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Celebrating Two Icons of our Movement: Judy Carman and John McDougall

From Sailesh Rao, ClimateHealers.org
July 2024

When there is such a dearth of leadership from the political class, we celebrate extraordinary citizen icons who rise up from the grassroots to lead action on behalf of all life.

Leadership abhors a vacuum.

In December 2023, over 200 health journals called on the United Nations (UN), political leaders and health professionals to recognize that the myriad environmental crises we face today are truly one indivisible crisis and must be tackled together to preserve health and avoid catastrophe. They declared that this overall environmental crisis is now so severe as to be a global health emergency.

This declaration mostly fell on deaf ears in national capitals around the world. Denmark was the only country to do something as it legislated a tax of $100 per year per cow, but deferred it to start in 2030. Even in Denmark, there is no sense of urgency unlike the UN Climate Chief, Simon Stiell, who warned that we have “only two years left to save the planet.”

Perhaps, it is naive to expect political leaders to take action on our existential crisis since these are the same political leaders who let 800 million people starve worldwide, even though they are able to feed 92 billion land animals and slaughter them annually. As a result, 8 million people die from hunger or hunger related causes each year.

On the watch of our political leaders, poor diets engineered through false education and perverse government subsidies kill another 15 million people from chronic diseases annually. Our political leaders haven’t addressed this ongoing carnage either.

When there is such a dearth of leadership from the political class, we celebrate extraordinary citizen icons who rise up from the grassroots to lead action on behalf of all life.

Saturday, Jun 22, 2024, was a pivotal day in the lives of two such icons of our movement. At the Baker Wetlands Exploration Center in Lawrence, Kansas, we celebrated a surprise 80th birthday party for Judy McCoy Carman, an icon of our movement and author of “Homo Ahimsa: Who we Really are and how we are going to save the world”, “The Missing Peace: The hidden power of our kinship with animals,” “Peace to All Beings: Veggie Soup for the Chicken’s Soul,” and “Born to be Blessed: Seven Keys to Joyful Living”.

Judy Carman, Peace to All Beings

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It is with deep sorrow we share that also on Jun 22, 2024, Dr. John McDougall, a visionary physician, author, mentor, dear friend and another icon of our movement, died peacefully in his sleep at his home in Oregon. He was 77.

Born in 1947, Dr. McDougall suffered a stroke at the age of 18, which left him with a lifelong disability and a hunger to understand the root cause of diseases so that they can be truly cured. He was a passionate truth seeker, who unearthed the four deadly dietary deceptions: the Protein deception, the Calcium deception, the Omega-3 deception and the Carb deception, which he highlighted in his McDougall Research and Education Foundation website. His collection of ten favorite one-liners is a classic piece that should be required reading for everyone in our movement.

John McDougall, Health & Medical Center

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Please read the ENTIRE ARTICLE HERE for more about these icons! 

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Posted on All-Creatures.org: July 3, 2024
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