Ariya discount card

7-11 Festival Food

Vegetarian food has been quick to disappear from the 7 Eleven shelves this year after the festival.

Review- Loving Hut

http://www.bangkokpost.com/leisure/restaurant/200322/imitation-deserves-flattery

Loving Hut is an international chain vegetarian restaurant founded by a Taiwanese philanthropic entrepreneur. With support from the United Nations, one of the restaurant's missions is to help save the planet- meaning to combat global warming, water shortages, air pollution, animal extinction, land degradation and deforestation- simply through what we eat.

Phuket Festival

http://www.phuketgazette.net/archives/articles/2010/article9357.html

An interesting study of the festival was carried out by Erik Cohen.
Published as The Chinese vegetarian festival in Phuket by White Lotus Press 2001.

Call to keep Veg Fest traditional

PHUKET Shrines Association President Prasert Fakthongphol has asked participating shrines in this year's Vegetarian Festival to have their mah song (spirit mediums) use only "traditional"objects to pierce their cheeks.

The request reflects the increasing popularity of "modern" objects like beach umbrellas, power drills and motorbike parts in recent years.

Among the traditional items he suggested as the instruments of choice are those mentioned in Chinese legends. Such objects run the gamut from swords, axes, and maces to 12-inch spiked-staffs with figurines of Chinese gods as headpieces.

Maintaining this tradition was difficult because some mah song do not register with the shrines.

"They piece their bodies outside the temples and join the procession on the streets," he said.

At the Mall

The shopping malls, restaurants and food stalls are ready for the vegetarian festival. The yellow flags are everywhere. There are even vegetarian tours, taking people to provincial temples.

TV news report

A Thai TV news report warns that some foods labelled as vegetarian
are not. They contain meat and other animal products.
The mislabelled products are imports from Taiwan.
Traders are preparing for the vegetarian festival that begins on October 8th.

BIVA 19th Anniversary Celebration

http://www.bangkokvegeratarian.org/

http://www.facebook.com/go.biva

The Bangkok International Vegetarian Alliance held its 19th Anniversary Meeting on 2nd October 2010 at the Lotus Hotel. The theme of the meeting was vegetarian schools.

Present were Mr Dominic Desmier, Principal of 'MISB' Modern International School of Bangkok and Dr. Loren Agrey, President of the Asia Pacific International University, together with students from those institutions.

Each group from the schools went on the stage and answered questions on the benefits of vegetarianism.