What caused the COVID-19 outbreak?
Continued human encroachment on, and destruction of, natural habitats is a major cause of coronavirus and similar outbreaks. The COVID-19 pandemic remains something of a mystery, as scientists struggle to find out where the virus came from and how it entered the human...
COVID-19 unveils the meat industry’s ugly secrets
As the COVID-19 pandemic worsens, the meat industry is finding it harder to hide their unethical processes using euphemisms. Big meat companies have always shrouded their inhumane practices in colorless euphemisms, using words like “harvest” and “process” to refer to...
COVID-19 found in imported shrimp and chicken wings
Chinese health authorities in some cities have found traces of COVID-19 in meat products imported from South American meat plants. Two cities in China have found traces of the new coronavirus in imported frozen food and on food packaging, local authorities said on...
7 ways COVID-19 has created a global meat industry crisis
The current pandemic has exposed the animal slaughter industry’s weaknesses – proving that the food system is in need of change. The COVID-19 pandemic has created a crisis within the global meat industry. Since the beginning, when we first learned that the...
Pig farming is breeding the next pandemic
Changes in our eating habits and farming practices have dramatically ramped up pigs’ propensity to gin up new pathogens. In March of 2009, people in the rural Mexican village of La Gloria started coming down with a nasty respiratory infection. The town, located in the...
