Hello there,

Seasons Greetings and Happy New Year to you all! May those with the cowrage to address me muzzle to face look back with pride on your accomplishments of the past year. May all your wishes come true in 2022.

Moo, I love you.

Oh what a year this has been – 2021, the Year of the Cow in the Chinese zodiac. We hosted four amazing Vegan World convergences online to help accelerate the moovement. You can find all the presentation videos on the Trello board here.

The Climate Healers position paper got published in the in April 2021. It showed that the animal farming monstrosity is the leading cause of climate change, responsible for at least 87% of greenhouse gas emissions on an annual basis. 31% is from direct emissions and 56% from the opportunity cost of the reforesting and rewilding that could have happened if you humans weren’t raising and killing 84 billion land animals each year.

The paper showed that this opportunity cost is at least 34.5 billion tons of CO2 per year, almost as much as the CO2 emitted from all fossil fuel sources combined. This lower bound was derived from the CO2 embedded in the vegetation that we animals eat each year from the land.

Did you know that you feed us animals almost 5 times as much food as you humans eat? And then you squeeze out our maternal and menstrual secretions and chop us up into bits just to get a mere 15% of the food you eat.

Not so smart, is it?

No matter. You were doing it to heat the planet and prevent the Earth from going back into another ice age.

Eat animals. Chop trees. Kill life. Heat the planet.

But now it is time to stop. Pandemics, chronic diseases, tornadoes, hurricanes, wildfires, droughts, floods, polar ice melts and mass extinction should clue you in that the heating phase is over. This is not the time to look up to some political leader or billionaire businessman for techno-fixes so that you can continue with more unnecessary planetary heating while we animals suffer. If you continue, you will end up killing the planet.

Eat animals. Kill trees. Kill life. Kill the planet.

Don’t look up. Look around you, look within and see things as they are. Talk to me, Vega, the Cow in the Room. Don’t ignore me.

When you look up and see the brightest star in the sky, that is not a comet. Moo, that is me exhibiting my superpower of supersonic methane locomotion. Unlike the fictional comet Sibiaski, I’m here to help you wake up to your responsibilities as the climate regulating species of the planet. I’m not here to crash and destroy the planet.

A species that can heat the planet can just as well heal the planet.

Eat plants. Plant trees. Love life. Heal the planet.

It’s simple. It’s easy. Therefore don’t let Big Farma drain you of all hope. Don’t believe anyone who says that it’s already too late to save life on Earth. No human-made model can predict the precise dynamics of complex nonlinear feedback systems, that too something as complex as the Earth’s climate.

Anyone who pretends otherwise doesn’t know what he is moo’ing about. You know who you are. Please stop it. And while I have your attention, please stop ignoring me.

My herd, please gird your loins and get on with the healing. You begin by healing yourselves. You put on your own oxygen mask before helping others put theirs on.

Rev. Beth Love and Tami Hay of Eat for the Earth and the Million Vegan Grandmothers are conducting a marathon whole food extravaganza on New Year’s Eve here. You can get all your questions answered on how to create healthy versions of your favorite foods.

The Million Vegan Grandmothers are hosting a 30 day Rainbow Foods and Rainbow People Chakra Nutrition Support program here. Sarah Sehgal is kicking off a regular weekly distribution of healthy, immune boosting plant foods in Los Angeles on Jan 22. Every Saturday from that day forward, until we can make it happen more frequently and in more places. This is a joint project of Plant Based Treaty,  GoDharmic and Food Healers.

The objective is to make Los Angeles a hunger-free zone with healthy, nutritious plant-based foods easily available to anyone by the end of 2022. Molly Basler is running for LA City Council in District 5 based on this ambitious platform.

Moo, I’m so excited to get it done.

Please share my video with the kids in your life.

Please share this UN press conference video with the adults in your life. It shows why Big Farma’s Killing machine is the leading cause of the climate disaster and why focusing exclusively on the fossil fuel Burning machine, while ignoring me, the Cow in the Room, would be the greatest systems engineering blunder in the history of humanity.

Please read “Food is Climate,” a book by Glen Merzer explaining the science behind the Climate Healers position paper from a layperson’s perspective.

Finally, please do join us at our Vegan Convergence of the Parties #8, V-COP8 on January 29-30, 2022.

Let us heal the climate with cowrage.

Eat plants.
Plant trees.
Love animals.
Heal the planet.

Be a superhero. Join my herd. Let’s grow our moovement together.

Yours faithfully,

Vega, Cow and Climate Healer