Dear David Leonhardt and The New York Times Morning Briefing Team,
A critical question for 2022 is whether The New York Times is going to be a leader or a follower in terms of ethics regarding climate change, human health, and morality issues with respect to the non-human animals.
In your Morning Briefings in 2021 you occasionally mentioned vegan recipes, but I believe 2022 will require you to embrace veganism if you want to get ahead of the curve of what’s happening in America and in the world.
For an example of the shift ahead, check out this new documentary, They’re Trying to Kill Us, from Executive Producers Chris Paul and Billie Eilish. Filmmakers John Lewis and Keegan Kuhn interview influencers from the fields of Hip-hop, medicine, sports, entertainment, policy, and politics about “the singular most deadly threat to American society that mainstream media doesn’t want to talk about.”
Among those featured in the film: Brenda Sanders, a food justice activist who works to bring healthy food to low-income communities in Baltimore City, and Neal Barnard, MD, President of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. Regarding reversing diabetes with the vegan diet, Dr. Barnard aptly states, “Diabetes is not a Metformin deficiency.”
For information on medical doctors in India who are successfully reversing diabetes with the vegan diet, please read my post “Diabetes Was One of Many Diseases in the Pre-Vegan World.”
I predict that this film, They’re Trying to Kill Us, will be at the top of the Top Ten Most Important Films of the Raging Twenties. It will be a true game changer, inspiring the masses to make the shift and join the green vegan revolution.
Many people are making the shift to veganism to improve their health (including Eric Adams and his mother), and also because they care about the suffering of the non-human animals. And, veganism addresses the “Cow in the Room,” which Dr. Sailesh Rao is exposing through his organization Climate Healers. Listen to his press conference at COP26: “The Cow in the Room: Address it and Thrive or Ignore it and Die.” On his website, the Cow in the Room says:
“It’s not my fault, it’s yours. I naturally emit methane from both ends and always will. The real problem is the sheer number of us cows that you’ve put on the planet just to make your burgers. A billion cows, at least. That’s a lot of methane. You’re putting us in an impossible situation, if you weren’t intensively farming us animals, forcing us to over-graze and destroy plant life, the saved vegetation would sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, re-wild the planet and reverse climate change. Animal agriculture is the cow in the room, it’s time to address it. Now.”
So, good people of The New York Times Morning Briefing Team, in 2022 I invite you to make the shift to veganism ahead of the rest of society. Get ahead of the curve, take responsibility, and embrace ethics. Please watch They’re Trying to Kill Us, and get inspired for the shift ahead!
Thank you for all of your good works, and thank you for considering my suggestions.
Sincerely,
Teja Ray Shankara
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