The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s report in 2006 stated that the
meat and dairy industries are among the major causes of “the world’s most pressing environmental problems.”
Since the publishing of this report, the toll of livestock production has only worsened.
Direct
and indirect greenhouse gas emissions have been newly assessed to be at
least 51 percent, while livestock-related harms have increased,
including land degradation, ocean dead zones, air and water pollution,
and loss of biodiversity.
For humans, this presents multiple
threats to survival, as rising temperatures due to the livestock
industry also strengthen deadly weather extremes.
At the recent
climate change conference hosted by the government of Indonesia in the
capital city of Jakarta, honored guest Supreme Master Ching Hai
emphasized our need to avoid any further increase of such negative
consequences.
Supreme Master Ching Hai: It’s not
just the earthquakes,
it’s not just the tsunami,
it’s not just the typhoon,
it’s not just the cyclone,
it’s the rising sea levels as well which forces
people to lose their ancestral homes, to go begging elsewhere.
Losing also their dignity,
the power to take care
of their own family,
losing their grace,
losing their status of the caretaker of the family,
losing everything - not just physical possession,
losing their loved ones as well.
And such extreme weather patterns that include extensive flooding along with prolonged droughts.
It’s easy to see the many forms of environmental harm that are linked to this killing industry, which we call meat consumerism. If we still really want stop all this loss and suffering we must all become vegan to save the world.
Furthermore,
the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, John Holmes,
stated that 99 percent of the people who lose their lives due to natural
disasters are in Asia, including Indonesia.
And how many more are we bound to lose if we don’t change on time. What are we waiting for?
VOICE: Conference participants responded to Supreme Master Ching Hai’s discussions.
Conference participant (F): What
has been conveyed by Supreme Master Ching Hai is an analysis review
during this time. We have experienced many disasters and actually it's
true; it is caused by ourselves, caused by our
meat consumption. If we follow [the
vegetarian diet] maybe the world will be safer because there are no calamities.
Conference participant (F): I'm very inspired by what Master Ching Hai said, her way to motivate people to be a
vegan, and then reducing the greenhouse gas emissions and all the bad methane effects to our planet, simply by turning to be a
vegan.
VOICE:
We appreciate the support of the Indonesian government and all esteemed
conference participants, and thank Supreme Master Ching Hai for her
great concern and insights about the planet.
May we work together to create a constructive
vegan
world so that the next generations will have a safe, peaceful and happy
future.Please tune in to Supreme Master Television’s Words of Wisdom
for the full rebroadcast of this live event at a later date, with
multi-language subtitles.
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