“A moment comes but rarely in history when we step out from the old to the new” – Jawaharlal Nehru.

Dear Climate Healers Family,

V-COP23 Update

The Vegan Convergence Of the Peoples #23 (V-COP23) happened and what a powerful convergence it was! Thank you to everyone who attended, volunteered, facilitated, spoke, listened, challenged, envisioned and showed up fully! You embody the moral imagination and the courage that our beautiful planet urgently needs today.

We drafted a Planet B proclamation and signed a one-page version of it. We honored a legend, Jay Dinshah, who shaped our movement in its early stages. We were inspired by over 25 project pitches that showed the depth and breadth of the amazing movement that we call our own.

We heard from a diverse range of speakers all echoing one truth: our planet needs a new story rooted in nonviolence and reverence for all life.

From the grassroots to the global, we reaffirmed our collective commitment to achieving a Vegan World by 2026, not in our dreams, but as a practical, necessary transformation of our food systems, economies and relationships with all life, as a rational response to the planetary boundary transgressions that the world urgently needs to address.

Yet, the greatest transformation in human history has just begun. All the project pitches at V-COP23 were so good, that we would like to take the opportunity to push them all forward. We have compiled all the projects in a spreadsheet and we invite the project leads to fill in the details on the tasks they need support on for completing their projects. If any project lead needs help with this, please contact one of us.

Once the task lists are filled out, we will invite everyone to go through the open tasks and assign themselves by sharing name and contact. Please see details on intro page of spreadsheet.

The raw videos for V-COP23 are here:
Day 1 video: https://youtu.be/kLvc0TDwmcA
Day 2 video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiEKZyckFsU

The team is working on editing the individual sessions and aim to complete them by the end of this week.

The Activating Planet B presentation slides can be downloaded as a PDF file here.

Let’s keep the momentum going!

MVG: BabyLat & the Future of Human-Milk-Only Care for Preterm Babies


Wednesday, Nov 12, 8:00 AM Pacific
(11:00 AM Eastern · 4:00 PM UK · 5:00 PM CET)
Featuring: Dr. Zina Yudina, Founder & CEO of BabyLat
Where: Zoom Join at: https://climatehealers.org/convergence

Join The Million Vegan Grandmothers for an inspiring conversation about the importance of keeping preterm nutrition fully human-milk–based—without cow’s milk additives—and how this connects to our broader vision of honoring the mother–child bond across all species.

TOPICS OF DISCUSSION

1. Human-Milk–Only Innovation for Preterm Babies
Dr. Zina Yudina of BabyLat will share groundbreaking work in human-milk-based nutrition that makes it possible for preterm babies to thrive without any cow’s milk fortifiers. Learn how this technology centers compassion, ethics, and maternal connection.

2. The Dream of Universal Maternal Freedom: International Calf & Cow Mother’s Day 2026
We dream of a world where every baby is free to suckle at their mother’s breast—human or otherwise. The mother-child bond is sacred, and yet examples of its brutal and systematic severance abound, from the theft of Indigenous children by residential schools to the dairy industry’s appropriation of mother’s milk meant for calves. On a daily basis, over a million newborn calves are permanently separated from their mothers, who can only echo their baby’s cries.

The Million Vegan Grandmothers are creating a movement to heal that rupture. On Mother’s Day weekend 2026, we will host the first International Calf & Cow Mother’s Day, a ritual of remembrance, education, and celebration honoring mothers of all species.

How You Can Help
1 Community Art Website:
 We invite individuals, schools, and communities to co-create art—murals, songs, films, and visual pieces—for our new online gallery. Some of that art will be printed on Mother’s Day cards, profits from the sale of which will be donated to animal sanctuaries.

2 Recipe Book: The Milk of Human Kindness
Share your favorite plant-based, comfort-food recipes along with a family memory, essay, or short video. Unlike conventional cookbooks, meals from this compassionate compendium will comfort not just humans but non-humans, and fill both the belly and the heart. Proceeds will go to supporting animal sanctuaries.

3 Mother’s Day Toolkits & Events:
 Host an event in your area or help us to design an event toolkit. Local events will include: plant-based Mother’s Day brunches and picnics; art shows; storytelling circles; and animal-sanctuary visits. We are seeking musicians, filmmakers, funders, and restaurant owners to join us in honoring all mothers through creative collaboration and celebration.

Together, we can expand the meaning of motherhood—across cultures and species—and replace cruel dairy with the milk of human kindness.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dr. Zina Yudina, PhD is a molecular biologist, biochemist, and founder/CEO of BabyLat AG (Bern, Switzerland). Her work focuses on making human-milk-origin fortification practical, ethical, and accessible.

ABOUT BABYLAT (In Brief)
• What it is: The first automated tabletop device that enriches protein and fat fractions directly from human milk.
• How it works: Enriched fractions are added back to milk for preterm nutrition—no additives, no cow’s milk.
• Benefits:
◦ Personalized, on-site, ethical human-milk fortification
◦ Faster, simpler, and lower-cost enrichment
◦ Supports WHO guidelines for human-milk feeding

EVENT DETAILS
Date: Wednesday, November 12
Time: 8:00–9:15 AM Pacific
Join at: https://climatehealers.org/convergence

TAKE ACTION
• Attend the session and share it widely.
• Contribute to the Milk of Human Kindness cookbook.
• Join our International Calf & Cow Mother’s Day project.

With much love,