A Hotter World is a Hungrier, Dirtier, More Violent World

A Hotter World is a Hungrier, Dirtier, More Violent World

Climate Change has been in the news lately, as we all know.  Different people have different views.  Some believe in it, and some don’t.  However, the scientific facts support the theory of Climate Change.  Not only that, but Climate Change has far reaching consequences which most people do not think about - a hotter world is a hungrier, dirtier, more violent world.        

                           

The main source of climate change is not the lack of sustainable energy, it is the meat and dairy based diet.  The massive amount of animal feces from raising animals for food is the largest source of airborne methane in the United States.  Methane traps heat in the atmosphere 100 times more effectively than carbon dioxide.  Forests, which have a cooling effect on the earth, are being cut down to provide grazing for cattle.         

                              

The meat and dairy based diet is not only the main cause of climate change, but also causes world hunger and starvation.  More than 80% of starving and hungry children live in countries where food is grown and exported to feed animals raised for food.  More than 45% of earth’s total land is devoted to raising animals for food.  3.5 billion more people could be fed by growing plants for human consumption on land currently used to grow crops for farmed animals.     

                                                                

And it is dirty!  The meat industry causes more water pollution in the United States than all other industries combined.  Animals raised for food produce 130 times more excrement than the entire human population, but without the sewage system!        

                                       

Animals raised for food are the number one cause of wildlife habitat loss, and species extinction. Wild animals are expected to lose 2/3 of their population by 2020.  The largest number of exploited, tortured, murdered individuals on earth today are animals: domestic or wild, in the air, on land, and in the water.  This injustice has a price, and the price we are paying is called: Climate Change.

We can stop Climate Change at our kitchen tables.  All of us can do our part in resolving this problem by our food choices, and make this a kinder world.

Go Vegan – Stop Climate Change!

People Are Dying From Climare Change In Africa

“People are dying from Climate Change in Africa” lamented Minister Kaouthar Chelbi of Tunisia.   She was waiting for Ambassador Moncef Baati to arrive for the meeting with Sharon Wallenberg, Founder of Vegan International.  The meeting was to discuss a new initiative - a proposed United Nations Against Speciesism.

“It’s a radical approach”, drawled Sharon Wallenberg, founder of Vegan International.  This was the first time Ambassador Inga King of St. Vincent and the Grenadines raised her sparkling blue eyes.  Ms. Wallenberg was describing the proposed UN Convention Against Speciesism.

Ambassador Mohammad Edrees of Egypt mentioned, “End Communicable Diseases – ECD” in comparison to Wallenberg’s proposed UN Convention Against Speciesism.  According to Edrees, the former was destroyed by the Pharmaceutical industry. 

Ambassador Yabou from the Gambia has sent the proposed Convention to his legal department for review.  Vegan International legal advisor, Retired New York State Supreme Court Justice Ira J. Raab is also reviewing the proposed Convention in relation to International Law.

In all, Vegan International Founder, Sharon Wallenberg, has met with 17 United Nations Ambassadors to present the concept of a United Nations Convention against Speciesism.  The Ambassadors then relay the information to their respective Governments.  Several nations have expressed an interest in the idea. 

The new year, 2020, promises many new innovations, and it is hoped that Vegan International’s proposed United Nations Convention Against Speciesism will be one of them.

U N Convention Against Speciesism is needed.

U N Convention Against Speciesism is needed because:

It is an innovative approach to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, a simple solution to reducing climate change, hunger, poverty, improving food security and nutrition, human health, promoting sustainable consumption, sustainable agriculture, reducing water, air and land pollution, improving sanitation, and achieving justice for all inhabitants of planet Earth.

Climate Change:  Scientific facts prove that the main cause of global warming melting polar ice caps and raising sea water levels is methane.  Methane traps heat in the atmosphere more effectively than carbon dioxide.  The meat and dairy based diet is directly responsible for the impending disaster we are currently facing. 

Hunger:  Land used to grow crops to feed animals killed for food, could be used to grow crops to feed people.  This would significantly reduce world hunger especially in developing nations which export crops while experiencing hunger.

Human Health Mortality and Morbidity:  There is copious documentation that transitioning from the traditional fiber rich plant-based diet to the fat and cholesterol filled meat and dairy based diet causes human mortality and morbidity from heart disease, cancer, diabetes and antibiotic resistance. 

Pollution: Air, water, and land pollution is a direct result of animal agriculture.  In the United States, animal agriculture produces more pollution than all other industries combined.

Misuse of scarce resources: Land and water are being used unsustainably. Rainforests are cut and burned down to provide grazing land and land, and to grow crops to feed to animals raised for food.  It takes a hundred times more water to produce meat than vegetables.

Species extinction and Habitat Destruction:  As animal agriculture grows, it needs more and more resources of land and water, destroying the habitats of existing species and causing extinction of irreplaceable individuals.

Justice:  Speciesism is unjust, unsustainable and destructive.  It is treating animals as slaves of humans.  The unfortunate individuals, who are eaten, used for clothing, experiments, and entertainment, have no rights of their own.  As you know from the past, the individuals kidnapped in Africa, and forced to be slaves, did not want to be treated better, they wanted to be free and have rights.  This is true not just for humans, but for all species. 

Is 202 the Year for a UN Convention Against Speciesism?

“People are dying from Climate Change in Africa” lamented Minister Kaouthar Chelbi of Tunisia.   She was waiting for Ambassador Moncef Baati to arrive for the meeting with Sharon Wallenberg, Founder of Vegan International.  The meeting was to discuss a new initiative - a proposed United Nations Against Speciesism.

