including grass-fed beef and organic chicken.
“I thought I was feeding everyone at Muse so
beautifully....but what really kind of gutted
me more than anything was when Jim and I
watched Forks Over Knives. It blew our mind, it
was such a... [she sighs]. We felt gut punched,
we felt blindsided, we felt like we had been lied
to our whole lives about what was healthy for
our bodies, and what we got advertised to.”
Suzy attended monthly meetings of a large
NGO whose board she sat on. She learned, and
lectured groups about deforestation, biodiversity
laws, ocean certifications, melting glaciers, rising
sea levels, and more. One day she doodled a
flower. On each petal was a severe environmen-
tal issue and in the middle, the center that joined
them all was animal agriculture; the raising of
animals purely for consumption. Appalled, Suzy
says, “You can connect the dots with every
environmental issue we have out there back to
animal agriculture and how devastating it is.
It’s the second largest cause of greenhouse gases
and climate change in front of all transportation
combined, every car, every bus, every airplane,
everything. Well, the first whammy was watch-
ing Forks Over Knives and the second whammy
was learning about the devastations of animal
agriculture on our environment.”
The Camerons, who have become known
in the worlds of art, entertainment, philan-
thropy, and community as change-makers
and consciousness-shifters, researched animal
agriculture and its effects on climate change.
Suzy reflects, “I would have this pit in my
stomach every single morning, knowing that,
yes, I have the ability to go and start an envi-
ronmental school, yes I have the ability to start
an eco-dress design contest, but I knew deep
down inside no matter how hard I worked or
how hard I tried, I wasn’t even scratching the
surface. Yet, I would wake up every morning
thinking, ‘What else can I do?’ ”
The couple had cut meat from their diet,
and a few months later were reflecting on their
choices. She says, “Jim doesn’t use the word
hope, he’s a real doomsday kind of guy. If you
look at his movies, you know Terminator,
Avatar, Titanic, The Abyss, he doesn’t use the
word. He even has a T-shirt that says, ‘Hope is
not a strategy.’
We were walking on the beach and we had
already been plant-based for about two months
and he said, ‘You know, for the first time in my
life I actually had hope.’ I almost fell in the surf!
I was like, ‘Whoa, what’s going on?’ It was
that moment that I thought, this is it, this is that
silver bullet. This is the thing that is good for
your health, it’s good for the animals, it’s goodfor your waistline, it’s great for your sex life
[she laughs], you know all of these things.”
Suzy brought the idea to the Muse School,
where they began to offer plant-based meals.
The team joked instead of “OMG” it’s
“OMD” One-Meal-Day sans meat / animal
agriculture. Now, she’s bringing it to the world
via her book, O.M.D. released on October 23
by Simon & Schuster.
Suzy exclaims, “One person changing one
of their meals, one time a day for a year saves
almost 200,000 gallons of water, the equivalent
in carbon of driving from Los Angeles to New
York. So you can absolutely make a difference.
I have found my mission in life! Because I know
the more people I can inspire to be plant-based
or even just eat one plant-based meal a day, the
more it will help move the needle on climate
change. It will help make the world a better
place for our children. You know the first na-
tion’s people say that what we do today impacts
the next seven generations and I believe that.”
For more information about O.M.D. visit:
omdfortheplanet.com.
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