What We Do

When I was young, growing up in Paradise, California, I never liked to see violence and suffering except when playing American football, which I loved, but it was controlled violence with a goal. So leaving home as a teenager I volunteered many of my youthful years starting from my teens into 20’s and beyond for welfare and humanitarian work, mostly cooking, as well as feeding the poor and needy people. I helped supply and personally served plant-based meals to millions of people individually and collectively, collaborating with groups that also did this service. I did similar activities in India and Nepal as well.

In 2013, I returned to India because I wanted to help with the street dog and cow problem, where tens of millions of these animals live on the streets and tens of thousands of accidents are caused monthly by these animals, either hurting or killing both humans and animals. Around 400 people die daily on the streets of India and Nepal and countless more people are injured as well. A great number of these incidents are caused by these animals running in the streets. In the west we don’t have cows on the streets and very few street dogs as well. The eastern philosophy that teaches people to be kind to all living beings, just needs a little international innovative intervention to remedy the issue. It is very rare for us to  hear of cows causing road accidents in  the western countries, perhaps we will hear it once every five years. 

Many government officials and animal shelters in Nepal, including a few mayors, will let us set up mass roundup repurposing experiments to manage these street animal problems. Two mayors even promised their support and commitment for our nomadic cow sanctuary programme. Many of these officials even allowed us to paint our mind set training template on animal protection, ban on plastic and plant based diet. For example, Mayor Hemraj Oja of Gularia and Mayor Gopi Hemal of Dhangadhi, two of the mayors we have been in contact with, have already banned plastic soon after we brought 2000 plus students to his office with many bags of street trash. However, one drawback was that they just wanted me or the west to pay for the initiative. This is the reason why we need as much support as possible from well wishers and International environmental organisations and funders.

We carried on with these programmes as much as we could, but in 2016 everything changed when I saw a quote from Bill Gates that said “It’s not a choice unless the human population of the world becomes vegan within the next few years, life as we know it will end. That means your children will die before they reach your present age. Meat and dairy cause more suffering and environmental damage than all the wars in history. Veganism is not a choice, it’s our only option.” Bill Gates.

So I started doing everything differently. I started becoming more of a global thinker, not just a humanitarian.  I began changing my message on the large banners with quotes from Bill Gates and other influential persons like Albert Einstein who requested the world to be vegetarian decades ago. I will carry these banner wherever I go for many hours a day, sometimes eight hours or 12 hours.My record was 20 hours with about two half hour breaks in Utah at a marathon in Salt Lake City and Pride parade. Often, with my banners, I walked right into countless schools, colleges and universities with this message. Asian countries especially were more willing to let me and other world guardians I recruited speak in the classrooms, or assembly halls, and  often even after the very first time that we met the principal..

I learned from repetition when I was in my teens that one can create a dynamic change in memory and habit, when I wrote, heard, spoke, studied, the Sanskrit, Spanish and Bengali languages. When you say something, when you write something, when you hear something, when you sing that one thing with your heart it can completely have a mesmerising effect and enchant you and a whole school into a fully pure, hygienic and friendly state of mind.  See our videos and clips on our YouTube and TIck tok channel (envirodiet-world guardians). After working with so many protesters, activists, governments, institutions and individuals, I realised that they all have one thing in common. They’re not affecting massive environmental change, or getting people to change their lifestyle. The two main reasons for that are? #1) The adults are running the show, not the kids, that we should live and die for. #2) The kids are not being taught and trained how to protect the environment, not instilling in them this sense of duty and responsibility towards our dear earth and all the living beings inhabiting it.  

The older people who attended school years before, were not thoroughly instructed and repeatedly trained on how to manage and recycle waste, and how to live the most harmonious and beneficial way for all.  The adults mainly care about money, power, fame, comforts etc. as they learned this from their forefathers, books and institutions. Getting ahead, survival of the fittest and all of those things that lead to the exploitation of others, even if it contributes to causing the destruction of the earth, and not the protection of the planet. Possibly, only the kids and some of the mothers and fathers can be changed. The uncorrupted want a simple life, they don’t want violence and suffering, they want to just be happy, play and eat well.

This can be done on a plant-based diet. We can feed twice the world over, ending world hunger, and give the purpose back to the animals that they have had for millions of years, but humans, have nearly stopped it in the last few hundred years.In the past, the animals of the world lived nomadically moving in herds, eating the fire hazardous growth, fertilising and softening the ground everywhere they went. The animals can help slow the rapid overheating of the planet just by living, defecating and then dying as they have always done. We just have to allow them adequate access to water, mobile veterinarians and possibly shelter if the trees are not sufficient.