“It’s a radical approach”, drawled Sharon Wallenberg, founder of Vegan International.  This was the first time Ambassador Inga King of St. Vincent and the Grenadines raised her sparkling blue eyes.  Ms. Wallenberg was describing the proposed UN Convention Against Speciesism.

Ambassador Mohammad Edrees of Egypt mentioned, “End Communicable Diseases – ECD” in comparison to Wallenberg’s proposed UN Convention Against Speciesism.  According to Edrees, the former was destroyed by the Pharmaceutical industry.

 

Ambassador Yabou from the Gambia has sent the proposed Convention to his legal department for review.  Vegan International legal advisor, Retired New York State Supreme Court Justice Ira J. Raab is also reviewing the proposed Convention in relation to International Law.

In all, Vegan International Founder, Sharon Wallenberg, has met with 17 United Nations Ambassadors to present the concept of a United Nations Convention against Speciesism.  The Ambassadors then relay the information to their respective Governments.  Several nations have expressed an interest in the idea. 

The new year, 2020, promises many new innovations, and it is hoped that Vegan International’s proposed United Nations Convention Against Speciesism will be one of them.

Next Week at the United Nations

Next week, Vegan International Founder and Author Sharon Wallenberg,  will promote a Convention Against Speciesism at the United Nations.  A new UN Convention is needed to promote and protect the rights of all species.  This Convention would be an internationally recognized instrument for the protection of all inhabitants of Earth.  Currently there are no rights or protection afforded to the most vulnerable on the planet, or to the planet itself. 

Speciesism, the exploitation, and violent abuse of individuals of another species, is not recognized as a category of discrimination.  It is widely tolerated throughout the world.  Species other than human are excluded from any protection, are treated as objects instead of rights holders, and are subjected to violence and abuse of all kinds.

Respect for the rights of all species benefits everyone: humans, those of other species, and the planet.  It helps achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by ultimately reducing poverty, achieving food security, improving nutrition, promoting sustainable veganic agriculture, reducing human mortality and morbidity from diet related disease such as heart disease, diabetes, and cancer, sustainably managing the scarce resources of land and water, combating climate change, sustainably managing forests, and reducing pollution of air, water, and land. 

A UN Convention Against Speciesism finally ‘leaves no one behind’.  It creates a ‘place at the table’ for all inhabitants of planet Earth.  This proposed new UN Convention would bring clarity to the nature of the rights of all species, and to the responsibilities necessary to protect them.  It would view all species as rights-holders, and these rights would be in a single document.  In addition, it would raise public awareness in those nations which do not ratify this Convention.

#UNConvention, #Speciesism, #Vegan, #compassion

The Unfulfilled Promise of Nuremberg

After millions of innocent people were killed in World War Two, everyone prayed for a more peaceful future.  The primary goal of the United Nations was “to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.” 

An International Military Tribunal (IMT) was established in Nuremberg. Chief Prosecutor Robert M. Jackson (US Supreme Court) warned that if law was to serve a useful purpose, “it must condemn aggression by any other nations including those who sit here now in judgement.” 

A war called Speciesism is being perpetrated on innocent victims by all developed nations.  This unlimited aggression is against those most vulnerable on this planet - defenseless animals - considered by some to be another nation.

“To initiate a war of aggression is the supreme international crime” was decided at Nuremberg...It was hoped that this might deter future wars.  Yet, it soon became apparent that not all were prepared to give up their perceived right to go to war. 

Speciesism, is a supreme international crime.  It is a war against the defenseless who are murdered, incarcerated, abused, subjected to habitat destruction and species extinction.  The by-products of this war are climate change from methane; pollution of water, land, and air; rising human health care costs and human morbidity and mortality.

The promise of Nuremberg remains unfulfilled.

#Nuremberg, #speciesism, #climatechange, #vegan

Today's Shoah

Alex Hershaft was five years old when the Nazis invaded his native Poland.  Almost immediately, half a million Jews were crowded into the Warsaw ghetto.  One in five died from disease or starvation, others were sent to the Treblinka death camp.  Those left in the Warsaw Ghetto put up a heroic fight, against impossible odds, to combat the Nazis in their ultimate destruction of the entire ghetto.   Alex and his mother survived because of the kindness of gentiles; his father is thought to have been caught and killed by the Nazis.

Dr. Alex Hershaft has a Ph.D. in chemistry and works as an environmental consultant, specializing in wastewater treatment.  He was sent to a slaughterhouse in the Midwest.  He turned a corner and saw piles of body parts – hearts, heads, and hoofs.  Horrified, he remembered the extermination camps, and could not get the images out of his mind.  He began to see other similarities between animal agriculture and the death camps in Europe:  farm animals are branded with numbers, separated from their families, taken to their death in rail cars, and murdered.

The parallels are not about the victims, but about the perpetrators. 

It was the arbitrary nature of the cruelty that struck him.  “The Christian lives, and the Jew dies; the dog lives, and the pig dies.  You need to get permission from society – to believe that it is alright that one sentient being will live, and another will die.” Hershaft says.

Dr. Alex Hershaft is the co-Founder of FARM, Farm Animal Rights Movement, the nation’s oldest, and the world’s first, organization devoted exclusively to promoting the rights of animals not to be raised for food.  In addition, he is the Founder of A Well Fed World.  He works closely with Jewish Veg, an organization that encourages Jews to embrace plant-based diets “as an expression of the Jewish values of compassion for animals, concern for health, and care of the environment.”

Why work on behalf of animals when humans suffer? 

“Animals are the most defenseless, the most vulnerable, therefore the most oppressed sentient beings on earth.  Oppressing animals is the gateway to oppressing humans”, says Dr. Hershaft.  “Everyone has the awesome power of life and death over animals.  Every time we shop for food, we literally make a choice between subsidizing life or subsidizing death”. 

Choose Life!