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We can see below the dangers of farming and eating animals just from zoonotic diseases beside supporting the greatest damage to the environment, to health and animal suffering. A pandemic scenario very similar to that of Covid-19 was warned of in 2007. Without animal farming (especially industrial) and consumption of animal-products, pandemic outbreaks are highly unlikely to occur, or, if the highly plausible lab-leak theory is correct, highly dangerous gain of function research would have no excuse to be allowed to continue, and specifically the covid pandemic would have been prevented in this way. Meat markets / factory farms and even slaughterhouses are often infested with pathogens. Abnormal high density of infected animals, their transportation and contact with humans results in optimal pathogen-spreading and mutations. An additional dilemma is the high usage of antibiotics in industrial farms to fight pathogens, which is the main cause of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, considered as a major threat by WHO, potentially killing millions in the coming years.^{1 2 3 4} “Drug-resistant infections know no borders and do not respect barriers between industry, regulators and buyers, or between animals, humans and their wider environment”⁵

Spanish flu 1918 – wild birds to poultry farms to humans
https://www.nature.com/news/study-revives-bird-origin-for-1918-flu-pandemic-1.14723

or swine plus humans

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2014.14723

How Denmark significantly reduced its death-rate by cutting out meat, alcohol and reducing dairy herds by one third due to wartime shortages:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikkel_Hindhede

(Note that meat consumption in industrialised countries was considerably less in the early 20th century, an era before intensive agriculture and factory farming. Therefore reduction of dairy herds by a third would mean minimal dairy intake and is therefore not comparable with 2022)

In Denmark the Spanish Influenza pandemic claimed just 0.2% of the population

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20181023-the-places-that-escaped-the-spanish-flu

“Recent studies have, by comparing international mortality levels for 1918, noted that Denmark stands out as the country with the lowest levels of excess mortality [2,3].”

https://paa2008.princeton.edu/papers/81563

17% death rate reduction from non-epidemic causes 1917 and 34% in 1918 (pandemic year)

https://futurefood.org/DissertationSchmidinger.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1xc91WQxn1KCn3l7FDeM6Q8k7eskNnFNldbJqF8vRmBlY24pljoJooLaQ

SARS 2002 – bats/civet cat-eating/farming to humans

https://www.who.int/ith/diseases/sars/en/

swine flu 2009 – pig farms to humans
https://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/information_h1n1_virus_qa.htm

swine flu origins in intensive pig farming
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/apr/28/swine-flu-intensive-farming-caroline-lucas

Current threats and examples of continuous problem

Fur Farms and Covid-19 spread

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-denmark-mink-idUSKBN27K1X6?fbclid=IwAR1PzTekUk7pThVv9_BHM_dLwBnF0JGelAzoLE5eJKVv-qpHAcTdMXD4XjI

Deadliest Avian Flu Outbreak In US History Kills Over 52 Million Birds

Bird flu

Human infectedvia cows in USA:

https://utopia.de/news/vogelgrippe-mann-steckt-sich-bei-infizierten-milchkuehen-an_669190/

“Der Biogeograf und Ornithologe Peter Petermann, der sich seit Jahren mit dem Thema beschäftigt, bezweifelt dagegen die Zugvogel-Hypothese. Viel naheliegender sei die Verbreitung über die Geflügelindustrie, argumentiert er. Die Möglichkeit der Verbreitung bei den Geflügeltransporten werde aber möglicherweise aus Rücksichtnahme auf den wichtigen Agrarwirtschaftszweig weitestgehend ausgeklammert, kritisiert Petermann auch an die Adresse des FLI. »Es wird zu wenig untersucht, wie die Ausbreitungswege in der Geflügelwirtschaft wirklich sind.«

