I'm John Davis, manager of the International Vegetarian Union, which was founded in 1908 to bring together all the vegetarian groups around the world.

Today we have about 120 vegetarian and vegan organizations as members, those groups in turn have hundreds of thousands of individual members. See http://www.ivu.org for full details.

I've recenly returned from Indonesia where I was attending the 4th Asian Vegetarian Congress, then went up to Xiamen, China for an international forum, all using Singapore as a hub - it was great to see how much progress veg*ns are making in that part of the world.

Next week my wife and I will be in California, thanks to the kind hospitality of the Nelson family, and looking forward to meeting up with many friends of IVU in Los Angeles and San Francisco. If anyone else wants to meet up while we're there do contact me via the IVU website.

Meanwhile I'm in cold damp England - if you want to see where I live check out http://www.oswild.org/hobnob/photos

more later...

john

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