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You could always try veganism...
COVID-19 originated, as best as we can tell, from a so-called ‘wet market’, where animals are kept and slaughtered for food. These environments, like factory farms, are prime breeding grounds for zoonotic diseases. These are diseases – like COVID-19, SARS, bird ‘flu, swine ‘flu, and more – that leap from nonhuman animals to humans. Of course, wet markets and factory farms would not exist if the whole world was vegan. This crucial point is being acknowledged, though sometimes only reluctantly, in the press. However, this link between veganism and COVID-19 is being made by both activists and academics in increasing numbers.
This shift towards veganism – like the COVID-19 lockdown – has the potential to save many, many human lives. First, it will severely reduce the threat of future pandemics, as discussed above. But second, it will severely reduce the threat of other human health crises associated with animal agriculture, like antibiotic resistance. Here is Benatar again:
In addition to future pandemics, we face the very real risk of breeding antibiotic resistance. The major contributor to this is the use of antibiotics in the animal agriculture industry, as a growth promoter (to bring animals to slaughter weight as quickly as possible) and to curb the spread of infections among animals reared in cruel intensive “factory farmed” conditions. … It is entirely possible that the human future will involve a return to the pre-antibiotics era, in which people died in droves from infections that have been effectively treated since the discovery of penicillin and other early antibacterial agents. … We, as a species, know about this problem, but we have not yet done what needs to be done to avert it (or at least minimize the chances of its happening).
https://www.vegansociety.com/news/blog/veganism-and-covid-19![]()
https://www.webmd.com/diet/vegan-diet-overview
https://www.livekindly.co/pcrm-president-dr-neal-barnard-vegan-nutrition-award/
https://www.livekindly.co/vegan-lifestyle-benefits/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4991921/
https://www.downtoearth.org/go-veggie/first-time-usda-report-acknowledges-benefits-vegetarianism
You could always try veganism...
COVID-19 originated, as best as we can tell, from a so-called ‘wet market’, where animals are kept and slaughtered for food. These environments, like factory farms, are prime breeding grounds for zoonotic diseases. These are diseases – like COVID-19, SARS, bird ‘flu, swine ‘flu, and more – that leap from nonhuman animals to humans. Of course, wet markets and factory farms would not exist if the whole world was vegan. This crucial point is being acknowledged, though sometimes only reluctantly, in the press. However, this link between veganism and COVID-19 is being made by both activists and academics in increasing numbers.
This shift towards veganism – like the COVID-19 lockdown – has the potential to save many, many human lives. First, it will severely reduce the threat of future pandemics, as discussed above. But second, it will severely reduce the threat of other human health crises associated with animal agriculture, like antibiotic resistance. Here is Benatar again:
In addition to future pandemics, we face the very real risk of breeding antibiotic resistance. The major contributor to this is the use of antibiotics in the animal agriculture industry, as a growth promoter (to bring animals to slaughter weight as quickly as possible) and to curb the spread of infections among animals reared in cruel intensive “factory farmed” conditions. … It is entirely possible that the human future will involve a return to the pre-antibiotics era, in which people died in droves from infections that have been effectively treated since the discovery of penicillin and other early antibacterial agents. … We, as a species, know about this problem, but we have not yet done what needs to be done to avert it (or at least minimize the chances of its happening).
https://www.vegansociety.com/news/blog/veganism-and-covid-19![]()
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Wow. That's a selfish attitude. Why are you more important than 7.9 billion people? Veganism is more effective at reducing our carbon footprint than .......