Coronavirus - Animal Agriculture and Climate Change

Preventing pandemics requires encouraging nature conservation

Investing in nature conservation efforts to protect animals and the natural world could be the answer to preventing future pandemics. I think about that bat a lot. You know the bat I mean. I think about how it was likely captured from a forest in China – or...

Documents confirm, meat packing industry created unsafe workspaces despite pandemic

AnimalAgri, Coronavirus, GoodNews

Documents from the USDA confirm that the meat industry fought Trump era COVID-19 safety guidelines leading to multiple deaths. Documents obtained from the United States Department of Agriculture by the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen and published Wednesday...

COVID-19 may have been the result of pig consumption

AnimalAgri, Coronavirus, GoodNews

Experts are saying it might be possible that COVID-19 was a result of African Swine Flu outbreak amongst pig livestock in China. An outbreak of a deadly pig disease may have set the stage for Covid-19 to take hold in humans, a new analysis has suggested. African swine...

COVID-19: A result of man-made environmental damage

Coronavirus

The abhorrent way in which we have been treating nature and the animals we kill for food is causing pandemics that could become more frequent. RELEASED from quarantine in a hotel in Wuhan, China, this January, Peter Daszak made for the wildlife market linked to the...

What is Zoonoses and how does it impact you?

AnimalAgri, Blogs, Coronavirus

Zoonotic diseases such as COVID-19 are one of the biggest threats to humans and yet they are usually caused by people destroying nature and abusing animals. Zoonotic diseases or zoonoses are animal infections that people can catch. Viruses, bacteria, parasites, and...

French mayor taking meat off the menu for schools sparks major political row

AnimalAgri, Coronavirus, GoodNews

A decision by the Green Mayor of Lyon, seen by many as the country’s culinary capital, to temporarily take meat off the menu in school canteens during the coronavirus pandemic has sparked a major political row in France. The city’s green mayor, Grégory Doucet,...