Animal-to-Human Diseases kill millions every year, and have the potential to kill billions. About 60 percent of all human diseases and 75 percent of all emerging infectious diseases originate from animals… with most coming from livestock, including cattle, chickens, pigs, goats, sheep and camels.
The real cause of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), SARS, MERS, HIV, and most annual flu and flu pandemics including the 2009 H1N1 (Swine Flu) is animal farming… and other exploitations of animals by humans.
Packing barns and feedlots for increase profits, the meat industry routinely uses antibiotics reduce their bacterial disease losses, along with the other motivation being that antibiotics accelerates the animals’ growth rate. Antibiotics doesn’t address the virus risk that them doing this poses though. Because antibiotics are only effective against bacteria, not viruses. The use of antibiotics in animal farming accounts for 70% of all the antibiotics sold in the United States. This excessive use of antibiotics is responsible for the creation of “Super Bugs.” With strains evolving to become antibiotic resistant, unstoppable and untreatable killer bacteria.
Wild animal farming adds to the already serious animal farming risk problem by bringing more animals species into close contact with each other and humans. This increases the number of possible virus pathways combinations for new animals to human diseases to form and make the jump. Resulting in potentially deadly to human novel viruses to add to the ones already happening in traditional animal farming industries.
Every year foodborne diseases cause as many as 600 million illnesses and 420,000 deaths worldwide, with the biggest causes of foodborne illness being from norovirus, Campylobacter, Salmonella, and E. coli.
Don’t mistakenly think that you’re safe because you live in a more developed countries like the United States. Because an incredibly high percentage of the flesh from chickens, turkeys, cows, fish, and pigs in the U.S. are contaminated with E. coli, campylobacter, listeria, or other dangerous bacteria. Campylobacter is the most common cause of food poisoning in the UK and campylobacter can be found on almost half of the chicken sold in the grocery stores in developed countries.
Just take a look at what the CDC tells us about Food-Related Illness and Death just in the United States.
Even the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) admits that 70 percent of food poisoning is caused by contaminated animal flesh. So if you want to reduce your chances of getting sick and dying, stop eating animals.
So long as you continue to buy and consume animal products you are risking your own life and the lives of others. You can stop being part of the problem and become part of the solution by switching to a plant-based diet or becoming fully vegan.
Dr. Sean Larkin is a retired chiropractor who’s originally from the United States, but is now based in the Philippines. He’s a vegan and cares deeply about the wellbeing of people and the planet. Dr. Sean is strong advocate for using chiropractic care and other natural healing methods, including health promoting nutrition to improve lives.
