Dear Al Gore/Staff~
I was surprised that in your latest documentary "An
Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power"
you barely mentioned the connection
between the environment and what we eat.
My heart (or is it my stomach?) sinks when I see this lost
opportunity, but I'm witnessing this strange silence more and more now.
It was ironic that the vegan and vegetarians attendees in Paris at the COP 21 had trouble finding
anything to eat--either because the host chefs didn't consider them or because
they underestimated the number of environment-conscious attendees. (I later read that they had made 30% of their
food vegetarian.)
There was advance information about the COP 23 in Bonn,
Germany, saying that 60% of the food served would be vegetarian, but in
newspaper articles I couldn't find any speaker urging people to move towards a plant-based
diet. Even Arnold Schwarzenegger, who urged
eating less meat at COP 21 in Paris in 2015, left that out of his talk this
year.
Yet in Germany, the minister of the environment said they
would not serve meat or dairy at official dinners. That's leadership!
Can you make a statement to support plant-based diets, or is
that too politically sensitive an issue?
If you can't or if you don't want to, I'd like to know why.
Respectfully,
Tina Martin
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