Glen Merzer is a playwright, screenwriter, and author of the book Food is Climate. Food Is Climate: A Response to Al Gore, Bill Gates, Paul Hawken, and the Conventional Narrative on Climate Change.
The Climate Emergency threatens civilization. All life forms on the planet depend now on humanity to undo the harm it has done. Unfortunately, those who have been leading the charge to address climate change, such as Al Gore, have not been telling us the whole truth. They have continued to ignore its leading cause. Food Is Climate gives us hope that the crisis can be addressed–in a way that will improve human health–but only if there’s a grassroots movement to do the right thing, because clearly politicians and even environmental organizations have refused to lead.
Glen began his career as a stand-up comic in San Francisco before devoting himself to playwriting. He wrote for network television for many years before going into a career writing books that advocate the plant-exclusive diet.
Glen’s first novel, Off the Reservation, chronicles the journey of a vegan congressman from Bloomington, Indiana, who runs for president. Off the Reservation contains twenty bonus, delicious, low-fat vegan recipes by Joanna Samorow-Merzer.
Three of Glen’s plays have been published by Samuel French. His prize-winning works have entertained audiences Off-Broadway, at Regional Theatres, and at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Hope Bohanec has been active in animal protection and environmental activism for 30 years and has published the book The Ultimate Betrayal: Is There Happy Meat? The Ultimate Betrayal lifts the veil of secrecy surrounding animal farming, offering a rare look inside the world of alternative animal agriculture. People are becoming increasingly aware that farmed animals are living in misery, their physical and emotional well-being matters, and they deserve to live a happy life. Concerned consumers are discovering that animal agriculture is one of the leading contributors to climate change, fresh water scarcity, deforestation, and air pollution.
Ocean Robbins is public speaker and author of national bestseller 31-Day Food Revolution: Heal Your Body, Feel Great, and Transform Your World. In his nonjudgmental and down-to-earth way, Ocean Robbins meets you wherever you are on your personal journey with food. Then, he provides you with tools that make it easy to eat less sugar, processed foods, and unhealthy animal products-and to happily enjoy whole plant foods, and more fair trade, local, organic, and otherwise consciously sourced fare.
To Contact Ocean Robbins go to oceanrobbins.com
Dr. Will Tuttle is an award-winning speaker, educator, author, and musician. He wrote the best-selling book, World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony as well as over a dozen other books. Dr. Tuttle music, writings, and presentations focus on compassion, intuition, meditation, social justice, and creativity. A former Zen monk with a Ph.D. in education from U.C., Berkeley, he has worked extensively exploring and promoting intuition development, nonviolent living, meditation, healing music, creativity, holistic health, animal liberation, and cultural evolution.
To Contact Dr Will Tuttle go to willtuttle.com
Charles Horn is an award-winning and Emmy-nominated writer. Horn has authored Meat Logic: Why Do We Eat Animals, a book examining justifications for eating meat and other animal products. The book argues for veganism. Why do we eat animals? In Meat Logic: Why Do We Eat Animals, it examines 31 categories of rationalizations for eating animals and puts them all to the test. Do our thoughts and actions stand up to rational scrutiny or not? And if our thought process is ever failing us, can this be illuminated? Reading this book, You may never think of food the same way again.
We have all been given the gift of physical bodies that require no animal to suffer for their feeding. However, we’ve all been conditioned from infancy by our culture to reject this gift, and to unnecessarily confine, slaughter, and eat animals, and this sows the seeds of generations of misery.
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We must, if this process is actually happening in us, be drawn toward veganism, and it is in no way a limitation on us, but the harmonious fulfillment of our own inner seeing.
There are strong voices in all religious traditions emphasizing that our kindness to other beings should be based on compassion. This is more than merely being open to the suffering of others; it also explicitly includes the urge to act to relieve their suffering. We are thus responsible not just to refrain from harming animals and humans, but also to do what we can to stop others from harming them, and to create conditions that educate, inspire, and help others to live in ways that show kindness and respect for all life. This is the high purpose to which the core teachings of the world’s wisdom traditions call us. It is an evolutionary imperative, a spiritual imperative, an imperative of compassion, and, in reality, a vegan imperative.
Throughout my last tour, I heard the same question being asked over and over again about the “MedBed” narrative – so I decided to film my response and share it with all of you because of its importance!!! Only YOU can save you, and nothing and no-one can take that experience away from you.
