{"id":2898,"date":"2020-09-03T22:39:55","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T03:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/veganoptioncanada.org\/?p=2898"},"modified":"2020-09-03T22:53:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T03:53:00","slug":"meat-and-pandemics-the-surprising-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/veganoptioncanada.ca\/en\/news\/meat-and-pandemics-the-surprising-link\/","title":{"rendered":"Meat and pandemics: the surprising link"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Meat is a threat to national security. Unless society notices, we won't prevent future pandemics.<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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How do we prevent future pandemics? This is the question on everyone’s minds as lockdown is slowly lifted.\u00a0<\/p>

Society won\u2019t grasp the answer until it faces up to an uncomfortable truth. We might love it dearly, but meat is a key factor in the origin of pandemics.\u00a0Scientists have told us that meat from a Chinese wet market\u00a0may<\/a>\u00a0have caused Covid-19 to jump to humans.\u00a0Many of us accept this\u00a0widely held explanation.<\/p>

This is not an isolated case. Tracing the history of pandemics reveals a more sinister lesson, about meat production in general. The swine flu epidemic of 2009 killed up to\u00a0575,400<\/a>\u00a0people in a year. The cause of its origin in humans? The international trade of pig meat between America and Eurasia, according to the\u00a0US Center for Disease Control<\/a>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Most scientists\u00a0believe<\/a>\u00a0that HIV reached humans via the practice of eating chimpanzees. And\u00a0bird flu<\/a>\u00a0is strongly linked to the world\u2019s favourite meat: chicken. The\u00a0United Nations<\/a>\u00a0recently underlined the pattern: the pathogens that afflict humans often come from livestock and bushmeat.<\/p>

And meat-borne pandemics may follow us in years to come. Or even sooner. Last week, research was\u00a0published<\/a>\u00a0indicating that a new form of swine flu is circulating in farmed pigs. The researchers warn that the virus has “all the essential hallmarks”\u00a0of a possible pandemic.<\/p>

This week also brought bad news. Authorities have raised the alarm after Inner Mongolia saw a re-emergence of the bubonic plague. The new cases of this medieval menace have been linked to the consumption of marmot meat.<\/p>

Here\u2019s one reason why meat and\u00a0pandemics are intertwined. According to the US Center for Disease Control,\u00a0three in four<\/a>\u00a0new infectious diseases in humans come from our interactions with animals. And farming and eating animals is a major and risky source of interaction between humans and animals.<\/p>

Humans eat animals in their tens of billions per year. In fact,\u00a028 billion farmed animals<\/a>\u00a0populate the planet right now. This is especially risky, because in many farms animals are tightly packed in together in vast numbers and their genetic similarity, fostered through breeding practices,\u00a0lowers barriers<\/a>\u00a0to the incubation of a fresh virus. We afford pathogens many opportunities to act as their hosts. We are inviting viruses to dinner.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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While the link between pandemics and meat is well documented in the pages of scientific journals, it\u2019s almost absent on the airwaves and from\u00a0national conversation. In fact, in three ways the language we use is burying this crucial finding.<\/p>

First, we refer to animals as the cause of pandemics, as if they are the responsible agents who might just have been more careful.\u00a0We often use derogatory terms to pick out the offending creatures. We refer to \u201cvermin\u201d or \u201cswine\u201d flu. This encourages the attitude that animals are just unclean and we cannot be held responsible that\u00a0they\u00a0<\/em>give\u00a0us\u00a0<\/em>diseases.<\/p>

Second, we use generalities and technical language. We are told that \u201ccontact with animals\u201d is a risk factor, and that \u201czoonotic overspill\u201d was the trigger of the pandemic. Even where eating meat is the type of contact in question, we often skirt around the issue that society might need to change.<\/p>

Third, when meat is directly acknowledged as among the causes of pandemics, we in the West often palm this off onto eastern nations. Our supermarkets are painted as safe, in comparison to \u201ccurious\u201d places described as \u201cwet markets\u201d.<\/p>

Anthony Fauci, the leading US Government scientific advisor on Covid-19, said of\u00a0wet meat markets: \u201cIt boggles my mind how when we have so many diseases that emanate out of that unusual human-animal interface, that we don\u2019t just shut it down. I don\u2019t know what else has to happen to get us to appreciate that\u2026\u00a0because what we\u2019re going through right now, is a direct result of that\u201d.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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But the West plays with fire too. The West is the king of factory farming, and we know that industrial animal farming also poses a significant threat. The US is well-known for its giant feedlots.<\/p>

Many think that Britain has the decency to reject this way of farming animal. But\u00a0factory farming is on the rise in the UK, as documented by\u00a0the\u00a0Bureau for Investigative Journalism<\/a>.<\/p>

It now has around 800 mega-farms, defined as units with over 1,000 cows, 2,500 pigs or 125,000 chickens. The county of Herefordshire alone hosts over 16 million factory farmed animals: this is 88 times more than its human population.<\/p>

So, if we Westerners want to shut down wet markets, we should also want to shut down factory farms. We just do not immediately consider this an option, because we are used to a mass meat society and because vested interests influence policy and debate. But we must be consistent. It is not just wet meat markets that risk causing pandemics. Western-style animal farming does too.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Governments need to step in to maximise our safety. Their role in protecting citizens extends beyond policing and counter-terrorism, to food safety. Meat has become a national security issue.<\/p>

But they won\u2019t step in unless we make them. They think it\u2019s not a \u201cvote-winner\u201d. They think we\u2019ll turn on them if they make food safer by shifting away from meat. We must relieve them of the notion we\u2019re so stubborn.<\/p>

And so, each of us strengthens the protective bubble around our family when we let the world know we want a safe food system. We parry further devastation every time we give meat the cold shoulder.<\/p>

The world sleepwalked into coronavirus. This has cost us so much both in terms of the loss of life and also the impact on jobs and the economy. Governments must wake up and realise the risks they are taking with our lives. And we must ask whether, to us, meat is worth its cost.<\/p>

If ending the era of pandemics means moving past meat, so be it: our families will be safer for it.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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William Gildea is a doctoral researcher in philosophy at the University of Warwick. His twitter handle is @will_gildea<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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