Everything You Need to Know About Veganism in 2020
Plant Based News (PBN) annual documentary “Vegan 2020” showcasing how health, environmental, and ethical awareness growth around the globe.
When John Parker from the Economist declared 2019 the “Year of the Vegan” to indicate an increase in vegan product launches and lifestyle choices he couldn’t have predicted that 2020 would trump those numbers by a landslide. The constant bombardment with news about the Coronavirus and its roots in the wet markets in China made people rethink their food choices. With more time to cook healthier, at-home meals helped to contribute to a general shift in animal welfare awareness.
This passing year and the ongoing pandemic have given great momentum to the vegan lifestyle. The magnitude of this boost is beautifully explained in Plant Based News (PBN) annual documentary “Vegan 2020” showcasing health, environmental, and ethical awareness growth around the globe. These documentaries have been produced with growing success since 2015.
“What is exciting is that due to COVID-19, we feel that this year’s documentary would be unique – and considerably more exciting than previous years. Vegan 2020 aims to weave together the biggest events of the year in a powerful way that places the spotlight on topics not covered significantly in the past, such as pandemic risk and antibiotic resistance.”
- Klaus Mitchell, PBN founder and Director of the Vegan series.
Highlights this year are interviews with prolific figures within the movement, including advocate Earthling Ed, philanthropist and PBN investor Prince Khalid, and Emmy-winning journalist Jane Velez-Mitchell among others.
He Told You So!
The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic has caused confusion, fear, economic uncertainty, widespread illness and death. For most of us, these are unprecedented times.
The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic has caused confusion, fear, economic uncertainty, widespread illness and death. For most of us, these are unprecedented times. This contagion even eclipses the SARS outbreak of 2003 or the recent Ebola outbreaks in West Africa. This topic dominates both mainstream and social media and has had a direct impact on each of the 7.7 billion human beings on this planet.
If you have spent anytime on social media in the last couple of weeks, it seems there is no other news. You may have also noticed conspiracy theories abound about COVID-19 from it being a ‘man-made bio-weapon’ to ‘Hollywood elites operating pedophile rings fearing impending arrest have helped to spread this virus to distract authorities’ to ‘5G wireless being the cause of COVID-19’ (we’re not making this stuff up!). Lunacy aside, what is happening is very much a teachable moment.
We have seen in the last 20 years a concerning spike in the frequency and lethality of localized, regional and global pathogens infecting and killing many people. All of these pathogens have started either from factory farmed animals or wild animals caught, traded and slaughtered for human consumption and commerce. When one considers the implication of animal agriculture on the climate, the diseases caused by excessive consumption of animal protein, fat and cholesterol and the far-reaching threats caused by pandemics, it would truly be negligent, even criminal, to continue to ignore all these warning signs as it relates to our treatment of non-human animals. In other words, we do these things at our own peril and all life on this planet. This is not hyperbole - this is a wake up call.
In 2008, Dr. Michael Greger, of Nutrition Facts, a physician, speaker, New York Times Best Selling author of How Not To Die and graduate of Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Tufts University School of Medicine, posted a video on “Pandemics: History & Prevention”. It is one of the most prophetic lectures in circulation. We would encourage anyone who finds this page to watch this video in its entirety. It is 1 hour and well worth the watch. Your life, literally, may depend on it.
Nigel Osborne is the Executive Dir. of Egg-Truth. Nigel has years of experience related to animal rights and on-line advocacy. Through Egg-Truth.com and it's social media channels, Nigel seeks to increase awareness among the public about global egg production, expose the conditions for the billions of hens condemned to laying every year, and reveal the true impact of egg consumption on human health.