AnimalAgri, Blogs, Coronavirus
Animal agriculture is morally and ethically wrong and it’s hardly surprising that keeping animals in dreadful conditions leads to the spread of disease. The coronavirus pandemic has killed over a hundred thousand people in the UK, destroyed our economy and...
AnimalAgri, Blogs, Coronavirus
The next pandemic will arrive sooner than we can imagine if we fail to learn our lesson. The continued destruction of nature is a recipe for disease. Disease X could kill 100 million people. The problem is, we don’t know what it is, where it is or when it will strike....
AnimalAgri, Blogs, Coronavirus
With increasing pandemics, ensuring nature is protected from human exploitation should be considered a life or death situation for humankind. No one who watched the first episode of It’s A Sin, Channel 4’s new drama about the spread of Aids in the early 1980s, can...
ClimateChange, Coronavirus
The world’s poorest suffer the most when crisis occurs. COVID-19 is a small taste of how bad things could become if climate change is not dealt with urgently. From wildfires in California and locust attacks in Ethiopia to job losses caused by pandemic lockdowns...
AnimalAgri, Coronavirus, GoodNews
The country’s pork industry is under strain after an outbreak of ASF. With the meat industry hit by COVID-19, its hard to tell if pig farms will survive. It was the stench of the wild boar’s carcass that first caught the rambler’s attention. Bits of hide and a...
AnimalAgri, Blogs, Coronavirus
Humans eat a ton of meat and the vast majority of it comes from factory farms. Factory farming presents a risk in both viral and bacterial pandemics, along with antibiotic resistance. When the novel coronavirus made the jump from animals to humans in China’s wet...
