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PETA LAUNCHES WEBSITE IN INDIA
PETA India is expanding its presence on the subcontinent with the launch of www.petaindia.com, which will raise awareness to millions of people about the plight of animals caught up in India's manufacturing industry. As an introductory feature, visitors to the site can read an exclusive interview with action movie star and martial arts expert Steven Seagal. Opposed to hunting and fishing even as a child, Seagal promotes the equanimity of all sentient beings mighty and small. Visitors can also view the Pamela Anderson narrated skin trade video that shocked the world and resulted in the boycotting of Indian leather from several major retail companies. US ARMY PROMOTES
VEGETARIAN CONGRESS VEGETARIAN FOOD
Playboy's Playmate of the Year, Kimberley Hefner has starred in an advertisement promoting vegetarian food in the US Army. The advert, which ran in the Stars and Stripes daily military paper, shows Kimberley dressed in American red, white and blue and pointing to the camera with the
Dona S statement "I WANT YOU ........ To Go Vegetarian". Air
to 20 th force Captain Mike Daniel comments: "There is a growing roster of vegetarians in the military, just as there is in the rest of society."
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INDIA'S $2.5M FOREIGN TRAINING PROGRAMME
India has helped support over 144 countries in Africa, Asia, South America and Eastern Europe in training their civil and military personnel in various technical and economical programmes. So far $2.5m has been spent on the programme and over 25,000 people have been trained. Tanzania is one of its largest beneficiaries, with over 1000 people having benefited. H.E. Dinesh K. Jain, Indian High Commissioner to Tanzania, said: "In India, we deeply appreciate Tanzania Gurudev Chitrabhanu extending honours to the Governor of Goa, playing a willing and friendly host to a large Indian Diaspora Mohammed Fazal, at the first Vegetarian Congress in India held in October 2001 that has settled in this country for generations." In Afghanistan, this programme has set up the Institute of Child Health, the largest hospital in Kabul.
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The image of an ancient statue of the FOOD FOR THOUGHT
goddess Yakshni (also known as Yakshi), At a seminar in Tilvarghat near Jabalpur, M.P., forty partic
which was found in 1917 on the bank of the ipants from the medical profession presented their papers on
river Ganges, Patna, Didarganj, has been put various diseases and how they could be cured or alleviated on a stamp. The statue, which is believed to by adopting a Jain lifestyle. The doctors pointed out that
be dated around 300B.C., was chosen to people suffering from heart attacks, cancer, diabetes,
celebrate early Indian art, of which this Stamp depicting paralysis and such other diseases would have more chance of
particular statue has been deemed a Goddess Yakshni being cured if they followed a Jain diet. The doctors masterpiece. The sculpture stands 5'4" in presented results of many case studies to support their views.
height and was carved from a single piece of Chunar sand stone. Acharya Vidyasagarji attended all the sessions and
The statue currently stands in the Patna Museum, Patna, but it commented on many of the papers.
has been displayed in France and the USA as well.
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