Plant-Based Pride is fundamentally about safeguarding the LGBTQIA+ community around the world from the harms of climate change.

Our world’s changing environment, and the risks this change brings, are amplified among marginalised communities, and this is reflected in several studies and highlighted by several climate and human rights organisations.

Some further reading on this can be found here

As such, we believe Pride has a duty to protect the global community - and our campaign focusses on advocating an immediate move to plant-based food options.

There are many brilliant environmental campaigns launched by Pride organisations worldwide to reduce emissions and plastic waste, however switching away from meat and dairy to plant-based foods not only has the potential to more effectively target these areas, but also targets water use, land use, deforestation and direct in-ocean plastic from discarded fishing nets and ‘ghost’ waste (one of the largest and most harmful sources of plastics in our oceans) to name just a few.

Pride is a movement of empowerment and protection, and in our view it is contradictory to demand equality and justice for the LGBTQIA+ community whilst at the same time ignoring the consequences for the community that come with providing food heavy in meat and dairy.