TOP SECRET MANIFESTO

I think I have figured out a way to slow down or reverse global warming, and to get half the world's population to go vegan.

I hear a lot of people say that it is up to the corporations to make the changes, or for governments to force changes.

We can see that that is not working. To my knowledge, no government has ever met any of the goals decided at the first 26 meetings of the Conference of the Parties. If you have been paying attention, it appears that COP26 was a total failure, just like the previous 25, and looking into the future, COP27 in Egypt doesn't hold much promise.

Governments and businesses (and corrupt-selfish-greedy-evil people) around the world have decided that profits are more important than people. It’s time that we fight them with their own weapons.

Capitalism and greed are destroying the planet. It is no longer a climate crisis; we are in a planetary emergency.

So, how do we fight using their own tools?

Capitalism works with supply and demand. As long as we buy products, they are going to manufacture more and more. It is time to vote with our dollars, and our Euros, and whatever currency we have around the world to stop buying the products that are causing global warming, and to start buying products that are green, that are renewable, that help people and the planet.

An estimated 30% of carbon in the atmosphere is caused by the animal agriculture industry. The rainforests are being cut down, clear-cut, to grow more grain for more beef, for more steaks, for more hamburgers.

Only we the people can make the changes necessary to save our planet. Every time we buy a tank full of gasoline, we are encouraging the oil companies to pump more oil.

Every time we eat fish, we are encouraging fishermen to throw more nets in the seas to catch more fish.

Every time we buy more nuggets, we are encouraging the abuse of billions of chickens to be mistreated and tortured just for our taste buds.

All these lead to global warming. It is time that we the people make the changes necessary to force the corporations to stop killing animals, to stop pumping oil, to stop producing more plastic, to stop throwing nets into the oceans, to save our planet.

The corporations and the governments are not going to do it unless we force them to with the power of our votes, and I don’t mean political votes. It doesn’t seem to matter who we vote into office, because money controls politics.

We vote with our dollars, we vote with our purchases, and we vote by not purchasing.

When we stop buying gasoline, they will stop pumping oil. When we stop eating animals, they will no longer cut down rainforests. When we demand, with the power of our purchases, green products, they will submit to us because our dollars have power.

My plan, set forth below, is to form an organization, either a nonprofit organization or a union, with free membership and for those who can, with membership fees. Sort of like a union of vegans. The accumulation of these voluntary membership fees from hopefully millions of people, will help us to convince people to make the changes.

I think our primary focus has to be on young people, from ages seven through 21, because they are going to see the results if we do nothing. It's going to take a generation of young people, a generation of vegans, to make real, significant changes.

My plan is multifaceted, but the basis is free and very cheap membership fees renewed monthly, starting at $1 per month. We will of course have different levels of membership, and people who can afford more can donate much more.

There are already many organizations doing good work, doing many of the things that I mention below. I do not want to duplicate their efforts, but rather support them financially as our membership base grows.

I also want to financially support scientists and writers to do original research, showing the links between animal agriculture and global warming.

I want to use the same techniques that the corporations, governments and polluters use, advertising and propaganda, hearing the same thing from multiple people, multiple sources, and multiple publications, in print, on television, and all over the web.

I have studied Neurolinguistic Programming, NLP, and I have seen the power of words and how we are affected by them through corporate advertising. We must use the same techniques to show people what is really happening and what we can do as individuals.

I’ve been waiting for someone else to do something, and a lot of people really are trying, but there doesn't seem to be an organized effort.

I cannot do this alone. I am old and do not have the energy. I was hoping to travel in retirement, but I don’t think that’s going to be possible anymore. So if you are reading this, either I sent you to this webpage, or someone else has, and I need your help.

This is going to take many years, many hours of volunteer labor, and a lot of money. My initial thought is that it will take a lot of organizing, managing, teaching and action for 18 years until half the world is vegan.

But together we can do it.

Robert Bike
Eugene, Oregon
November 2021

Resolution

Whereas the Conference of Parties has failed for the 26th time, and

Whereas the governments of the world have failed the people of the world, and

Whereas corporations have paid off corrupt politicians around the world,

We hereby resolve that we the people will use the natural powers invested in us to

Organize, Manage, Teach, Act and

Use the power of our purchases to:

• Promote plant agriculture, grow vegetables, fruits and grains for people
  
• Close all the slaughterhouses, end animal suffering
  
• Phase out fossil fuels and promote solar and wind power
  
• Halt global climate change, make our planet more liveable

Resources

ByLaws.pdf

BOV

Non-profit Oregon corporation, 501(C)(3), charitable organization
or organize as a business
bov2040.com

Goals:

• Turn a billion people vegan by 2030
• 2 billion vegans by 2035
  
• Over half the world population vegan by 2040
  
• Halt the progress of climate change
  
• Clean the earth’s pollution
  
• Close the slaughterhouses
  
• Save the oceans
• Keep the earth safe for humans

Organization:

• Board of Directors (hereafter called the Board or BoD)
  
• 5-member Board, small size, able to react quickly. These five shall be the only elected members of BOV, and shall be responsible for running the organization.
  
