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Genesis Butler is 12 years old, but the American activist has a million reasons for Pope Francis to adopt a plant-based diet for the upcoming Catholic Lent.

Go vegan, she offered, and a $1 million donation will be made to the charity of the pontiff’s choice. Butler challenged the Pope with the Million Dollar Vegan campaign and highlighted his repeated pleas to take care of the planet.

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“Pope Francis, I am asking you to join me in abstaining from all animal products throughout Lent,” she wrote.

According to the Guardian, Pope Francis told the United Nations in 2015: “The ecological crisis, and the large-scale destruction of biodiversity, can threaten the very existence of the human species.”

Pope Francis has also called climate change a “global problem” with “grave implications.” Research has shown that animal agriculture is a massive polluter and a cause of deforestation, as well as a threat to wildlife.