The prestigious, 200-year-old Oxford Union Society has made history by publicly supporting veganism: The vegan team won the debate…
Dr. Rao (vegan): Scientists have identified nine planetary boundaries that we must stay within for the sustainability of life on Earth. At the moment, we have transgressed six of them. And any one of these transgressions is enough to kill life as we know it on this planet. The good news is that when we go vegan, we help resolve all six of them. That’s the power we have as individuals to reverse our existential crisis.
Animal agriculture is the leading cause of ecological destruction because it uses 37% of the ice-free land area of the planet just to graze animals, while bottom trawling an area of the ocean floor the size of South America every year for industrial fishing. Animal agriculture is the only major activity in which we destroy forests and replace them not with other trees for timber or paper, but with grass, which drastically reduces the diversity of life that the land can support. Animal agriculture is the primary reason why humans have reduced the number of trees on the planet by half.
By going vegan, we can give nearly 40% of the land area of the planet back to nature, as well as the entire ocean. By restoring habitats for wild animals and allowing them to freely live in the ocean, we resolve this transgression as well. If instead we let wild animals die, we die.
What social good comes from animal agriculture? Nothing. Only obesity, heart disease, diabetes, cancer, biodiversity destruction, soil depletion, falling of our waterways, antibiotic resistance, dangerous and dehumanizing work, animal cruelty, climate catastrophe, world hunger, and let’s not forget, pandemics. Indeed, there is nothing that will not improve when we end the cruelty and folly of exploiting animals.
I have made a pinky promise to our granddaughter Kimaya that the world will go largely vegan by 2026, which is the year we will have killed almost all the wild animals on Earth if we do not change course.
Supreme Master Ching Hai (vegan): The situation is just like when doctors and nurses want to help the patient, but the patient doesn’t do anything that he is supposed to do in order to get well. Just take the medicine. Just be vegan, my God. It’s not even about God or spirituality. It’s scientifically proven that going vegan will save you, save your lives, save your loved ones, and save your planet. Please just go vegan, be repentant, make peace and do good deeds.
All information concerning the scientific evidence of climate change and its solution is in Supreme Master Ching Hai’s Book, “From Crisis to Peace.” Free to download at: Crisis2Peace.org
For more information on Dr. Sailesh Rao’s mission to heal Earth’s climate by 2026, please visit ClimateHealers.org