• Elected to Board for 2-year terms,
  
• Staggered, 2 officers beginning January 1 of even-numbered years, 3 officers beginning January 1 of odd-numbered years
• All Board Directors must sign our ethics statement and be ethical vegans
  
• Board decides duties according to talents & skills. No set offices, all equal.
  
• Set agenda, run meetings
  
• Public spokesperson
  
• Webmaster
  
• Social Media
  
• Monitor bookkeeper & CPA
  
• Keep minutes; record history
  
• Monitor membership records, deal with membership issues
• Monitor Committee Heads
  
• Meeting at least once per month via video conference.
  
• Hires office staff as needed
  
• Initial Interim Board Directors (IBD) appointed by Robert Bike to serve up to 2- and 3-year terms; thereafter elected by Membership to staggered 2-year terms.
  
• Advisory Committee, unpaid, unlimited number: famous vegans, vegan activists, climate activists to help organize, publicize. Welcome to attend Board meetings, but not required.
  
• Past Board Committee, open to any elected or appointed Board or IBD member in good standing who served on the Board at any time in the past, and who wants to serve, unpaid. Welcome to attend Board meetings, but not required.
  
• Various Committees whose Heads are required to attend Board meetings. See content for Committees.
• Bylaws
  
• Ethics statement
  
• Statements of Purpose, Mission, Vision
  
• History
  
• FAQs
  
• Annual meeting in person, in person if possible, held in October

• Free membership, open to everyone; must provide an email address, no auto renewal; emailed a renewal link; if not renewed automatically dropped, no voting rights.
• Basic membership $1 per month per person, auto renewing on day of enrollment; equivalent amount in other currencies, no voting rights.
  
• Full membership $10 per month per person, auto renewing on day of enrollment. Each individual gets one vote for Board and any issue Board puts forth.
  
• Lifetime membership $1000, one-time payment. Each individual gets one vote for Board and any issue Board puts forth for that individual's life.
  
• Supporting membership, $1000 once, plus $10 per month. Each individual gets one vote for Board and any issue Board puts forth.
  
• Super Donor: donate money, goods, equipment or services worth $1,000,000 or more. Each individual gets one vote for Board and any issue Board puts forth.
  
• Business membership $200 per year, no voting rights
  
• Charter member is anyone who joins the first year (2022).
  
• Membership card numbers, X1-Free; L1-Lifetime, B1-Basic, F1-Full, S1-Supporting, Z1-Business, D1-Super Donor, BD1-Board of Directors member, "Member Since" date of first payment on card
  
• Membership website through Wild Apricot or similar company
  
• USA 501(C)(3) status so that all contributions are tax-deductible in the USA.
  
• Fiscal year January 1 through December 31.

• Use PayPal as worldwide bank, if possible
  
• Hired vegan bookkeeper not related to the organization, vegan CPA for audits, vegan attorney, elected Board member(s) to monitor.
  
• All major payments must be approved by the elected Board, minor payments approved and signed by two designated elected Board officers. (Major/minor designation to be defined by the Board.)
• Produce/Market BoV's own logo products
• Accept most major forms of cryptocurrency
• VeganCoin
  • BoV's own cryptocurrency
  • maximum number of coins limited to number of vegans in the world, 2021 estimate 84,000,000
• Member credit cards where BOV gets a percentage of purchases
• Affiliate marketing of vegan products

Content:

Each Committee shall have one person designated as Head who shall report directly to the Board and be required to attend online Board meetings.

• Fundraising Committee: One portion of proceeds goes to running the organization, publicizing, and expanding membership.
  
• Scientific Research Committee:
  • Create content by subsidizing scientific research by vegan accredited scientists. (By now, if a scientist isn’t vegan, they aren’t paying attention or they put personal interests above saving the planet.)
• Research links between climate change and animal agriculture.
  
• Send scientists to environmentally sensitive areas to monitor changes over the years.
  
• Human Health Committee, researching and reporting on the links between eating animals and human health.
  
• Slaughterhouse Committee publicizing what happens inside slaughterhouses, abattoirs and butcheries, and other horrors of animal agriculture.
  
• Save Animals Committee: Support to animal sanctuaries around the world.
  • Sanctuaries must apply, be formally organized, and have auditable books.
    
• Animal Agriculture Committee: Fund scientific research into animal agriculture as a major cause of global climate change.
• Education Committee:
  • Transition and education program to help farmers transition from animal agriculture to growing plant food for humans (for reference, see what the Nature Conservancy does).
  • Transition corporations away from carbon producing toward net zero by 2030.
  • School outreach for grade school through high school, plus college campuses.
  • "Debate me" program on college campuses and public arenas.
  • Scholarships for people researching climate, etc.
    
• Climate Committee: Fund research on climate change around the world.
  
• Support Other Organizations Committee
  • Monitor other vegan and climate organizations around the world.
  • Support them financially when possible.
    
