Editor: COVID has been around for years and zoonotic diseases will continue to spread because they are caused by germs that spread between animals and people. Mad cow disease came from cows, swine flu from pigs, SARS (COV) and MERS from bats and civet cats, bird flu from poultry.
Live animal markets and factory farms warehouse thousands of animals that wallow in their own waste with limited or no airspace, routinely creating conditions for the proliferation of superbugs and zoonotic pathogens. Nearly the entire supply of animal products consumed in the United States originate from industrial factory farms.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and World Health Organization (WHO) report factory farms are breeding grounds for more than 50% of human diseases. Factory farms routinely inject animals with antibiotics in order to prevent them from falling sick. These antibiotics enter the human food chain and systematically foster in humans a lethal resistance to the medicines that once subdued everyday infections.
Consider trying plant-based meats for your health and the environment. There is no way around it that raising animals for food causes death, and in the case of COVID-19, significant economic harm.
For more information go to pcrm.org of Physicians Committee For Responsible Medicine or pcrm.org.
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