In this episode, the panel answers audience questions about veganism as a powerful way to fight climate change.
(We’d like to open the floor again to some questions from the audience.)
(My name is Denise Martin, and I work for Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation. As you may know, we work with seriously ill children, and my concern is always for the welfare of the vulnerable and the young around the world. As this is a humanitarian question, my question is to the Supreme Master Ching Hai: Given the threat we all face, how can we bring to public awareness the plight children face, particularly in relation to diet and environment?)
Master: Ms. Martin, how are you? Thanks for the good work that you’ve been doing for these unfortunate children. Good question, good question. You see, Ms. Martin, according to all the scientific and medical evidence, most sickness comes from (animal-people) meat-eating. It’s avoidable if we follow wholesome diet of plant-based food.
If the parents are not well, then the children born will also be affected, as it has been proven through scientific and medical research. Even before they come into the world already, the children, many have been affected by the unwellness, by the disease of the parents. On SupremeMasterTV.com, there are collected facts for anyone to be informed about the detrimental effect of (animal-people) meat diet on adults and children, and fetus even, the unborn children. So we could print them out and give them to anyone who is interested in this, or who is asking such a question concerning the fetus and the babies who are born sick, or get sick from a genetic disorder.
You could print them all out, and tell them to log onto the above website themselves also for updated truths about our diet’s influence on our life and on the world. All our website information, shows, advertisements, they’re all free of charge. You are free to download any of them and use them in any way that benefits others. Thank you so much, Ms. Martin, and please send my love to all the children. (Very wise information. Thank You.)
(Hallo. My name is Nick Heyming. And I’d like to thank Supreme Master for all the work She’s done for disaster victims over the past…) You’re welcome. (I myself have volunteered after this tsunami and the Hurricane Katrina and the earthquake down in Peru. And it’s that that has led me to come and represent the Green Institute for Village Empowerment, which is giveforthefuture.org. And my question is for Mr. Galt: If we are going to be able to deal with a major threat to the global food supply, people are going to have to learn how to grow their own food again. There are many new techniques for hydroponic growing and other things people can do, even in an apartment.) That’s right. (My question is, how can we spread the word to teach people how to grow their own food, even if they live in cities or apartment buildings?)
Professor Ryan Galt: OK. And the question of growing our own food, I think we’ve seen in a lot of areas, right? We’ve seen a rebirth of urban agriculture, certainly. And also, in addition to not just growing our own food, but to relocalizing the food system, and that is to start to recognize that farmers that are near us can actually produce food just as well as we can get it from the grocery store. And so, kind of relocalizing the food system has gotten a major push, and for very good reasons; it has a number of benefits. In terms of getting information out there, in terms of how to grow our own food, I think there’s a huge amount of skill involved in growing food, from seed saving to seed selection to all sorts of other things. But now we’re actually able to share information like we never have been able to before, with the internet.
Just by watching a video on the internet, you’re not going to figure out how to grow food, but in addition to having those kinds of resources online, we also have, I would say, a retooling, if you will, of the university system to start to recognize the number of challenges that we’re facing as a society. And to start new programs in sustainable agriculture that will actually teach students how to become organic farmers or such. And so, at UC Davis, we’re starting a new Agricultural and Food System Sustainability major, in order to teach students not just about the production agriculture aside, but also food system and social issues as well.
So I think we’ll see our institutions, universities, start to equip students better in terms of growing their own food, in terms of becoming part of a relocalized food system. But also, we need to still depend on farmers, I would say. They have a huge amount of knowledge and expertise. And so, we’ll create reciprocal relationships, rather than farmers always having low prices and consumers always facing higher prices. So, we need to create those relationships as well and keep farmers around.
(Thank you, Professor. Our next question is directed to Master.)
(I want to say “Thank You very much” for Her amazing work. I’m Janice Belson. I’m the founder and director of Medicines Global, and I have the incredible opportunity of working with a lot of at-risk youths here, getting them to talk to each other. My organization is called “Medicines Global.” You can read about us at And one of the key points in our Outdoor Youth Ambassador program is diet, nutrition. And my question really is: It’s clear that we must encourage school cafeterias to help our youth enjoy a vegetarian [vegan] diet. The kids grow up eating potato chips and Coca-Cola, and they have such a very limited idea about what we’re talking about. How can we encourage those that actually supply the food to our children to help us have more vegetarian [vegan] choices? Thank You.)