• Link Committee:
  
  • Link to vegan organizations, websites and apps, but not duplicating their efforts.
    
  • Link with animal rights activists around the world.
    
  • Link with climate activists around the world.
    
  • Link to pure vegan restaurants, stores, and products around the world (not businesses that also sell animal products, or subsidiaries of businesses that do).
    
• Publicity Committee: YouTube channels with research and content.
  
• Publishing Committee:
  
• Publish research in scientific journals.
  
• Publish in popular press.
• Publish in children's publications.
  
• Publish on our website in the membership zone.
  
• Help vegan authors get vegan books and articles published.
• Translators to get info to public in as many languages as possible.
  
• Social Media Committee: Active daily social media presence, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, TicTok, etc.
  
• Youth Committee:
  
  • Primary focus on youth.
    
  • Reduce demand for animal products > reduce supply of animal products > shut down slaughterhouses > save billions of animal lives.
    
  • Since animal agriculture is the largest contributing factor to climate change, reducing demand for dead animals will slow climate change.
    
• Political Action Committee:
• Work with governments and treaty organizations to:
  
  • Ban net fishing in the world’s oceans.
    
  • Monitor nations who do not comply with COP mandates.
    
  • Enact and promote legislation to save animals and the planet.
    
• Hire lobbyists.
• Subsidies Committee:
  • Eliminate all government subsidies to fossil fuels.
  • Subsidize all non-carbon forms of electric generation.
    
• Clean-Up Committee:
• Work to clean the world’s oceans of old fishing nets, floating debris, plastic and all trash.
• Monitor companies polluting the land, rivers and lakes.
• Clean pollution.
• Indigenous Peoples Committee: work with people around the world to:
  • Reclaim land stolen from them by colonizers.
  • Enforce all past treaties.
  • Fight intruders on their lands.
  • Educate.
  • Support.
    
• Public Committee: Create content to inform and educate the public of current harmful practices and guide them toward sustainable practices.
  
• Insulate Committee:
  • Teach consumers how to insulate their homes and businesses from heat and cold.
  • Work with governments, utilities, and private businesses to subsidize insulation.
• Home/Business Heating/Cooling Committee:
  • Government programs to incentivize movement from burning oil, gas, coal and wood.
  • Subsidize new heating/cooling systems with ultra-efficient heat pumps.
    
• Sustainable Building Materials Committee:
  
• Electrification Committee: teach consumers how to eliminate internal combustion engines (ICE) and turn to electric for their transportation and household tools.
• Small Appliances Committee:
  • Stop sales of gas appliances.
  • Subsidize sales of:
    • Induction stovetops (significantly more energy efficient than gas or conventional electric).
    • Convection microwaves/air fryers.
    • Air fryer/toaster oven combinations.
• Transportation Committee

  • End worldwide production of ICE personal automobiles in 2030, including cars and SUVs.
  • End worldwide production of ICE buses and trucks in 2035, including pickups, vans, and all trucks with two axles.
  • End worldwide production of all ICE multi-axle trucks in 2040.
  • End worldwide production of all ICE farm vehicles in 2040.
  • Ban sale of all internal combustion engines in 2040.
  • Ban use of all ICE vehicles in all metropolitan areas in 2040 (inside city limits of cities with a population of 20,000 or more).
  • All trains and planes must be electrified by 2050.
  • All ICE vehicles off all public roads by 2050.
    
• Solar Panels Committee:
  
• Work to require solar panels on all new buildings.
  
• Work with utilities to help subsidize solar panels on homeowner buildings.
  
• Work to require/incentivize landlords to put solar on rentals.
  
• Energy Storage Committee:
  
• Along with solar panels, battery backup helps residents maintain power during storms and unrest.
  
• Battery backup connected to the grid saves utilities from having expensive ICE generators to maintain power during peak periods and emergencies.
• Military Committee:
  • Work to require all military branches of all the countries of the world to convert all vehicles to electric power by 2050.
    
• Legal Committee:
  
• Provide legal $ assistance to protesters.
  
• Bail money.

More Thoughts

This is a water buffalo, a beast of burden in the Philippines.

The name BOV has a dual meaning.

The family of mammals Bovidae, or Bovine, is the most misused and abused mammal on earth. Cows, beef, bison, buffaloes, water buffalo, sheep, goats, cattle and musk oxen are some of the bovine family. An enormous portion of global warming is due to the use and misuse of bovine.

And the other meaning is Billions of Vegans, because even a few hundred million vegans won’t be enough to change the world. It’s going to take half of the earth’s population to be vegan to affect the changes we need.

I estimate that there are 84,000,000 vegans in the world today, just over 1% of the world population. If we can get 1% of 84 million vegans to join at the basic fee of $1 per month, that’s $840,000 per month. With that much income we can make some real changes.

• These are links to PDF documents that show how to get things done, both on an individual level and as an organization.
• They are in .pdf format so you can print them, if you wish.
• As much as possible, I have given the sources of the material.
• I did not write these; I only edited them for clarity and put them mostly in outline form.