If you’re an avid supporter and follower of a plant-based lifestyle, you must have already heard about the Plant Based Treaty: Eat Plants, Plant More
A plant-based lifestyle is becoming the go to choice for more and more people, especially in the last six months. With widespread effects of climate change being experienced across the world on unprecedented levels, we must put our food system under the microscope.
What is the Plant Based Treaty?
The Plant Based Treaty aims to tackle the environmental damage caused by our present food system, which has shaped the dietary habits of billions of people across generations. It works to amend and improve today’s food system, the catalyst to control and reverse climate change.
With the goal of saving our planetary functions and shifting to a more sustainable diet of plant-based foods, having such a framework that guides, generates awareness and facilitates active action is the need of the hour.
The Plant Based Treaty has three core principles to do so:
1) Relinquish
Relinquishing our use of plants and trees for animal agriculture by putting an end to deforestation through government laws and regulations. This happens when more and more cities and countries sign up for this treaty.
2) Redirect
A gradual yet active switch from an animal-based food system to a plant-based one. This required dedicated, constant and united efforts of citizens, lawmaking bodies, courts etc. It’s not easy to change the cogs of a system that have been in damaging motion for such a long time.
3) Restore
While relinquishing and redirecting will help prevent any future damage, it’s all the more important to simultaneously try to repair and restore the previously caused damage that has been detrimental to the planetary functions and its ecosystem. This involves afforestation to restore forests and landscapes across the globe.
