An animal right activist, Anita Krajnc together with other environmental and animal rights campaigners have launched an international campaign to push world leaders to negotiate a proposed Plant Based Treaty to begin the transition to food systems based exclusively on plants.
The international campaign is an effort to stop, what the environmental and animal rights campaigners believe is, the negative influence of meat, dairy, and egg farming on the world’s climate owing to carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide emissions. This because experts are of the view that methane reduction is probably the only way of avoiding temperature rises above 1.5 C, and the biggest opportunity to slow warming between now and 2040.”
Events scheduled to support the Plant Based Treaty on Aug. 31 will be held in about 100 city or town halls throughout the world, ranging from India and the United Kingdom to at least nine places in Canada. The plant-based treaty campaign aims to make people aware of how diets involving meat are contributing to climate change.
According to the Executive Director of the Animal Save Movement, one of the founders of the Toronto Pig Save, and the Global Campaign Coordinator, Anita Krajnc, Plant Based Treaty campaign is urging national governments to begin discussions based on three fundamental principles, namely; surrender, redirect, and restore.
Successively, she expatiated these principles seriatim by indicating primarily that there should be no new deforestation or ecosystem destruction to expand animal agriculture, no new slaughterhouses and so forth. She added that there should be the redirection from animal agriculture to plant-based food systems as well as reforest the Earth.
She further indicated that the recent wildfires that ravaged Lytton, B.C., as well as heat waves and drought that afflicted producers in Western Canada, are reasons why people can no longer ignore climate change.
She dreads the collapse of the agriculture sector of the world if nothing is immediately done about the crisis. She further explained, “I think we’re talking about you and I, like our own lifetimes, are going to see more climate catastrophes and extreme weather, and that’s what was predicted.’’
The goal of the international campaign is to persuade “10 million individuals, 10,000 organizations, 10,000 enterprises, and 50 cities to support the treaty by 2023, ahead of the global stocktake of the Paris Agreement.” The stocktake is a method of assessing how far the world has progressed toward the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement.
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