Guardian - The meat that we eat today overwhelmingly comes from genetically
uniform, immunocompromised, and regularly drugged animals lodged by the
tens of thousands into buildings or stacked cages – no matter how the
meat is labelled...We don’t yet know the full history of the emergence of Covid-19, the
particular strain of coronavirus that now threatens us. But with recent
pandemic virus threats from influenza viruses such as H1N1 (swine flu) or H5N1 (bird flu)
there is no ambiguity: those viruses evolved on chicken and pig factory
farms. Genetic analyses have shown that crucial components of H1N1
emerged from a virus circulating in North American pigs. But it is
commercial poultry operations that appear to be the Silicon Valley of
viral development.
The Hill - First and foremost, in the post-peak period of this pandemic and before
another virus emerges, it’s time to shut down an industry that is at the
core of this problem: the factory farming of animals and the
destruction of natural habitat that makes this industry possible. Doing
so would save hundreds of thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of
dollars.
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