97% of climate scientists agree that climate change is real and caused by human activity. As human beings on this remarkable planet, we are all connected. When the planet is sick we feel it and when human activity harms nature, it harms us too. The meat industry provides us with an intrinsically linked phenomenon of connected planetary and human health. Meat and dairy production is killing our planet at the same rate it is killing us.

Al Gore was asked why he never speaks of the fact that animal agriculture is causing approximately 18% of the gases that cause climate change, he stated “For most people, the role of animal agriculture in climate change is too inconvenient of a truth.” 1.

This isn’t good enough. This is a truth that now more than ever needs to be spread and acted upon. Is it too inconvenient for us to eat vegetarian and vegan meals more often? Animal agriculture is responsible for producing more climate change gases than every car, truck, bus, boat and plane on the planet combined.2. Meat is surely easier to give up than transport right?

But there’s another inconvenient truth that we’ve been avoiding. We don’t only have a global climate crisis, we also have a global health crisis. World health budgets are being heavily invested into curing people of diseases caused by the consumption of animal products. Meat and dairy consumption has been linked as the root source of cancer, diabetes, heart disease and obesity. 3.

Climate change is complicated and I don’t even pretend to understand most of it, but the connection between animal agriculture, our health and the planets health is so obvious. We owe it to our bodies and we owe it to the planet to eat more vegan and vegetarian meals and to lead by example to encourage others to do the same.

We have the power to shape our planet, our lives and our future for generations to come. Cook a vegan meal, share a vegan meal, post it, spread the message and make the connection. We can all make such a difference, and it’s now up to us. The truth is out!