Germany
Streetlife Festival Brings New Ideas and Energy
By Munich News Group (Originally in German)

[Munich] On the weekends of July 19 and September 12, Golden Year 6 (2009), the annual Streetlife Festival was held by the NGO Green City and the Department of Health and Environment of Munich on the famous Leopold Street in Germany. The event attracted exhibitors from all areas including solar-electric vehicles, a volunteer rescue association, as well as groups like “Climate for All,” and “China Bear Rescue.”

 Together with many other German pro-vegan organizations, our Association members shared with participants the urgency of climate change and its quickest solution—the vegan diet. Many people expressed their concern about global warming and discussed intensively with the initiates how to make the transition to a healthier lifestyle. Several elderly ladies asked for recipes and vegan-friendly shop locations in order to prepare animal-free meals for their families. Young people loved our Association’s SOS poster and took souvenir photographs holding it. A group of spiritual artists confessed that they were vegetarians and were on their way to being vegan. They fully agreed with the message in the SOS flyers and wanted to share them with their friends and relatives.

We hope that more green cities will emerge in the world. We also sincerely wish for more people to realize quickly the emergency of global warming and to adopt the plant-based diet to stop planetary heating and climatic catastrophes.

 



Frankfurt Riverbank Festival

[Frankfurt] Along the idyllic bank of the river Main, the Frankfurt Riverbank Festival 2009 was held from August 28 to 30. Initiates from Duisburg and Munich Centers worked hand in hand to establish an “all vegan-plant-based” booth selling simple dishes like curry vegetables with rice, fried noodles, Chinese moon-cake, and German cherry cream cake. Their vegan food was so popular that many people asked where they could find their restaurant.

Seeing the increasingly positive feedback from people about the vegan diet, the initiates feel very encouraged and confident that with God’s blessing, the planet will be saved!