原文：https://vegnews.com/2020/11/brooklyn-s-vegan-president-eric-adams-is-officially-running-for-nyc-mayor

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BROOKLYN’S VEGAN PRESIDENT ERIC ADAMS IS OFFICIALLY RUNNING FOR NYC MAYOR

身为纯素食者的布鲁克林区长埃里克·亚当斯正式竞选纽约市长

If Adams is elected in 2021, he will become the city’s first vegan mayor.

如果在2021年成功当选，亚当斯将成为纽约市的第一位纯素市长。

by ANNA STAROSTINETSKAYA

作者：ANNA STAROSTINETSKAYA

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

2020年11月23日

This month, Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams officially announced his candidacy for mayor of New York City—and if he is elected in 2021, Adams will become the city’s first vegan mayor. The Borough President made the announcement in a Zoom call attended by hundreds of volunteers.

美国纽约市布鲁克林区区长埃里克·亚当斯（Eric L. Adams）于本月正式宣布其纽约市市长的候选人身份──亚当斯一旦在2021年竞选成功，则将成为该市首位纯素市长。在有数百名志愿者参加的一次Zoom通话（视频会议）中，这位现任的布鲁克林区长做出了上述宣布。

“Like many New Yorkers, my life has been full of struggles. It wasn’t always easy. My mom worked her fingers to the bone cleaning houses to raise six children, all on her own,” Adams said. “But we persevered—because that’s what New Yorkers do. Now the city is in pain. And I know I can help because I have lived the life of the people who are hurting the most. I have seen what works and what doesn’t in this city. To be truly progressive, we have to fix [the] government and eliminate the inefficiencies that are holding us back.”

“如同许多纽约人一样，我的人生也充满了艰苦奋斗，当中少不了难熬的时刻。我的母亲独挑重担抚养六个孩子，（为了养家糊口）辛苦劳作替人打扫房子。”亚当斯说道。“但我们从未向命运低头──因为这就是纽约人的真实写照。当下这座城市正在遭受苦难。而我知道我能够出手相助，因为本人跟那些受伤最重的人们有过同样的人生经历。在这个城市里，我目睹了怎样做才行得通，也看透了什么是瞎折腾。要想取得真正的进步，我们唯有动手‘修理’[这个]政府，革除阻碍我们前进的低效无能。”

Adams’ personal childhood experience with police brutality led him to a life of public service, including serving with the New York City Police Department for 22 years (as an effort to affect change from within). In 2014, Adams became the first person of color to be elected to serve as the Brooklyn borough president. In 2016, Adams went vegan and has used his platform to help his constituents and fellow New Yorkers gain control of their health through several initiatives, including spearheading a plant-based medicine program within the city’s largest medical system NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue. Adams also worked with current NYC mayor, Bill de Blasio, to implement Meatless Mondays at 15 schools in Brooklyn, a program the mayor expanded to all 1,700 NYC public schools last March.

亚当斯童年不幸遭到警察的虐待，促使他毅然投身于个人的公职生涯，其中包括在纽约市警察局（NYPD）任职22年（以求从政府内部推动变革）。2014年，亚当斯成为第一位当选为布鲁克林区长的有色人种。2016年，亚当斯成为了一名纯素食者（并因此成功逆转个人的2型糖尿病），一直利用自己的政治平台并通过推行多项计划，包括领导实施纽约市最大医疗系统“纽约卫生+医院/表维”（NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue）的植物性医疗计划，努力帮助其选民们和纽约市民们掌控个人健康。亚当斯还和纽约现任市长比尔·白思豪（Bill de Blasio）联手合作，在布鲁克林区15所学校率先施行“无肉星期一”（Meatless Mondays）计划，而去年三月纽约市长又将该项健康饮食计划推广到了本市全部1,700所公立学校。

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Adams has continued his commitment to public service by helping to hand out plant-based meals to those in need and creating a public service announcement—with the help of 40 medical professionals—to encourage New Yorkers of color (who are disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic) to go vegan.

在COVID-19（2019冠状病毒病）大流行期间，亚当斯继续积极献身于公共事业，大力支持向有需要的人们派发（营养健康的）植物性餐食，并在40名医疗专业人士的帮助下制作了一则公益广告，以广泛宣传激励（受此次疫情过度影响的）纽约有色人种成为纯素食者。

“COVID may have made thousands of New Yorkers sick, but for far too many it was inequality and an unjust, indifferent, dysfunctional government that killed them,” Adams said. “We need action and we need it now. The promise of New York has always been—and must always be—that any New Yorker can be who they were meant to be. When we unleash the potential of New Yorkers by allowing them to thrive, there is no pandemic, no recession, no division that we cannot overcome.”

“新冠病毒可以让成千上万的纽约人染病，但对于绝大部分病人来说，真正使他们丧命的是各种不平等以及一个不公、冷漠、失效的政府，”亚当斯说道。“我们需要行动，我们需要立即行动。任何纽约人都能够成为自己心目中的人──这一直是──也必定是纽约市的前途所在。若能任由纽约人努力兴旺发达，从而充分释放他们的潜能，那么就没有什么疾病大流行（pandemic）、经济衰退（recession）和分歧（division）是咱们克服不了的。”