Vegetarian Week contest: another opportunity to have a say – and win prizes

18 August 2011

The vegetarian movement is gaining momentum. A growing number of concerned people have decided to follow a vegetarian lifestyle because of the immense suffering and dramatic ecological degradation and climate changes caused by meat production and consumption, among other reasons.

The International Vegetarian Week aims to reinforce this ongoing momentum by highlighting the great variety of blessings that such an individual step reaps. After all, vegetarianism can resolve, or at least alleviate, an impressive variety of hazards we are being confronted with right now: increased challenges to public health, expanding global hunger, immense cruelty to animals, critical environmental and climate degradations, and many more.

With this in mind, a contest has been launched to celebrate the 2011 International Vegetarian Week, and at the same time prepare for the 2012 edition. Participants are invited to submit slogans, posters, flyers, cartoons, essays, videos, poems, songs, music and other contributions emphasizing the beneficial role of vegetarianism for a healthier, more humane and more sustainable world. You are invited to take part in the campaign, with as many entries as you wish.

Depending on individual motivation and artistic or technical talent, those will turn out to be very different in style and expression, but they must all have one thing in common: an expression of hope for more solidarity with people and animals.

So please take part in the campaign by submitting your ideas in English by 10 September!

The results of the contest will be announced on 1 October, 2011, the World Vegetarian Day. Some attractive prizes are waiting and, even more important, the winners’ contributions may be used worldwide for the International Vegetarian Week 2012.

Source: For more information and submitting
Author: IVW

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