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In the beginning, it was nothing more than a crazy idea. Why not organise a summer festival, where only exclusively vegan-vegetarian food is offered and visitors have the opportunity to inform themselves about vegan-vegetarian nutrition, get to know the various animal welfare organisations and discuss animal welfare topics? This is the question the volunteers of the Berlin organisation Berlin Vegan asked themselves in spring 2008. That's when they decided to organise the first Vegan-Vegetarian Summer Festival in that coming summer.
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Due to the great success of the previous year, it was decided that another festival should take place in the following summer of 2009, once again at the tried-and-tested location of the adventure playground in Humboldthain. Alongside a free vegan-vegetarian buffet, information stands and a varied fringe programme for the younger visitors, this time there was also live music due to the Fête de la Musique taking place at the same time, with diverse artists such as K. C. McKanzie.
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As a result of the massive success in the previous years, it was anticipated that the grounds of the Humboldthain adventure playground would be no match for the influx of people expected at the 2010 festival. That's why the organisers from Berlin Vegan completely revised the concept of the festival - 2010's Summer Festival was to become a "real" street festival and was also to reach out to people outside of the vegan-vegetarian "scene" more than in the previous years. Due to the extra work in terms of organisation, preparation and the handling of all the red tape associated with such a task, a competent partner had to be found - a role that the VEBU Vegetarierbund Deutschland e.V. (German Vegetarian Society) performed outstandingly.
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The Vegan-Vegetarian Summer Festival 2011: a huge success despite the terrible weather!

What a summer festival! Actually it was more of a rain festival. Nonetheless, more visitors braved the wind and rain than we ever could have hoped for, given the weather. The practically uninterrupted queues at the countless food, sales and info stands show that the topic of vegetarianism/veganism and the knowledge of its enormous significance have reached large numbers of the population.
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