Coronavirus - Animal Agriculture and Climate Change

Meat Company Puts Employees At COVID-19 Risk

Smithfield Foods’ South Dakota meat plant is responsible for 180 cases of COVID-19. Nationally 518 of their employees have tested positive. A team from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has arrived in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to help with the...

After COVID-19 We Must Create a Better “Normal”

ClimateChange, Coronavirus, GoodNews, HealthyLiving

We became comfortable with bad systems which led to the current disaster according to Dae-oup Chang, author of Capitalist Development in Korea. It starts from the “frontiers of outbreak zones” where deforestation and destruction of the ecosystem enable animal...

Coronavirus is a huge crisis but Climate Change is far, far bigger

ClimateChange, Coronavirus

The world is in lockdown and in crisis as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, but beyond that, the greatest environmental crisis ever awaits the Planet. The Climate Crisis is going to test us as nothing has done to date and is an existential crisis we are going to...

Shut down the 80 wet markets in New York City amid Coronavirus crisis

AnimalAgri, Coronavirus

New York City has been urged to shut its wet markets in light of the coronavirus pandemic. The leading theory is that the coronavirus originated from a wet market in Wuhan, China towards the end of 2019. Since then, it has spread globally, killing around 150,000...

Workers Are Getting Sick From Coronavirus Resulting in Meat Plant Closures

AnimalAgri, Coronavirus

Major meat processors are starting to shut down plants as employees are getting infected by the coronavirus right across the country. Tyson (TSN), one of the world’s largest meat processors, suspended operations at its Columbus Junction, Iowa, pork plant this...

Jane Goodall Urges Public to be Conscious Consumers

AnimalAgri, Coronavirus, GoodNews, VegansInNews

World-renowned conservationist Dr Jane Goodall has blamed “disrespect for animals,” and destructive behavior towards nature for the coronavirus outbreak. World-renowned British primatologist Jane Goodall says the coronavirus pandemic was caused by...