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Sustainability / Environment

ProVeg International Launches Youth Board to Demand Food System Change

ProVeg International has formed a Youth Board of influential young activists from across the world, with the aim of reducing meat consumption by 50% by 2040 under the banner “Diet Change Not Climate Change”. The Youth Board will use the voices of the future to pressure policymakers to act on climate change.  Pushing for food system change to tackle the climate crisis, food awareness organization ProVeg International has formed the new Youth Board with 10 young people from four continents. The members are all already active campaigners in the field of climate change and represent a powerful group to push forward urgent calls for food system change. As young people across the globe are taking to the streets for the annual climate strike – organized …

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Society

Teenaged Activist Greta Thunberg Raises Global Awareness of Veganism

Over one million participants from 100 countries in over 2000 cities took part in the largest Fridays-for-Future demonstrations to date on 15th March. Climate change activist Greta Thunberg fascinates not only children and young adults, but people of all ages. Hardly any other individual has provided such a strong worldwide movement in such a short time.

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