• “Moderna is an illegal operation”: (at 7:37)
• NIH administered DARPA Bio-weapons program of $1.7B p/yr for the benefit of Moderna (at 12:00)
• Fauci’s Corruption of the Bayh-Dole Act and NIAID (at 14:32)
• “Moderna Vaccine is a Ponzi Scheme” (at 21:20)
• “Fauci is a Racketeer and a criminal” (at 21:51)
• “There will NEVER be an approval outside the EUA (emergency use authorization) for a vaccine” (at 29:00)
• “Gavin Newsom Getting paid to keep California in pain” (at 30:43)
• 2016 and March 28, 2019 Patent application says “because of the concern for a deliberate release of SARS coronavirus, vaccine development was
initiated” (at 31:52)
• 2017 Fauci says there will be “a surprise outbreak”. https://odysee.com/@thisweekinfascism:3/fauci-announces-a-surprise-outbreak
• Gain-of-Function defined and Bioweapon Connection (at 35:54)
• Obama told Fauci to stop doing Gain-of-fucntion in North Carolina. Fauci sent his scientists to Wuhan to continue. (at 37:45)
• Chinese virus was brought to University of North Carolina, modified with US tech, sent back to Wuhan lab (37:45) to create Covid19 (at 40:00)
It is well known that animal foods are heavily contaminated with viruses and bacteria such as salmonella, listeria, E. coli, campylobacter, and streptococcus, which can be harmful if not fatal to people, especially given our already overworked immune systems. The urea in animal flesh also contains toxins. It has furthermore recently been shown that cooked animal flesh contains heterocyclic amines, which are carcinogenic chemicals that form during the cooking process. Thus, by not cooking flesh enough, we may expose ourselves to salmonella, E. coli, and other pathogens, and by cooking it, we end up eating cancer-causing chemicals formed by heating the animal fat.
Looking from a variety of perspectives at our animal-based meals, we discover that eating animals has consequences far beyond what we would at first suspect. Like a little boy caught tormenting frogs, our culture mumbles, “It’s no big deal,” and looks away. And yet the repercussions of our animal-based diet are a very big deal indeed, not only for the unfortunate creatures in our hands, but for us as well. Our actions reinforce attitudes, in us and in others, that amplify the ripples of those actions until they become the devastating waves of insensitivity, conflict, injustice, brutality, disease, and exploitation that rock our world today.
Even those who acknowledge that our treatment of animals is indeed a great evil may feel that it is, like the other evils in our world, simply a product of human limitations, such as ignorance, pride, selfishness, fear, and so forth. According to this view, the horror we inflict on animals is a problem, but not a fundamental cause of our problems—and, because it’s a problem for animals, who are less important than us humans, it’s a lesser problem.
If we fail to make the connection between our daily meals and our cultural predicament, we will inevitably fail as a species to survive on this earth. By refusing to make this essential connection, we condemn others and ourselves to enormous suffering, without ever comprehending why.
We become a revolution of one, contributing to the foundation of a new world with every meal we eat. As we share our ideas with others, we promote what may be the most uplifting and healing revolution our culture has ever experienced.
The fat we carry around under our skin is mainly the fat of miserable and terrified animals—it’s not surprising we’re anxious to be rid of it! If we based our diet on the whole grains, fruits, vegetables and legumes for which we are designed, we would find the obesity problem in our culture evaporating, along with many other problems.
Perpetrators and victims are known to exchange roles over and over again in countless subtle and obvious ways. The cycle of violence may span larger dimensions than we in our herding culture would like to admit, and there are many wisdom traditions that affirm that it does. Until we see from the highest level, we had best heed the counsel of every enlightened spiritual teacher from every time: be ye kind to one another.
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We must, if this process is actually happening in us, be drawn toward veganism, and it is in no way a limitation on us, but the harmonious fulfillment of our own inner seeing.
There are strong voices in all religious traditions emphasizing that our kindness to other beings should be based on compassion. This is more than merely being open to the suffering of others; it also explicitly includes the urge to act to relieve their suffering. We are thus responsible not just to refrain from harming animals and humans, but also to do what we can to stop others from harming them, and to create conditions that educate, inspire, and help others to live in ways that show kindness and respect for all life. This is the high purpose to which the core teachings of the world’s wisdom traditions call us. It is an evolutionary imperative, a spiritual imperative, an imperative of compassion, and, in reality, a vegan imperative.
Jeffrey Smith delivers transformational communication on a global scale. A bestselling author, award-winning filmmaker, celebrated public speaker, and penetrating interviewer, his work has influenced the behavior and health of millions of people worldwide.
