Why?
There is a lesson that we as a species have failed to learn despite hundreds of years of powerful warnings. Tuberculosis, measles, whooping cough, typhoid, leprosy, and the common cold all have one thing in common: They jumped from animals to people when we started domesticating, farming and exploiting animals.
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Millions killed
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Protect our planet
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We need to change
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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
Just in the last hundred years, flu pandemics have spread across the world killing up to 100 million people. These were followed by SARS, bird flu, swine flu, MERS, and now COVID-19. Each of these infectious diseases spread rapidly after jumping from animals to humans, and they all exist as a direct result of the exploitation of animals for their meat, milk, eggs and skins.
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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 -
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 -
Luisa Mell
TV presenter, Activist and Founder: Luisa Mell Institute -
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.
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.
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- “Killing animals is unethical and obsolete, and it’s killing us too. We need to take pandemics off the menu by adopting a plant-based diet today.”
Alicia Silverstone
Actress, Author, and Founder: TheKindLife.com - “There are no prions in plants; you can’t get coronavirus from cauliflower, and there’s no flu in falafel production.”
Dr. Michael Greger
Public Health Expert, Author: Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching and How To Survive A Pandemic. - “When will we say enough is enough? Killing animals is unethical, and it’s killing us and planet earth too. Choose life, choose compassion, and take pandemics off the menu.”
Mýa
Grammy Award-Winning Singer/Songwriter and Philanthropist - “Getting animals off our collective plate would go a long way toward preventing future pandemics, and would improve our health and our environment at the same time.”
Dr. Neal Barnard
Physician, President: Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) - “The fact that we know our food system is partly to blame can empower us. We know how to strike at the single greatest risk factor for pandemics. We know how to make ourselves and our families safer.”
Prof. Aaron Gross
Associate Professor at the University of San Diego, CEO and Founder: FarmForward.org - “For the animals, wet markets are hell on earth [but] this is just one small part of the suffering that humans systematically inflict on animals in every country – in factory farms, laboratories, and the entertainment industry.”
Prof. Peter Singer
Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University - “Let’s stop pretending we don’t know where our food comes from and treating animals like commodities. We’d make a huge leap forward in fighting climate change and reducing the risk of emerging infectious diseases like COVID-19 if we did.”
Damien Mander
Founder: The International Anti-Poaching Foundation (IAPF), Australian Royal Navy Veteran - “If we really want to protect ourselves, protect future generations, protect our kids, and protect our families, then we also need to look at protecting other animals and not treating them as commodities.”
Dr. Aysha Akhtar
Neurologist, Author of ‘Our Symphony with Animals’ - “We definitely need vaccines to fight epidemics, but we are facing a losing battle if we don't also change our eating habits.”
Dr. Peter Li
Associate Professor of East Asian Politics
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