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The President of Slovenia Turns Vegan and Actively Promotes a Noble Way of Living By Damjan Kovacic, Ljubljana (Originally in Slovene)

Slovenian President Janez Drnovsek is a noble, compassionate humanitarian, who, after being diagnosed with an incurable form of cancer, radically changed his way of life and thinking by becoming a vegan. And during an interview with the magazine Animal Liberation he actively promoted vegetarianism.

Besides, being touched by the suffering of the refugees in Darfur, President Drnovsek began a world-wide initiative to relieve their disastrous situation by visiting with UN Secretary-General Mr. Kofi Annan, President Jacques Chirac of France and other world leaders to “wake them” into being more generous in helping the refugees.

Many politicians, journalists and others wonder how a small European country such as Slovenia can achieve any substantial humanitarian gains on the international level. So Mr. Drnovsek offers the following words of wisdom to address this question.

"We have to raise the consciousness of people, and above all the world’s political leaders, so that the politicians won't think only in geopolitical terms and in their own economic interests. The politicians have to follow their conscience and act more like ordinary human beings, not only as abstract operatives concerned only for the selfish interests of some country. Ordinary citizens are many times more conscious than their leaders, more concerned about the world's problems such as poverty, human disasters and climate change."

For President Drnovsek's full interview with Animal Liberation conducted on December 15, 2005, please visit:
http://www.evana.org/index.php?id=8653&lang=en