In the last hundred years, infectious disease pandemics have spread across the world killing up to 100 million people. 3 in 4 are the result of our exploitation of animals for their meat, milk, eggs and skins.
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It is time to make the connection between animal agriculture and environmental destruction, antibiotic resistance and disease outbreak, and to take animals off our plates. Going vegan has never been easier or more essential.
How to prevent the next pandemic
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Dr. Michael Greger
Public Health Expert, Author: Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching and How To Survive A Pandemic. -
Alicia Silverstone
Actress, Author, and Founder: TheKindLife.com -
Dr. Neal Barnard
Physician, President: Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) -
Mýa
Grammy Award-Winning Singer/Songwriter and Philanthropist -
Damien Mander
Founder: The International Anti-Poaching Foundation (IAPF), Australian Royal Navy Veteran -
Sunny Leone
Model and actress in the Indian film industry -
Prof. Aaron Gross
Associate Professor at the University of San Diego, CEO and Founder: FarmForward.org -
Evanna Lynch
Actress, Activist, Podcast Host: The ChickPeeps -
Prof. Peter Singer
Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University -
Dr. Aysha Akhtar
Neurologist, Author of ‘Our Symphony with Animals’ -
Dr. Peter Li
Associate Professor of East Asian Politics -
Dr. T. Colin Campbell
Nutritional Biochemist, Author: The China Study -
Dr. Dean Ornish
Physician, President: Preventive Medicine Research Institute (PMRI) -
Dr. Garth Davis
Bariatric Surgeon, Author: Proteinaholic -
Dr. Angie Sadeghi
Gastroenterology Specialist, Author: The Trifecta of Health. -
Dr. Kim Williams
Chief of the Division of Cardiology - Rush University Medical Center
Doubling Down
Instead of recognising the deadly system we created, learning from past pandemics and changing, we doubled down.
We bred, farmed, captured and slaughtered on an unimaginable scale and now, all across the world, billions of animals are crammed inside filthy factory farm sheds. Sick and weak, they live in squalid conditions that are the perfect breeding grounds for disease. To keep them alive just a few weeks or months, the animals are administered vast amounts of antibiotics. Antibiotic overuse is deadly: Diseases become resistant to the drugs, superbugs emerge, and we are left with nothing that can fight them. If we don’t end this practice, experts warn that simple, treatable infections will kill us.
Virus spillover risk
Animal agriculture is the world’s leading driver of deforestation and habitat loss.
In Latin America alone, it is responsible for destroying 2.71 million hectares of tropical forest each year. When we cut down forests, we destroy the habitats of wild animals, cutting lose the deadly pathogens they incubate and allowing them to come into contact with us. Researchers say that almost half of all diseases that jumped from animals to humans since 1940 can be traced to changes in land use, animal farming, and wildlife hunting.
Public Service Announcements
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Change Your Diet: Change The World
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When Will You Say Enough Is Enough?
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What Do You Truly Value The Most?
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We Are Trading Our Lives For Animal Products
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Expert Says Chicken Farms Are Ticking Time Bombs
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Expert Says We Must Learn From This Pandemic
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The Next Pandemic Could Be Magnitudes Worse
Important Reading
The Independent
Vegan group gives away thousands of meals to help the hungry and warns of dangers of animal consumption
The Guardian
We have to wake up: factory farms are breeding grounds for pandemics
Washington Post
Meat is not essential. Why are we killing for it?
Sentient Media
The Best Defense Against the Next Pandemic: Your Fork
Washington Post
Wet markets breed contagions like the coronavirus. The U.S. has thousands of them.
Million Dollar Vegan
Slaughterhouses Make Victims of People too
Sentient Media
COVID-19 Isn’t the Only Sickness Spreading Through Meat Plants
Plant Based News
Taking Animals Off Our Plates Would Help Prevent Pandemics
The Ecologist
Eating animals will be the death of us
The New York Times
The End of Meat Is Here