Eating Meat Isn't Just Unethical – It's Suicidal
Imagine a world in which humans had never eaten meat. Then, one day, a big food company announces their new range: they’re going to sell animal flesh products.
The adverts say they’re going to kill 70 billion land animals every year – 90 per cent of them from intensive factory farms. They accept it will cause huge pollution and climate change, but dinners will be tastier.
They say it will cause occasional food poisoning and probably some pandemics, but there’s going to be a salty version of pigs called “bacon”, and we’ll love it.
Would any of this sound like a good deal to you? Would you buy the food and support the industry?
Think about it, because this is what you’re doing if you eat meat or dairy.
The meat and dairy industries already imprison and slaughter more than 70 billion land animals each year, and their greedy rackets are already destroying the environment and causing pandemics.
The meat industry is killing 70 billion animals a year, causing deadly pandemics and destroying the planet. Is your bacon sandwich really worth it?
A new UN report said the number of zoonotic epidemics – the ones that can be transmitted from animals to people – is rising, from Ebola to Sars to West Nile virus and Rift Valley fever. The authors warned that although the world is treating the health and economic symptoms of this coronavirus pandemic, governments are ignoring the root causes: humans’ destruction of nature and meat eating.
A white paper found that nearly every major zoonotic disease outbreak of the last 120 years is inextricably linked to animal exploitation, including meat consumption. The human cost is huge: even before Covid-19, two million people die from zoonotic diseases each year.
The connection between animal and human lives is becoming clearer to see. Only this month, a new strain of flu with the potential to become a pandemic was identified in China. Researchers said the infections started in people who were working in the pork industry —...
