This group has an idea to help save the planet: Everyone should go vegan

[livingston]

This group has an idea to help save the planet: Everyone should go vegan​

One group says there's a straightforward way to make big progress in the fight against climate change: Everyone, everywhere should just stop eating meat. And all animal products.

The "Plant-Based Treaty," first proposed in 2021, is a self-described "global movement that seeks to restructure the entire planet's food production systems away from animal agriculture."

The group released its "Safe and Just" report at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai earlier this month. The report featured some of the best practices being rolled out by climate leaders such as New York City, where Mayor Eric Adams has made vegan the default in hospital menus and introduced "Meat Free Mondays" and "Plant-Powered Fridays" in schools.

This group has an idea to help save the planet: Everyone should go vegan

The idea: the world could combat human-caused climate change by going vegan, a diet that emits less greenhouse gases than animal-based ones.

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[livingston]

The Plant Based Treaty’s Vegan Donut Economics Approach to the Food System
The Safe and Just report shines a light on the urgency of addressing the transgression of planetary boundaries beyond the critical climate crisis, and raising the alarm bell on interrelated tipping points. We are on track for a breakdown of Earth’s systems and societies unless bold action is taken on food systems. The devastating and even apocalyptic impact of animal agriculture on Earth’s planetary boundaries, from land-use changes, ocean dead zones, incessant heat waves and melting ice caps, to scorching forest fires, requires comprehensive solutions for shifting to plant-based diets, addressing food justice, and rewilding the Earth. By embracing the vegan donut economics framework, we utilise an ethical, scientific and socio-economic systems approach to connect the scientific mandate to act with the Plant Based Treaty’s forward-thinking principles, policies, and detailed proposals, focusing on a just transition that includes everyone.

Animal agriculture is a major contributor to the climate crisis​

Addressing fossil fuels alone is not enough — we need action on food systems too; that’s where the Plant Based Treaty comes in. The three main greenhouse gases — carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide are at record levels and rapidly accelerating; animal agriculture contributes to all three but is the main driver of methane and nitrous oxide emissions globally.
Adopting a vegan diet is the single biggest action a person can take for the planet and the IPCC agrees that a shift towards plant-based diets can significantly reduce food related greenhouse gas emissions. An Oxford University study calculated that large changes in the food system would be necessary, that is, everyone adopting a plant-based diet on a global scale, to reduce food emissions as much as 70%.

Why do we need a Plant Based Treaty? - Plant Based Treaty

Why Plant Based Treaty? Animal agriculture is a major contributor to the climate crisis There is a climate, ocean and biodiversity crisis. Fossil fuels and animal agriculture are the driving force behind runaway global warming as well as extensive biodiversity loss, large-scale deforestation...

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[Saltwater60]

Wait I thought farming was bad too. All the land and fertilizer is bad. Tilling land releases stored carbon. Where will we get all the top soil and how about the soil run off. I don’t even think this is possible not to mention I will not comply. I won’t give up my steak and pork chops for anything.