Asha O’Reilly, 14, takes Americans' association with meat as a staple of family life and encourages meatless family dinners as a way to take collective, positive climate action.

Asha O’Reilly, 14, takes Americans' association with meat as a staple of family life and encourages meatless family dinners as a way to take collective, positive climate action.

Asha O'Reilly, grade 9, is an expert on industrial agriculture and the meat industry. Her TEDx talk focuses on climate change and the macro-level impacts of industrial meat production and then she hones in on how any family at a dinner table can become part of the solution. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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The Center for Biological Diversity is a 501c3 nonprofit headquartered in Tucson, Arizona. At the Center, we believe that the welfare of human beings is deeply linked to nature — to the

The Center for Biological Diversity is a 501c3 nonprofit headquartered in Tucson, Arizona. At the Center, we believe that the welfare of human beings is deeply linked to nature — to the existence in our world of a vast diversity of wild animals and plants. Because diversity has intrinsic value, and because its loss impoverishes society, we work to secure a future for all species, great and small, hovering on the brink of extinction. We do so through science, law and creative media, with a focus on protecting the lands, waters and climate that species need to survive.

We want those who come after us to inherit a world where the wild is still alive.