Petermann sieht beispielsweise in Geflügeltransporten auf der Straße gefährliche Übertragungswege. Durch die notwendige Belüftung für die dicht gedrängt eingepferchten Tiere entstünden auch ideale Bedingungen für die Verbreitung von Viren über große Entfernungen. Auch am Straßenrand verstreute Federn aus den Transporten quer durch Europa seien ideale Wege zur Weiterverbreitung. Ein weiteres Problem entstehe, wenn ein Ausbruch nicht erkannt werde und die toten Hühner oder Puten im Zuge der Entsorgung beispielsweise zu Dünger oder Fischfutter weiterverarbeitet würden.”

https://www.spektrum.de/news/vogelgrippe-das-naechste-pandemievirus-ist-vielleicht-schon-da/1875904?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-de-DE

– backyard chickens

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-birdflu-germany/germany-reports-outbreak-of-h5n8-bird-flu-in-backyard-poultry-oie-idUSKBN204254

Avian flu origins in animal-farming

“At least eight types of bird flu, all of which can kill humans, are circulating around the world’s factory farms – and they could be worse than Covid-19”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/18/factory-farms-of-disease-how-industrial-chicken-production-is-breeding-the-next-pandemic

UK has more than 1000 mega-farms

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/18/uk-has-more-than-1000-livestock-mega-farms-investigation-reveals

https://www.scidev.net/global/livestock/feature/swine-fever-raises-fears-of-bird-flu-pandemic-1x.html

“Cromie said that while improving biosecurity was the best short-term solution, the authorities should be looking at how these viruses originate in and are amplified by industrial meat production. Britain slaughters more than 1 billion chickens every year.”

Virus causing ‘high levels of mortality’ in birds, with risk to chickens and other poultry

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/27/bird-flu-fears-grow-after-spate-of-mysterious-uk-swan-deaths

Fatal strain of bird flu outbreak S.Carolina

https://eu.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/agriculture/2020/04/11/bird-flu-deadly-strain-confirmed-south-carolina-first-severe-case-since-2017/2976912001/?fbclid=IwAR3i3rq9-E0CfEzKLT83Ywnt8G1ihdZt1kLtwjKEDnQNUSe46TBUCKPIj2M

General outbreak (in German)

https://www.verbraucherzentrale.de/wissen/lebensmittel/lebensmittelproduktion/h5n8erreger-vogelgrippe-ist-wieder-in-deutschland-angekommen-44088?fbclid=IwAR3nb8SqYw2nxUsObtIeM4HmUJC8WqZ7njspffPlralU3eigEaL1T6I4vAo

African Swine Fever outbreak in Poland April 2020

African Swine Fever Outbreak Discovered In Poland

Antibioticresistant bacteria in pig feces as fertiliser (German)

https://www.n-tv.de/wissen/Schweinehalter-verbreiten-resistente-Keime-article21731067.html?fbclid=IwAR0J2j2Km_CrwZpldixZEhl5dC7yszOYw6m6queZpemYVJCeru66tf0E5C8

Die nächste Pandemie könnte aus dem Hühnerstall kommen

https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/multiresistente-keime-in-der-landwirtschaft-die-naechste.976.de.html?dram%3Aarticle_id=487266&fbclid=IwAR1wU3Wpa2tgGl6OJiiinEcn03icLNLKdyJqV1gzIwvFzqBzDOSKlWzouM0

Christian Drosten, virologist at Berliner Charité (article in German)

„Der aktuelle Grund sollte jetzt sehr überzeugend sein, notwendige Veränderungen in Angriff zu nehmen. Das Problem ist der Fleischhunger in der sich ausweitenden Gesellschaft.“

“The current reason should now be very convincing to make the necessary changes. The problem is the desire for meat in an expanding society. ”

https://www.stern.de/gesundheit/virologe-christian-drosten—wir-haben-in-deutschland-einige-vorteile-gegenueber-anderen-laendern–9190450.html?fbclid=IwAR3Fuep6cZvjmSR4xriumI-tVkn7ReXjvHy8Vrrv-ha3gqvMmuEFnBCBE_w

“Zudem warnte der Virologe angesichts der Tierhaltung weltweit vor weiteren Pandemien. Diese biete “ideale Bedingungen für ein Virus, um sich an den Menschen anzupassen”.

