“We cannot protect against pandemics while continuing to eat meat regularly.
Much attention has been paid to wet markets, but factory farms, specifically poultry farms, are a more important breeding ground for pandemics.”
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“Further, the C.D.C. reports that three out of four new or emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic — the result of our broken relationship with animals.”/2
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“A 2015 study found that a vegetarian diet is $750 a year cheaper than a meat-based diet. People of color disproportionately self-identify as vegetarian and disproportionately are victims of factory farming’s brutality.”/3
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“The slaughterhouse employees currently being put at risk to satisfy our taste for meat are overwhelmingly brown and black.
Suggesting that a cheaper, healthier, less exploitative way of farming is elitist is in fact a piece of industry propaganda.”/4
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I have had these thoughts as well. My family is resistant to plant based. But I have already mostly been there as it is. It’s the only reason (the family) I haven’t totally stopped buying it. But I buy way less of it.
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I hear you. Have been thinking abt this a lot too as a friend who is vegan has kept reminding how this pandemic and prior epidemic are directly linked to eating meat. Just gotta get rid of hot dogs (!) as my kiddo loves them. Will switch them out to tofu dogs & see if he notices.
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Exactly. This should be about self preservation, IF ANYTHING - the angle of this piece in USA TODAY
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The end of (eating) meat is not near. The end of CAFOs is a good thing. Buy local. Eat green. Ruminants improve the soil and animal foods are the most nutritious.
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@nytopinion
I really believe this is true, yet it is so hard to stop eating meat. I did it for a year but then relapsed, and I've been relapsing ever since.
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But democrats will defend China when we talk about their wet markets and they being the cause of this.
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It's really about all Americans learning not to be pigs and adopting healthier eating habits.
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