“People are dying from Climate Change in Africa”

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 proposed United Nations Against Speciesism.  This would provide protection and justice to all species, not just humans.

“It’s a radical approach”, Sharon Wallenberg, founder of Vegan International told Ambassador Inga King of St. Vincent and the Grenadines at their meeting describing the proposed UN Convention Against Speciesism.  Small Island Nations are particularly vulnerable to the rising waters from melting polar ice caps.   Methane produced by the nine billion animals murdered yearly is the main cause of the rising temperatures.

Ambassador Mohammad Edrees of Egypt mentioned, “End Communicable Diseases – ‘ECD’ in comparison to Wallenberg’s proposed UN Convention Against Speciesism.  According to Edrees, the former initiative was destroyed by the pharmaceutical industry.  He expressed concern that it would happen to the proposed Convention Against Speciesism.  Those industries negatively effected by the proposed Convention Against Speciesism will no doubt retaliate and attempt to destroy it.

Ambassador Yabou from the Gambia has sent the proposed Convention Against Speciesism to his legal department for review.  The Gambia is interested in the Convention for a number of reasons, among them concern about the rising health care costs associated with the meat and dairy based diet.

In all, Vegan International Founder, Sharon Wallenberg, has met with 17 United Nations Ambassadors or their Representatives to present the concept of a United Nations Convention against Speciesism.  The Ambassadors then relay the information to their respective Governments for internal consultations.  Many of these nations have expressed interest in the idea. 

In addition, Vegan International has established their own Legal Advisors.  Retired New York State Supreme Court Justice Ira J. Raab has accepted Vegan International’s invitation to join as a Legal Advisor and is reviewing the proposed Convention in relation to International Law. 

World War II Nuremberg Court Judge Benjamin Ferencz was personally invited by Wallenberg to join Vegan International’s Legal Advisors.  At age 100, Ferencz is phenomenally busy.  He declined, but suggested his daughter, Nina, who is also a Lawyer, and sensitive to animal issues, for the opportunity.

The new year, 2020, promises many new innovations, and it is hoped that Vegan International’s proposed United Nations Convention Against Speciesism will be one of them.  Please support Vegan International.  Thank you.