Master: Thank you, Janice. Thank you. Thank you for being concerned about the health and happiness of the children. Thanks for your good heart.
It has not been very widespread, the vegan diet, I have to say. Even up to now, many people who are vegan have to be like closet-vegans, for fear of being ridiculed and mocked. Now, I have appealed to all of the vegan people to come out and try to help as much as they can, because you are the heroes of the planet. There’s no time anymore to hide or to worry about what people think about us anymore. We are good, we are good. We are noble. We have to spread the news for everybody to join the vegan circle in order to save the planet.
Janice, I think you can talk to them, and write to them, and present to them with all the scientific and medical facts about the harmful effects of (animal-people) meat-based diet and the enormous benefit of vegan diet. You tell the school to choose wisely as well with the same facts above, and pray they will change.
On the SupremeMasterTV.com, you can have all the facts you need, up to date, about the harmful effects of (animal-people) meat, scientifically. We have even all the scientists’ names and all the medical evidence that the (animal-people) meat diet harms people and gives such enormous sickness.
Now, in Slovenia even, after my visit in Slovenia, some of the Waldorf schools provide now only vegetarian meals. And other schools bring their own meals; they don’t cater (animal-people) meat anymore. So you can suggest the same to the school board of directors. Give the parents also the info, the sheets that you have printed out from anywhere on the internet or from our SupremeMasterTV.com about the harmful (animal-people) meat diet and the beneficial vegan diet, OK? Good luck and blessed be your noble endeavor, Janice. (Some excellent suggestions. Thank You, Supreme Master.) Thank you.
(Now, Tom Vennum also has a question for You, Master.) Alright. Welcome, welcome. (Thanks to the panelists for being here, and thank You, Supreme Master Ching Hai, for spreading Your love in action around the world. I would like to ask about the methane gas trapped under the permafrost layer. Could Supreme Master Ching Hai and Dr. Singh elaborate about what the research is saying and the risk to human health? Thank You.)
Master: Dr. Singh has told you a lot already, and I ask his permission to answer your question. Roughly speaking, the research shows that methane gas can cause headaches. I’m not talking about global warming and trapping heat and all that yet. Now, the methane gas can cause headaches, respiratory system and heart malfunctions, and in a more concentrated dose – death by suffocation. It is similar to carbon monoxide poisoning. It is 23 times more deadly than CO2. And (animal-people) livestock raising produces up to almost 40% of global methane gas, also accounted for 65% of global nitrous oxide, which is 310 times more lethal, more deadly than CO2 – carbon dioxide – and they remain many long, long, long years in the atmosphere.
And methane gas causes the global warming to accelerate, and in turn, the warmed-up ocean and permafrost will also release more and more methane gas, and also even hydrogen sulfide, which is credited with wiping out 90% plus living creatures in our Earth’s history in the past. So, it’s not just methane we are worried about. It’s so many gases from the ocean. And it depends on the concentration dose, just the hydrogen sulfide alone can cause irritation of different body organs: eyes, nose, throat, bronchial constriction, spontaneous abortion, impaired bodily functions, headaches, dizziness, vomiting, coughing, difficult breathing, eye damage, shock, coma, and death, etc. If the concentrated dose is high enough, like, for example, 1,000 parts per million, ppm, then even one single inhalation – one single inhalation – will cause immediately breathing stop and collapse.
So, there were some reports about animal(-people) factories in Minnesota which produce also hydrogen sulfide, that caused people in the vicinity to vomit so much that they had to flee their own homes. And you can look for articles on July 17, 2008 on the Environmental News Network. And another incident in North Carolina, in which residents from 26 counties are forced to stay indoors, as the air quality was so poor and filled with pollutants, including highly toxic gas, hydrogen sulfide from animal(-people). So, this article you can also find on the News and Observer, dated June 19, 2008. These are the recent events, and probably many more before.
I’m sure these are not single incidents concerning hydrogen sulfide produced by (animal-people) livestock raising. So, other articles by the Telegraph on December 9, 2007, on the Earth Times also reported cases of deaths in other countries due to methane and hydrogen sulfide gases. I’m sure there are more if we have time to do research on this subject. I’m sure you have more instruments to do this. The United Nations has recently offered a website concerning these matters. Maybe you could find more info there. (I’m sure we can, yes.) But that’s scary enough already, I think. (OK, thank You, Supreme Master.) You’re welcome, love.
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