Jeffrey was the architect of a successful plan to achieve the tipping point of consumer rejection of genetically engineered foods. The majority of Americans now understand that GMOs are unsafe, and the food industry is responding by removing them.
His global bestseller, Seeds of Deception, ignited the anti-GMO movement by exposing industry and government lies about GMO safety. In the book Genetic Roulette, he organized the science behind GMO health risks in a unique, easy-to-digest format, prompting one reviewer to write, “Smith has to be the best science communicator alive today.”
Over 25 years, Jeffrey gave 1,000 lectures and 1,000 interviews in 45 countries, trained 1,500 speakers, organized over 10,000 grassroots activists, and appeared in top news outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time Magazine, The Doctors, and The Dr. Oz Show. He introduced the science on GMOs to medical communities worldwide, inspiring thousands of practitioners to prescribe non-GMO and organic diets.
Many of them recommend his most recent documentary, Secret Ingredients, (co-directed with Amy Hart) which features emotional stories of families who recover from serious diseases after switching to organic food. The film links GMOs and Roundup herbicide to cancer, infertility, autism, Alzheimer’s, allergies, skin conditions, digestive disorders, and other health conditions, and motivates viewers to increase their commitment to organic.
Jeffrey is the founding executive director of the Institute for Responsible Technology and the founder of the Protect Nature Now movement to safeguard the global microbiome.
He is the creator of the Healing from GMOs and Roundup summit, the 90 Day Lifestyle Upgrade, GMO Speaker Training, and A Magnificent New Normal. Jeffrey is sought after as an inspirational keynote speaker and hosts the Live Healthy Be Well podcast.
His numerous awards include “Person of the Year” (Masters of Health Magazine)
“Environmental Medicine Award” (American Academy of Environmental Medicine).
His film Genetic Roulette was awarded Movie of the Year (Solari Report), and Transformational Film of the Year (AwareGuide).
To Contact Jeffrey Smith go to: ResponsibleTechnology.org
The other day I was watching an old interview on YouTube of one of my favourite people: the late American writer, Gore Vidal.
The funny thing is, that during the breaks in this interview, they showed TV commercials that were on national television at the time it was broadcast back in 1990.
And I was shocked by what I saw.
Amongst the various ads, they showed a TV advert for the American Cancer Society, in which a doctor… wait for it… told us that we can prevent 60% of cancers if we (among other things) stop smoking, stop “overeating”, and eat a diet high in fibre and low in fat!
Wow! Did a doctor just say: stop overeating to prevent cancer? Yes, he did!
If you were around in 1990, as I was, this advert wouldn’t be out of place, because we knew that overeating leads to disease, as does a high-fat diet.
If anything, all the scientific data on diet that has been produced in the more than 30 years since this ad was originally shown has only reinforced the fact that overeating and high-fat diets are very likely to cause cancer.
The shocking aspect of this story is that YOU WILL NEVER SEE A TV COMMERCIAL LIKE THIS TODAY, because to do so would be to accuse this doctor of fat shaming – as ridiculous and laughable as that sounds, it is the sad state of the world we live in today.
Hearing a doctor promote a low-fat diet on national TV is also NOT GOOD NEWS FOR ALL THE BIG JUNK FOOD COMPANIES IN THE WORLD – and there are a lot of them, with a lot of lobbying power.
And let’s not forget the fact that no corporate-owned TV channel (which is most of them these days) is likely to accept running an ad like this that discourages eating junk food, thus discouraging the likes of Nestle, PepsiCo, and others from advertising.
And what about Big Pharma? Promoting cancer prevention through lifestyle changes is all well and good, but IT DOESN’T MAKE THEM ANY MONEY BECAUSE THE LESS SICK PEOPLE ARE, THE FEWER DRUGS THEY SELL. So, the truth is that Big Pharma wouldn’t encourage doctors to promote this type of message today either.
This example clearly shows how large corporations, together with corrupt politicians and powerful individuals, are now effectively changing the nutritional message and negatively affecting the quality of life of everyone in the world.
And let’s not forget those ill-informed nutritionists, dieticians, gym instructors, health gurus, and wild Instagram and TikTok “influencers”, who keep telling us that a high-fat diet is healthy? When compared to this TV advert from 1990, they look really ignorant and stupid, don’t they? Because they are!
I was so thrilled to find this lost ad that I extracted it from the original video and uploaded it to my new (not yet officially launched) YouTube channel, so you can see it and judge for yourself how much the Establishment’s nutritional message has changed since 1990.
