(Conference at “The Hongkong Vegan Association”, 17 July 2011) THE MEANING OF BEING VEGAN I wish you a very good afternoon to all of you, ladies and gentlemen. I feel particularly happy to be here. Being vegan means being special people, or at least trying to become like that. Being vegan means understanding easily each other, talking the same language, sharing the same feelings of love for ourselves and for…

ALMOST AN ECCLESIASTIC SERMON Dear Vegan and Not-Vegan Friends of Singapore, It’s a great pleasure to be here with you and bring a message of health (for the body and for the soul), plus a message of hope in a better world, with more beauty, peace, harmony, happiness and enjoyment. Sounds almost like a Church prayer, a Mosque sermon or a Buddhist preach. Every good Catholic, every Christian priest would…

LETTER A FRIEND AFFLICTED BY PAINS IN HER HANDS AND FEET, CONTINUOUSLY WORSENS WITH MEDICAL CURES Hello Valdo, I’m a friend of Michele Manca, as well as an admirer of yours. I would like you to consider the case of my friend Maria, afflicted with pains in her hands, and also in her feet, accompanied by an insistent fever which comes up every day in the afternoon and the evening.…

(Interview at Televenezia-Mestre on 16 May 2011) PERSONAL CURRICULUM I am a Udinese fellow living frequently in the Orient, but with a touch of Venetian, since on my paternal house in Tavagnacco there is still a ‘600 original paint with the San Marco stem on it. Thousand trips to Asia in the last 30 years make me feel kind of a Marco Polo of the modern times. Even possessing some…

LETTER ACNE IS STILL THERE, INSPITE OF MY RAW FOOD (AND SOME CIGARETTE) Dear Valdo, here I am again with the same story. I have tried to apply all possible solutions to my acne. I am eating as raw as possible with very few exceptions. True, I am still smoking, even if much less than before. But 1 or 10 or 15 is always polluting the body, and anyhow I…

LETTER MY HUSBAND IS TORMENTED BY RHEUMATISMS AND PSORIASIS Dear Mr Valdo Vaccaro, I am Betty R. from Holland. My husband Huub and I both have an immunity disorder. Our common friend Mauro advised me to contact you in order to get some good views concerning the rheumatism (psoriatic arthritis) of my husband. The first medicine rheumatologist treated him with methotrexate. After a while he got very ill of this…

LETTER A DESPERATE MESSAGE PLACED IN A BOTTLE Good day, when I desperately sent this email, I gave it a last glance just as one does when throwing a bottle into the sea in desperate search of help, thinking that no-one would receive it. It was the 20th of April, but this didn’t happen. The bottle didn’t get lost. I immediately started to change my diet, without doing any fast…

LETTER NEVER DEMONIZE THE SAUSAGE Hi Valdo, from the Germany of wurstels and beer, what could arrive except the killer cucumber, ‘cause it certainly couldn’t be the killer sausage. While reading and re-reading you furiously, I’ve entered into the stream of your thoughts, and it really feels great, like having put an extra pair of glasses on. ENOUGH ABOUT VEGETABLES: AFTER ALL WE ARE NOT RABBITS Now really everything comes…

LETTER 1 A TREMENDOUS BLOW FROM A NOT EXACTLY SENSITIVE DOCTOR Dear Dr. Vaccaro, I discovered you searching the internet to help my 69 year old husband who has chronic renal insufficiency. After visiting the doctor a year ago, we stopped living. He frightened us so much, threatening us with imminent dialysis. My husband lost all hope and all vitality. For both of us living was transformed into just waiting…

LETTER SEARCHING FOR REFERENCES Dear Dr. Valdo, when someone asks me “Where did you read that vitamin and mineral supplements are harmful”, or even worse, “Who are you to say that your sources are reliable, while ours are not”, I find myself in difficulty because other than referring to what you maintain in your blog, I don’t have the right answer. Could you be so kind as to indicate some…