In Supreme Master Ching Hai International Association News from the United States…
On April 26, 2026, our Association members from Northern California participated in the Sacramento Earth Day at Southside Park in California, USA. The event drew thousands of attendees and over 100 exhibitors, highlighting environmental awareness and sustainability.
Our Association members hosted a booth, livestreaming Supreme Master Television, and distributing informational materials. They also shared how veganism offers the most effective solution to the climate crisis, inspiring visitors to reflect on the impacts of animal-people livestock raising and the benefits of vegan living.
“Being vegan’s good for the earth because you’re reducing the amount of methane that’s being put into the atmosphere by the dairy industry and by the beef industry.”
“Ninety percent of the milk and the eggs we get is from factory farms where animals are treated completely as expendable commodities. I started realizing ‘This is not okay!’ And I would rather live according to my principles than to just sit and continue to be complicit in these systems.”
“I think that we can be a lot more mindful about the fact that we share this planet with other species. It’s not just ours, and it’s not ours to use up. I think once you see animals as individuals, it becomes much harder to see them then as a food source. Their lives are all they have. So, who am I to take it away?”
“It becomes real in the sense of, ‘I am eating an animal.’ ‘I am eating a life.’ And so, for me, I couldn’t eat meat anymore after that… And then, you remove the dairy, you remove the meat, and then it’s like, ‘Okay! All right!’ I actually feel significantly better.”
“I turned around a bunch of health issues. I see the world differently, and I think that it absolutely has made my life a hundred times better. I couldn’t imagine it any other way.”
“The biggest thing you can do is just change what you eat. Literally, it’s three times a day where you can really make an impact. It’s direct action and so... It’s just nice to feel joyful during and after every meal knowing that no one or nothing was harmed.”
Drea Mason, owner of the festival’s vegan food stall, carries a compassionate mission to help free animal-people from suffering through her carnival-style vegan offerings. “I am truly vegan for the animals.”
“I’d rather not people kill animals, because if they keep doing it, there maybe not be no more animals left on the world. We have to keep our nature how it was because killing animals is not how God wanted it to be. He made this creation.”
“If you don’t eat vegetarian food and you expect peace in your life, not possible at all. Because you are making somebody uncomfortable, almost like killing somebody, then it’s not a good karma. So, as a human being, our human religion, our humanity is telling us that all the creatures on this planet are God’s creation. And we have to honor them, respect them.”
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Our sincere thanks to our Association members and all who joined in this Earth Day celebration honoring Mother Earth and all beings. We are also deeply grateful to the United Trinity Utmost Powerful for Their eternal Blessings. In Their Divine upliftment, may humanity soon awaken to a vegan world blossoming with joy, love, and lasting peace.
