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✺ find out more about what i do & join my mailing list: http://www.earthlinged.org ✺ if you find my work valuable, you can become a supporter of my activism through the following links (thank you!): http://www.earthlinged.org/support & http://www.patreon.com/earthlinged ✺ download my FREE 122 page e-book: http://www.earthlinged.org/ebook ✺ make the switch to vegan & get all of the support you need: http://switchtovegan.co.uk / / / / / / / / / / / VIDEO / / / / / / / / / / / In this video I talk about how the current pandemic has taught us several fundamental lessons, and how in particular it has exposed the failings of the agricultural industries. I discuss how consumers are waking up to the inherent violence of animal farming and how, even though those most at risk of dying from COVID-19 are those with underlying health conditions, such as heart disease, the animal agriculture industries are still campaigning to get people to eat more animal products. #COVID19 #Pandemic #Veganism Big shout out to my good friends Derek & Chad: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF4FF7ZzsDfcxFg3g68eY5A Make sure you download our free white paper on COVID-19 & animal exploitation here: https://surgeactivism.org/covid19 / / / / / / / / / / CONNECT / / / / / / / / / / ✺ instagram: http://www.instagram.com/earthlinged ✺ facebook: http://www.facebook.com/earthlingedpage PODCAST (the disclosure podcast): ✺ itunes: https://apple.co/3853BF2 ✺ spotify: https://spoti.fi/37ZtGVS ✺ RSS feed: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/254157.rss my animal rights organisation surge: ✺ surge: http://www.surgeactivism.org ✺ land of hope and glory (uk ‘earthlings’ documentary): http://www.landofhopeandglory.org my non-profit restaurant: ✺ unity diner: http://www.unitydiner.co.uk thank you for watching & supporting. SOURCES: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_ppXSABYLY https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8372727/Thousands-pigs-steamed-death-Iowas-largest-pork-producer.html https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/02/meat-plant-workers-us-coronavirus-war https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/15/21259997/plant-based-meat-coronavirus-impossible-beyond https://www.plantbasednews.org/culture/-elizabeth-warren-cory-booker-ban-factory-farming https://www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2019/09/05/Behind-the-success-of-Wicked-Kitchen-at-Tesco-We-make-cool-f-king-food#:~:text=Since%20its%20launch%20in%20Tesco,Healthy%20co%2Dfounder%20Derek%20Sarno https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/meat-dairy-vegan-diet-plant-based-lockdown-quarantine-supermarket-a9488036.html https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20616997/ https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/13/coronavirus-goldman-sachs-says-livestock-looking-as-precarious-as-oil.html

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We've engineered the perfect environment for deadly new germs. Become a Video Lab member! http://bit.ly/video-lab In the last half-century, the global production of meat has undergone a seismic shift. While meat was once mostly raised on small farms, today almost all the meat we eat comes from industrialized “factory” farms, known as “concentrated animal feeding operations,” or CAFOs. Animals in CAFOs are often packed closely together, which makes them both efficient and, for many, ethically dubious. But infectious disease experts worry about CAFOs for a different reason: Because they’re also an ideal environment for virus and bacteria mutations that human immune systems have never seen. In other words, they’re a highly likely source for the next pandemic. You can read more about the pathogen risks in factory farming at Vox.com: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/4/22/21228158/coronavirus-pandemic-risk-factory-farming-meat A deeper look at the threat of antibiotic resistant bacteria: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/5/7/18535480/drug-resistance-antibiotics-un-report Further reading on how RNA virus reassortment works: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5119462/ Martha Nelson's study tracking the origins of the 2009 H1N1 virus: https://elifesciences.org/articles/16777 Read more about the sources of meat produced around the world from the Sentience Institute: https://www.sentienceinstitute.org/global-animal-farming-estimates The US Center for Disease Control's timeline of the H1N1 pandemic: https://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/cdcresponse.htm A hopeful look at where factory farming might be headed in the US: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/12/20/21028200/factory-farms-abuse-workers-animals-and-the-environment-cory-booker-has-a-plan-to-stop-them Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com. Watch our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE Follow Vox on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o Or Twitter: http://goo.gl/XFrZ5H

It’s never been easier for animal pathogens to spill over into humans. Become a Video Lab member! http://bit.ly/video-lab Over the last 40 years, disease outbreaks among humans have become more and more frequent. The majority of those diseases are zoonoses, or diseases that originated in animals, like Ebola, West Nile virus, and probably Covid-19. But what makes zoonotic outbreaks likelier than ever is actually something humans are doing. According to science journalist Sonia Shah, author of the 2017 book "Pandemic," the expansion of humans onto more and more of the planet’s land has increased the likelihood of disease outbreaks in two ways. First, as humans move into what were once animal habitats, we end up living closer to animals that might contain dangerous pathogens; and second, as we destroy or alter animal habitats, we’re driving away or killing off animals that once served as a “firewall” between those pathogens and us. And the human land development driving this trend shows no signs of stopping. Correction: At 4:28 and 4:49 we mistakenly depict the European robin. The species actually responsible for the spread of West Nile virus in North America is the American robin. Further reading: Vox’s Sigal Samuel interviews Sonia Shah: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/3/31/21199917/coronavirus-covid-19-animals-pandemic-environment-climate-biodiversity Sonia Shah’s book Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond http://soniashah.com/pandemic-the-book/ The World Health Organization’s retrospective on the 2014 Ebola outbreak: https://www.who.int/csr/disease/ebola/ebola-6-months/guinea/en/ World Wildlife Fund 2018 Living Planet Report: https://c402277.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/publications/1187/files/original/LPR2018_Full_Report_Spreads.pdf Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com. Watch our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE Follow Vox on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o Or Twitter: http://goo.gl/XFrZ5H