Fw: [worldvegansociety] Marianne Thieme at 12 Vegan Festival - 22 to 25 July 2009 – Rio de Janeiro BRAZIL

May 12, 2009

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[worldvegansociety] Marianne Thieme at 12 Vegan Festival - 22 to 25 July 2009 – Rio de Janeiro BRAZIL

Marianne Thieme

Marianne Thieme is a Dutch politician, animal activist and publicist. She is the chairwoman and political leader of the first animal rights party in history that is represented in a national parliament. Since last November, her Party for the Animals has won 2 seats in the Dutch National Parliament, 9 seats in the Dutch Provincial Governments and 1 seat in the Dutch Senate. She was voted Political Talent of the Year 2006 by the Dutch parliamentary press, Most Spicy Politician by women’s magazine Viva and Most Influential Woman for Farmer’s Incomes by the leading Dutch magazine on agriculture. Marianne has published a book on animal rights (‘The Animal’s Century’) and dozens of articles in Dutch national & regional newspapers on factory farming, hunting, animal testing, bird flu, ritual slaughtering, fur, fisheries and vegetarianism. In October 2002 she and other animal protectionists founded the Party for the Animals (Partij voor de Dieren).In 2008, she presented the DVD Meat the Truth, translated into Portugues by Sociedade Vegetariana Brasileira with the title Meat the Truth: Uma Verdade Mais que Inconveniente. Meat the Truth is a high-profile documentary, presented by MP Marianne Thieme, which forms an addendum to earlier films on climate change. Although such films have succeeded in drawing public attention to the issue of global warming, they have repeatedly ignored one of the most important causes of climate change: the intensive livestock production. Meat the Truth draws attention to this by demonstrating that livestock farming generates more greenhouse gas emissions worldwide than all cars, lorries, trains, boats and planes added together. The calculations used in the film derive from and have been validated by the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the UN (FAO), the World Watch Institute, the Institute for Environmental Studies of the Free University Amsterdam and numerous other authoritative sources.Marianne Thieme will be at the Opening cerimony of 12th International Vegan Festival when DVD Meat the Truth - will be showed

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