Darum dürfen wir nicht nur auf Asien und die Schleichkatzen zeigen oder auf die Kamele im Orient. Was wir hier mit den Schweinen machen, ist auch nicht gut.”

°Eine wachsende Menschheit mit wachsendem Fleischhunger berge das Risiko für künftige Pandemien, so Drosten.”

https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/panorama/corona-drosten-interview-zeit-schulschliessungen-100.html

MERS (H1N1) 2012 – bats to camel farms to humans
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/5/140513-mers-saudi-camels-health-contagion-spillover-bats-disease/?fbclid=IwAR3OLavNP6fNht42PIupqvVbatIBKiM8YW-VEKeSsqDa8gcpshYbFOVlRUE

Covid-19 (“Coronavirus”) 2019 – bat-eating / pangolin farms
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00364-2?fbclid=IwAR3U8ebx6B5HBMXjrPq9W6HZJerxtCOroSqE1FMGykjBsZkkXLCdIZucWs4

“for a precursor virus … an animal host would probably have to have a high population density (for natural selection to be efficient)…”.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9?fbclid=IwAR2X6-6n6raHTKcORVtdmRQffMnG9En6mxMWFq3wbo8SyhxDTJbncnCxhSc

Spread via slaughterhouses?

“the single-biggest source of coronavirus cases in the U.S.”

Smithfield Hit With Lawsuit for Failing to Protect Pork Factory Workers From COVID-19

“Largest outbreak in Canada” (….”In the U.S., rates of coronavirus infection are 75 per cent higher in rural counties housing large beef, pork and poultry-processing plants”)

https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/04/24/Alberta-Meat-Packers-COVID-Outbreak/?fbclid=IwAR3A8d2Bp2mWYtYjiPObuqpdIu__KMLStrNbi4A4Z-A6amYi5ujJc7-9daI

Outbreak in German slaughterhouse:300 cases (in German)

Rund 300 Mitarbeiter positiv Heftiger Corona-Ausbruch in Schlachthof

https://www.n-tv.de/panorama/Heftiger-Corona-Ausbruch-in-Schlachthof-article21746955.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR1G-hZhDBHW9KVmF2KT1ZUhEbij05V8kAaBGK25DW2kGbU_mMLZinTuExA#Echobox=1588148137

“Schlachthöfe und Fleischbetriebe entwickeln sich gerade zum Corona-Brennpunkt im ganzen Land”

“Löhne unter dem Mindestlohn, Massenunterkünfte, kaum Erholung für kranke Kollegen”

https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/schlachthoefe-fleischproduktion-missstaende-coronavirus-1.4902875?fbclid=IwAR3129zBEwRZ_a-8G1UhYdknKU2xTfHQxVBs-ly-0_Srwok35eEjh89oIjY

652 Infizierte

“Corona-Massenausbruch bei Tönnies: Hunderte infiziert – die Ansteckungsrate ist enorm – heftige Konsequenzen drohen”

https://www.ovb-online.de/weltspiegel/coronavirus-guetersloh-deutschland-toennies-fleischfabrik-zahlen-aktuell-ausbruch-schulen-kitas-news-zr-13801264.amp.html?fbclid=IwAR2tAvRtxfDDcieifMyKNmr8egcVkwy__1ZpOTVny-rpQPT4clvGY7ByKyQ

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/14/everyones-on-top-of-you-sneezing-and-coughing-life-inside-irelands-meat-plants-covid-19

bird flu – wild birds to poultry farms to humans
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/260025#1

