Climate Healers, led by Dr. Sailesh Rao, is currently in Glasgow, Scotland at COP26, the United Nations Climate Change Conference. On the Climate Healers website, a cow says, “So much methane is being emitted that life on Earth is collapsing! Know where most of it comes from?… Me!… But I can’t help myself…
“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.”
“If grazing lands were restored to forests, that could suck up the CO2 from all our fossil fuel emissions.”
Please read more and watch the one-minute animated cow video here: Cow in the Room.
At COP26, Climate Healers is displaying four huge inflatable animals to bring attention to the primary aspects of the devastation caused by animal agriculture. A few days ago, Dr. Sailesh Rao gave a press conference, in which he said:
"We have four animals to represent all aspects of the cow in the room. To us the cow is just a symbol of all animals. She’s like the mother who has been feeding us for ten thousand years, and she’s now stepping up and saying no more milk, you have to wean yourself from me, and therefore grow up as a species, and take on your responsibilities to maintain the climate of the planet. On behalf of all life on Earth.”
Please watch his press conference here: The Cow in the Room: Address it and Thrive or Ignore it and Die. (15-minute presentation, then 15-minute Q&A)
If you are not yet vegan, please go vegan and stay vegan — to be part of the climate solution, and to be kind to the animals.
In this 1.5-minute video by Farm Sanctuary, you can see how loving cows are, and how they playfully run together just like dogs: Jerome Calf Finds Family.
All the cows should be free to live with their families. And all the turkeys, chickens, lambs, pigs, and fish should also be free to live with their own families. It is morally wrong to breed billions of feeling animals to kill them and eat them. Let’s end the killing machine and create a healthier world.
Brown cows: Sharon Co Images on Unsplash.