By watching this short 30-second advert, I hope it is very clear to you that following a high-fibre (ideally fruit), low-fat diet is the ONLY healthy way forward; which is the same message I have been repeating for the last 10 years since I launched my website, although I feel I am going against the grain, as they say, from what most people think about nutrition these days.
We grow to appreciate the nearly miraculous beauty of cabbages and cauliflower, the fragrance of roasted sesame seeds, sliced oranges, chopped cilantro, and baked kabocha squash, and the wondrous textures of avocado, persimmon, steamed quinoa, and sautéed tempeh. We are grateful for the connection we feel with the earth, the clouds, the nurturing gardeners, and the seasons, and the tastes are delicious gifts we naturally enjoy opening to, as we would open to our beloved in making love and appreciating the beloved fully. In contrast, eating animal foods is often done quickly, without feeling deeply into the source of the food—for who would want to contemplate the utter hells that produce our factory-farmed fish, chicken, eggs, cheese, steaks, bacon, hot dogs, or burgers?
When we contemplate our tastes, we can see how conditioned they actually are. More importantly, though, we can see how utterly unsupportable they are as reasons to commit violence against defenseless, feeling beings. Self-centered craving for pleasure and fulfillment at the expense of others is the antithesis of the Golden Rule and of every standard of morality.
Since our culture denies animals used for food any inherent value in their own right, limiting their worth simply to their value as commodities to those who own them, animals have no protection. Ordering a steak earns us approving nods, and our friends rave over the barbecued ribs at the office picnic. The actual confinement, raping, mutilating, and killing are kept carefully hidden as shameful secrets that would make us profoundly uncomfortable if we had to witness them or, worse, perform them ourselves.
We can see that the three reasons that we eat animal foods—infant indoctrination, social and market pressure, and taste—reinforce each other and create a force field around our food choices that, like a sturdy fortress, resists any incursions. The walls of the fortress are built of cruelty, denial, ignorance, force, conditioning, and selfishness. Most importantly, they are not of our choosing. They have been, and are being, forced upon us. Our well-being—and our survival—depend on our seeing this clearly and throwing off our chains of domination and unawareness. By harming and exploiting billions of animals, we confine ourselves spiritually, morally, emotionally, and cognitively, and blind ourselves to the poignant, heart-touching beauty of nature, animals, and each other.
To be free, we must practice freeing others. To feel loved, we must practice loving others. To have true self-respect, we must respect others. The animals and other voiceless beings, the starving humans and future generations, are pleading with us to see: it’s on our plate.
Ending obesity will remain difficult, mysterious, complex, and a losing battle as long as we continue to eat diets rich in high-fat animal flesh, eggs, and dairy products.
Albert Einstein was correct in saying that no problem can be solved at the level on which it was created. As omnivores, we must go to another level to solve our problem with excess fat, a level where we no longer kill and confine animals by proxy and consume their fat-laden remains.
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We must, if this process is actually happening in us, be drawn toward veganism, and it is in no way a limitation on us, but the harmonious fulfillment of our own inner seeing.
There are strong voices in all religious traditions emphasizing that our kindness to other beings should be based on compassion. This is more than merely being open to the suffering of others; it also explicitly includes the urge to act to relieve their suffering. We are thus responsible not just to refrain from harming animals and humans, but also to do what we can to stop others from harming them, and to create conditions that educate, inspire, and help others to live in ways that show kindness and respect for all life. This is the high purpose to which the core teachings of the world’s wisdom traditions call us. It is an evolutionary imperative, a spiritual imperative, an imperative of compassion, and, in reality, a vegan imperative.
TODAY’S VIDEO: Today we go through the most frequently used arguments against vegans, including: 👉 It’s my personal choice to eat animal products. 👉 Animals taste good. 👉 Farmed animals can live a good life. 👉 Animals are killed humanely. 👉 Lions eat meat. 👉 We’ve eaten meat for thousands of years. 👉 Eating animal products is legal. 👉 We need to eat animal products for nutrients. 👉 Animals are bred to be killed. 👉 Plants are alive too. 👉 It’s cultural and traditional to eat animals. 👉 We’re more intelligent than animals. 👉 We’re top of the food chain. 👉 What about human rights? 👉 Veganism isn’t perfect.
📚 For more excuses and responses, head to https://earthlinged.org/ebook to download my entirely free e-book ‘30 Non-Vegan Excuses and How to Respond to Them’ or follow the link in my bio.
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