Spread of bird flu

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_spread_of_H5N1

history

“While most wild birds have only a mild form of the H5N1 strain, once domesticated birds such as chickens or turkeys are infected, H5N1 can potentially become much more deadly because the birds are often in close contact. H5N1 is a large threat in Asia with infected poultry due to low hygiene conditions and close quarters. Although it is easy for humans to contract the infection from birds, human-to-human transmission is more difficult without prolonged contact. However, public health officials are concerned that strains of avian flu may mutate to become easily transmissible between humans.[18”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avian_influenza

HIV and Ebola from bushmeat hunting

https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/coronavirus-uk-pandemics-environmentalists-warning-a9413996.html?fbclid=IwAR3n8BBBqdV4W-wYaU0hkEBA5G97-1axawxDpTlIp3yUHFrPZnlN3zKYKUo

Further Antibiotic Resistance Information

Antibiotic use in animal farming – EU comparison

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/antibiotic-use-in-livestock-in-europe?fbclid=IwAR1qe-3E3xwQeSqvJBqHe_0XXofTJvXgfsTjEDUhEL9k39L8eu3Iz6Prhzs

Antibiotic resistance adds to the impact of Covid-19

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/antibiotic-treatment-covid-19-complications-could-fuel-resistant-bacteria

Antibiotic resistance: the hidden threat lurking behind Covid-19

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200401-coronavirus-why-death-and-mortality-rates-differ

https://www.24hamburg.de/hamburg/coronavirus-tiere-schlachthof-warnung-multiresistente-keime-soko-tierschutz-friedrich-muelln-zr-90010549.html?fbclid=IwAR3-E0tiVol_LykILWi5AFQd0t21BZSSYCSWsDjmai9IRw8vJ84q4XI33aU

https://sciencenorway.no/antibiotics-crisis-epidemic/multi-drug-resistant-bacteria-when-the-immune-system-during-covid-19-is-attacked-from-two-fronts/1675599?fbclid=IwAR0gTQSZdcJ–SVfDEEXXqKeyO9d4zSWC0XG_wTDX6TvfVltJBpYD-ruPWE

https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2020/04/27/superbugs-in-the-news-how-covid-19-is-increasing-antibiotic-use

https://www.aidian.eu/news/antimicrobial-resistance-amr-has-a-role-in-covid-19

Cardiovascular aspect of covid-19 (another reason for preventative approaches to heart disease)

https://elemental.medium.com/coronavirus-may-be-a-blood-vessel-disease-which-explains-everything-2c4032481ab2

The General Problem:

“The world is in an “era of pandemics” and unless the destruction of the natural world is halted they will emerge more often, spread more rapidly, kill more people and affect the global economy with more devastating impact than ever before”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/29/protecting-nature-vital-pandemics-report-outbreaks-wild?fbclid=IwAR3y1HG_J46_Xq7VYj7kRMX6DqlCDyF2vUX-ay84o3d9EYoN1zYpPz5izx8

‘We should start thinking about the next one’: Coronavirus is just the first of many pandemics to come, environmentalists warn

https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/coronavirus-uk-pandemics-environmentalists-warning-a9413996.html

Coronavirus: Pandemics will be worse and more frequent unless we stop exploiting Earth and animals, top scientists warn

https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/coronavirus-pandemic-virus-disease-wildlife-environment-farming-infectious-a9487926.html

Coronavirus: Industrial animal farming has caused most new infectious diseases and risks more pandemics, experts warn

https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/coronavirus-meat-animal-farming-pandemic-disease-wet-markets-a9505626.html?fbclid=IwAR1MWgEtgI-JYzYLgo5PHRn8BNM3PoNxtQQC–CDhCvUokWwWc_B7RB3r60

Go vegan or risk further pandemics, experts warn

https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/vegan-campaign-wildlife-trade-market-ban-restrictions-viva-a9490696.html

Meat-eating creates risk of future pandemic that ‘would make Covid seem a dress rehearsal’, scientists warn

https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/meat-coronavirus-pandemic-science-animals-b1794996.html

Pandemics over the last 200 years