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.
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.
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.
The President of the Washington DC Vegetarian Society, Saurabh Dalal, gave a very interesting presentation to members of the Bangkok International Vegetarian Alliance on the need to go vegan in order to prevent the serious damage to the environment that livestock farming causes.