Meatless Thursday in Ghent, Belgium

Greetings fellow travellers. This interview is from this month’s IVU Newsletter.

Ghent, Belgium has the distinction of being the world’s first city to have a Meatless Day. We asked Tobias Leenaert of the Belgian organisation EVA (Ethical Vegetarian Alternative) for more on what’s happening there.

1. Please tell us the history of how Meatless Thursday came to be. [...]

Flexivoracious Times

Greetings fellow travellers,

An intriguing commentary popped up in the Times Online this week, in an article called I’ve no beef with part time vegetarians. Ultimately each person much decide what is acceptable for themself, but the entire article for me folded on the following statement:

A much-neglected downside of not eating meat is the presumptuousness and [...]