Our
Earth has provided a home of abundance since time immemorial. As we
face the current planetary crisis, more and more people are working to
ensure her continued vitality.
In this light, 49 non-governmental
organizations (NGOs) organized an international conference on Jeju
Island in South Korea to discuss the organic
vegan diet as a solution to climate change and children’s health.
Held
on September 21, the event featured such environmental experts as Dr.
Rajendra Pachauri, Chairman of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change, and Mr. Joop Oude Lohuis, Manager of the Climate and Global
Sustainability Unit in the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency.
Also
sharing their knowledge were medical leaders that included Dr. Michael
Greger, Director of Public Health and Animal Agriculture at the Humane
Society of the United States; acclaimed physician and nutritional
expert,Dr. Joel Fuhrman; Dr. Neal Barnard, founding president of
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine; Dr. John A. McDougall,
founder and medical director of the nationally renowned McDougall
Program; and Dr. Hwang Seong-Soo, famous Korean neurosurgeon of Daegu
Medical Center.
Graciously accepting an invitation to attend via
videoconference as the event’s guest of honor was Supreme Master Ching
Hai. While offering her thoughts, she highlighted the importance of the
organic
vegan lifestyle in awakening ourselves to compassion.
Supreme Master Ching Hai:
When we live and let live, when we love all beings as if we love
ourselves, then that is already very highly spiritual. That will be very
pleasing to Heaven.
If we are in the organic vegan trend or planting organic vegan
farming method then you will feel more and more the love from nature,
the love from the planet earth, the love from the trees, the love from
even the blade of grass, from flowers.
We will feel so much love in the air that we breathe. Once we turn into a compassionate Heaven-intended lifestyle of a vegan diet then we will feel more and more love, more and more connected all the time.
VOICE: After the conference, guests expressed their enthusiasm about the organic
vegan solution in going green.
Yang Seong-Eon Superintendent, Jeju Special Self-Governing Office of Education (M): What impressed me was the fact that when we reduce
meat consumption we’ll significantly improve the environment. So in the future, we’ll be emphasizing that aspect in our education.
Yoo Tae-Woo – Director of Jeju International Lifelong Education Institute (M):
If the government, educators, politicians and NGOs work together, we
can do anything,is what occurred to me. I await the day when Jeju Island
is reborn as a
vegan city, inviting all world to come.
VOICE:
We are grateful, all NGO organizers and caring participants of this
meaningful event. We also thank Supreme Master Ching Hai for her
encouraging insights. As more and more of the world’s citizens choose
organic
vegan fare, we will surely herald a new Eden on Earth.Please tune in to Supreme Master Television’s
Words of Wisdom for the full rebroadcast of this live event at a later date, with multi-language subtitles.