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Spring 2021 This is according to United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres in a speech given recently at Columbia University, New York.  According to Guterres, ‘Humanity is waging war on nature, and nature always strikes back.  It is already doing so with growing force and fury.  In addition, the fallout of the assault on our…

Winter 2021 No one can argue with the ideas discussed in the Climate Ambition Summit, five years after the Paris Agreement.  Coal consumption needs to be cut, dependence on fossil fuel needs to end, solar, wind, and hydro energy need to be promoted.  BUT THE SINGLE GREATEST CONTRIBUTOR TO CLIMATE CHANGE, METHANE FROM ANIMALS RAISED…

Autumn 2020 Covid-19 originated in a “Wet Market”, a place where individuals of another species are murdered for the profit of the human species.  This resulted in Covid-19, a zoonotic disease.  Zoonotic disease is the cause of many worldwide epidemics and pandemics including HIV AIDS, Ebola, SARS, MERS, Black Flu, Spanish Flu, Avian Flu, Swine…

Summer 2020 Zoonotic diseases, the cause of most epidemics and pandemics, are caused by human – animal interaction.  Globally, many of the most serious infectious diseases are zoonotic, causing an estimated 3 million human deaths per year before the current Covid-19 pandemic.  A zoonotic disease is caused by a pathogen that jumps, or “spills over”,…

Spring 2020 Expectations were high at the start of 2020.  It started out full of promise, but now less than halfway through the year, there are currently more than 400,000 cases worldwide – in almost every country of the world – from the new corona virus pandemic.  The disease now named Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) is…

Winter 2020 This was a comment from Minister Kaouthar Chelbi before the meeting of Tunisian Ambassador Moncef Baati with Sharon Wallenberg, Founder of Vegan International. The meeting was a discussion of an innovative way to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): reduce climate change, pollution, hunger, species extinction, and others.  This new initiative is a…

Autumn 2019 United Nations Ambassador Ambroisine Kpongo of Central African Republic agreed to initiate a United Nations Convention Against Speciesism at a meeting with Vegan International Founder, Sharon Wallenberg, in New York on Wednesday, October 9, 2019.  Ambassador Kpongo has suggested contacting other African Nations using her name to gather additional support for the U…

Summer 2019 Unfortunately, not all the oppressed are in the position to demand their freedom or rights.  Sometimes it must be done on their behalf as in President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation which ultimately ended slavery.  Vegan International has initiated a United Nations Convention Against Speciesism on behalf of all the abused, victimized, and exploited…

Spring 2019 Vegan International is pleased to announce its new Worldwide Advisory Board Members, including one very special addition.  They are: Dr. Nandita Shah, India; Anita Kranjnc, Ph.D., Canada; and 269, Israel. In addition, future activities of Vegan International include working towards initiating a United Nations Convention Against Speciesism. New Vegan International Worldwide Advisory Board…

Winter 2019 There is a direct relationship between climate change, human health, hunger, sustainable use of resources, pollution, and the exploitation of sentient beings.  To protect the defenseless, and reverse the damage this exploitation is causing, there needs to be a United Nations Convention Against Speciesism. International law has been a primary concern of the…