Fwd: SF to host 2012 IVU World Veg Congress

[Guest guest]

CONGRATULATIONS to

The San Francisco Vegetarian Society

 

from John Davis <vegweb

 

The International Vegetarian Union Council

has voted for the 40th IVU World Veg Congress

to be held in October 2012 in San Francisco.

 

It will be hosted by the San Francisco Vegetarian Society

at the San Francisco County Fair Building in the

Golden Gate Park.

 

SFVS was founded in 1968 and joined IVU the same year.

Their president,Dixie Mahy, was a speaker way back at the

1975 IVU Congress in Maine - the first to be held in North

America - where she also performed a dance and chaired

a plenary session. We have a long history together.

 

They have been celebrating World Vegetarian Day since

1988 with a two day celebration in the Golden Gate Park

the past five years. Dixie had a hand in the original decision

to have a WORLD VEGETARIAN DAY on October 1st. Last

year, there were 5,500 attendees, 33 speakers and over 70

exhibitors.

 

These days SFVS has a very lively program of activities

and recently persuaded the city Board of Supervisors to

launch the first 'meat free monday' in North America.

See:

http://report.blogspot.com/2010/04san

-francisco-declares-mondays-to-be.html

SFVS website: www.sfvs.org

IVU history: www.ivu.org/history or http://www.ivu.org/about.html

 

See you in SF 2012

 

P.S. The first IVU World Veg Congress was in Dresden, Germany,

in 1908 and they've been held every 2 or 3 years since then. At

the 1913 Congress in the Netherlands, a visitor from San Francisco

invited the delegates to hold the WVC in conjunction with the SF

World's Fair in 1915. But the Europeans thought it was too far to

go

and voted for Paris, France, in 1916...which of course was

cancelled

due to the First World War.

 

 

More info will be at www.ivu.org/congress2012 as it becomes

available.

[Guest guest]

Wow,

this is very interesting news and I hope I can attend. I’m just in the

throws of getting an old motorhome and perhaps I could make the trip down in

2012.

 

I had

no idea they had vegetarian conferences and especially going back that far. I’d

love to become involved with an organization like that.

 

 

Jackie Thipthorpe

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