According to leading environmental thinkers at the SOS Climate Change International Conference (produced by the Supreme Master Ching Hai International Association), a huge element in our daily lives has flown under the radar in revolutionizing behavior to reduce our environmental impact. The SOS presentations focused on the tremendous potential of a vegetarian – better yet vegan – diet to solve the pressing issue of world hunger and reduce or even halt global warming by significantly cutting greenhouse gas emissions and reducing nonrenewable resource consumption.
A keynote speaker was the revolutionary Howard Lyman who spent 45 years running a dairy farm and cattle ranch in Montana before becoming a vegan activist and president of Voice for a Viable Future. He and Oprah were targets of an infamous lawsuit by the Cattleman’s Association after the two exposed the gruesome aspects of cattle farming. These include: animal cruelty, environmental destruction, greenhouse gas emissions (25% of total anthropogenic emissions and 65% of total methane emissions come from cattle). Add to this the facts that, as Lyman stated, “It takes 16 pounds of grain to produce one pound of beef,” the energy required to transport the refrigerated beef across the world, and the evidence for the destructiveness mounts.
Scott Badenoch, CEO of Creative Citizen, “the Wikipedia for green living,” takes a positive approach, explaining we have solutions to address vital issues, first and foremost by “going vegan.” Badenoch explained the issue of global warming as “the most dramatic plotline in the history of mankind. It means re-thinking every single thing we do in our daily lives.”suprememastertv.com
Anneliese Vandenberg is a writer, actor and model finding more trust and acceptance in her practice and wanting to create more peaceful change in the world.
By Anneliese Vandenberg
