone who has the good fortune to be born finally into a vegetarian household. Why they would lapse into a carnivorous diet and pick up disease, obesity, bad odour, and bad karma is beyond me. But people do. Every now and then, I see people from proud vegetarian families eating meat. When confronted, they do look terribly sheepish and come up with such weird excuses that I thought I would list them for you. These are a selection of the reasons spouted by ex-vegetarians for breaking the faith. "We don't want to look old fashioned. We need to keep up with the times. It's far more sophisticated to eat shrimp and steak than vegetables and dal. (Even if the rest of the world is going the other way?) "Eating meat makes me seem more normal and fit in" (The same argument is given by smokers and drinkers. Being like everybody else is just so boring.) "I can't get protein any other way and I need to put on weight" (Soyabean and dal are the highest sources of protein. All the world's biggest and most powerful animals, elephants, rhinos, giraffes, bulls and horses are vegetarian) "Poor people grow goats and if we stop eating them they will be deprived of their livelihood" (So you're actually eating meat as a social service? Give up your car and ride in a tanga to support the poor tangawallahs, and wear handspun material to support the poor weavers and eat in earthenware to support the poor potters). To enjoy more of Maneka’s wit and wisdom, read the full article at: July 2008
June 2008 Jashu Shah, Vegetarian Leader, Passes Away Jashu Shah was a pioneering figure for vegetarianism, particularly in Asia. A native of India, he attended his first IVU congress in 1957 in India and gradually became more involved, eventually becoming a member of the IVU International Council in 1982, the Asia Regional Coordinator for 20 years from 1986 until 2006, when he retired during the IVU Congress which he helped organise in Goa. Jashu was also the first president of the Asian Vegetarian Union in 1999, continuing in that role until he retired last year, and Secretary of the Vegetarian Society (Reverence for Life) in Mumbai for many years. For more on Jashu’s devotion to the vegetarian movement, including photos, please visit www.ivu.org/members/council/jashu-shah.html ---- Maneka Gandhi on Excuses for Not Being Veg Here are her views on her interactions with non-vegetarians news.in.msn.com/. . . 4722 February 2008 Israeli Parliament Marks First Animal Rights Day "Out of a ethical recognition of the fact that animals go through countless experiences similar to those experienced by all of us – agony and joy, fear and happiness, curiosity and boredom, social contacts, parent-offspring attachment and more – I hold that there is no justification for ignoring the basic needs of animals, and that it is our duty as humans and as a society to take action to protect their basic rights. These rights include, among others, the right not to suffer violence, hunger and thirst, the right for living in a space allowing free movement, and the right for natural behavior. I believe the state of Israel has the duty to protect the rights of the animals, and pledge to try to adopt habits in my personal life as well, that will prevent harm to animals."
IVU at the All India Kannada Literary Conference December 2007 You can see an interview with Shankar Narayan - IVU regional coordinator for India & West Asia – at www.svb.org.br/vegetarianismo/relatorio-de-eventos/11th-international-vegan-festival-3.html That's the report, photos and videos of the International Vegan Festival in India. There is also an interview on there with Dr. Abdol Ghaffar Ebadi, president of the Iran Vegetarian Society (an IVU member society), and several others - all compiled by Marly Winckler, IVU regional coordinator for Latin America. ---- Welcome to New IVU Business Supporter Rangoli - Veg. Restaurant, Margao, Goa, India - www.goawoodlandshotel.com November 2007
---- News from Pakistan Khalid Mahmood Qurashi - president of the Animal Save Movement, Pakistan, sends the following news. For photos: www.ivu.org/westasia/pakistan.html World Animal Day exists to celebrate animal life and humankind’s special relationship with the animals. In Pakistan, the Animal Save Movement celebrated World Animal Day on 4 October with a fruitful gathering at which many healthy, beautiful children, prominent lawyers, political and social workers and animal friends participated. Participants took an oath to protect the welfare of animals and birds, to not eat meat, and to continue peaceful campaigns against cruelty to animals and birds. We took an oath also that we continue to strive for day when no animal or bird will live in fear or pain. ----
October 2007
Furthermore, four VUI representatives will be speaking this month at the International Vegan Festival in India. VUI President, Dr Abdol Ghaffar Ebadi, along with Mrs. Mahin Ayyubi, will speak on Vegetarianism in Iran. Dr Mohammad Shokrzadeh’s paper is titled, ‘Study of Pollutants in Vegetables’, and Dr Alireza Dadashzadeh’s topic will be Animal Rights in Iran. September 2007 Welcome to New IVU Business Supporters
E-INN (We make business a healthy affair), Bangalore India - www.e-inn.in Sai Vishram: A Vegetarian, Non-alchoholic Beach Resort, Karnataka, India - www.saivishram.com
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October 2009
Dr Pachauri’s Blog 
Jewish Vegetarians of North America (JVNA) issued the following statement:
January 2008
Interview with IVU Regional Coordinator for South & West Asia
New Business Supporter: 
Our friends at the Vegetarian Union of Iran (VUI) recently sent an update on their activities. Although VUI was established only in 2006, the organisation already has more than 2500 members and has arranged more than 20 meetings in different parts of Iran, such as Sari, Babol, Amool, and Qaemshar. Plus, more than 1000 people attended their Meatless Day in Jouybar and Sari. 
