Swissveg
Niederfeldstrasse 92
8408 Winterthur
Switzerland
Contact person: Simone Fuhrmann
+41(0)71 477 33 87; +41(0)71 477 33 77
info@swissveg.ch
simone.fuhrmann@swissveg.ch
http://www.swissveg.ch
https://www.facebook.com/swissveg/?ref=page_internal
Topics
- Educational policy/project
- Environmental organization
- Environmental project
- Volunteers are welcome.
About us
Swissveg is the largest representation of vegetarians and vegans in Switzerland.
Since 1993, the politically and denominationally independent organization has been working with positive publicity to permanently reduce meat consumption and make a plant-based, responsible lifestyle an attractive and healthy alternative accessible to everyone.
Swissveg is characterized by in-depth information and a wide range of events.
For experts and consumers, the organization has established itself as a leading point of contact in all aspects of vegetarian-vegan lifestyle.
Goals and successes
• Informations: Many journalists contact Swissveg whenever they want to know about the plant-based diet. This has led to the fact that in Switzerland only rare prejudices against the vegetarian-vegan diet are spread in the media.
• Politics: Through our petition to the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH), the vegetarian diet was first taken seriously. As a further result, for the first time the vegetarian diet was dealt with in detail in the Swiss Nutrition Report; Swissveg has contributed to the official legal definition of the words "vegetarian", "vegan" etc: Swiss regulation on the labeling and advertising of food
• For vegetarian/vegan Consuments: Through our contact with the food industry, we have been able to provide information and, in the case of wrongly declared foods, ensure that the declaration or the ingredients have been adapted. Products with the by Swissveg controlled V-Label make grocery shopping easier.
• Educational work: Die Swissveg Ginger Groups regularly carry out actions throughout Switzerland. In public places and trade fairs, countless passers-by could be familiarized with the plant-based diet - and many of them became vegetarians. 2012 Swissveg brought the street festival Veganmania to Switzerland. Through the vegan street festival, many people are drawn to the easy and joyful way of vegan life style. We inform the press/journalists and the public about the veg. view of things. Through reader's letters we react to false and incomplete reporting and can do much to a correct picture about the veg. livestyle in the editorial offices and readers.
• Internet: Swissveg offers the most comprehensive and at the same time most visited homepage on the topic of plant-based nutrition in the German-speaking world.
• Information material
• Schools: Swissveg always supports students, teachers and teachers who want to bring the plant-based diet into their school with well-founded information. This allows us to inform the young generation about the benefits of the vegetarian diet. Therefore Swissveg also participated in the creation of a vegetarian teaching tool.
• Animal protection: Although it is not precisely measurable, we hear again and again from persons who have ceased to work through our work, to eat animals, or to limit their meat consumption very strongly. This removes the economic base from the animal yield industry and saves much animal suffering. Every person changing to the vegetarian-vegan diet saves many animal life.
Some of our ongoing projects:
• In cooperation with the city Lyss, Swissveg successfully introduced the first Vegi Day in Switzerland.
• Swissveg advises the food industry and major distributors, holds lectures and publishes the magazine "Veg-Info".
• Since 1996 we control the products which are labeled vegetarian / vegan with the V-Label.
• We are a local partner of the only vegan fair in Switzerland, the Veggie World Zurich.
• We also keep you informed and up-to-date with our Facebook-Page and our monthly newsletter.
Simone Fuhrmann is the Deputy Managing Director of Swissveg.
For other net participants we can offer an expert guidance through trained staff, give an expert opinion, procure expert information and establish new contacts in the field of our work.