Covid-19 Was Preventable!

 

Zoonotic diseases, the cause of most epidemics and pandemics, including Covid-19, are caused by human – animal interaction.  The most serious infectious diseases are zoonotic, causing an estimated 3 million human deaths per year even before the current Covid-19 pandemic.  Zoonotic disease is caused by a pathogen that “spills over”, from animals to humans.  Infections are then transmitted directly among humans.

Emerging diseases are almost invariably zoonotic.  An estimated 60% of all viruses that infect humans came from animals, and 75% of all new infectious diseases in the past decade are zoonotic.  Examples include Covid-19, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Ebola virus, SARS, MERS, Swine Flu, and Avian Flu, and many others including the deadliest pandemics in history: Black Death, Spanish Flu, HIV, and now Covid-19. 

The global rate of zoonotic disease is increasing.  Without understanding the creation of zoonoses - abuse and exploitation of the non-human species buy the human speciesism, including eating them, wearing them, using them for entertainment, and unnecessary tests, or Speciesism, and rectifying these issues, it is impossible to prevent the next pandemic. 

 

Starvation of the Vulnerable Linked To Diet of the Affluent

 

Of planet Earth’s nearly 7 billion humans, roughly 1 billion people are malnourished and 6 million children starve to death annually as a result of the meat and dairy based diet of the affluent.

Farming individuals is notoriously wasteful when compared to growing plants to feed humans directly.  “Livestock” animals, individuals raised for meat and dairy, take drastically more food from the global food supply than they provide.

Crops necessary to feed individuals raised for human food are vastly more crops than it would take to feed humans directly.  It takes thirteen pounds of grain to yield just one pound of beef.  Crops such as soy and lentils produce, pound for pound, as much protein as beef, and sometimes more.

Feeding half the world’s edible grain crop to farmed individuals is a grossly inefficient use of protein and a waste of natural resources.  It requires far more land, water and energy than cultivating plant foods for direct human consumption.

One acre of land can yield between twelve and twenty times more plant food than animal-based foods.  This is also true of water usages.  Pollution of water, air and land, human mortality and morbidity, as well as starvation of the world’s most vulnerable people also result from the affluent’s meat and dairy based diet.

 

 

Animal Sacrifice in the Himalayas

In Bangladesh, Nepal, and other parts of the Himalaya region, religious animal sacrifices take place on a regular basis.  This is the part of the world that not too long ago would burn girls, as young as ten years old, in oil soaked wedding dresses, as ‘brides’ if the man they had been arranged to marry died in Nepal.

 “I’ve seen these kinds of horrors before, but the torture that I have witnessed during Eid al-Adha scarred me for the rest of my life.”  Animal Rescue Mission (ARM)  undercover investigator.

 The Eid al-Adha animal sacrifice festival is horrendous.  Millions of cows, goats, sheep, and even camels travel in a mass caravan by boats, trucks, and ‘death trains’. They are crammed into unhygienic and unsafe transport units.  They suffer in the unforgiving sun, often succumbing to severe dehydration and exhaustion.  Restrained by tight ropes. Swarmed by zealous mobs. Executed with machetes. 

Not even pregnant and newborn animals are safe during Eid al-Adha.  Their final destination is Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, and the epicenter of an animal sacrifice that will leave blood flooding the streets.  Despite the current restrictions of the pandemic, nothing is standing in the way of slaughtering these animals.  The festival will proceed.

 

An Inside Look at Dairy - Beastiality

An Inside Look at Dairy - Beastiality

This is where milk comes from and how it is produced.  Semen is collected from bulls by forcing them to ejaculate using either an artificial vagina or an instrument called an electroejaculator.  With the first method, a steer (castrated male) is restrained with a nose ring and used as a ‘teaser’ animal to be mounted. The bull is also tethered and controlled with a nose ring. After the male bull mounts the male steer and attempts penetration, his exposed penis is grabbed by a worker. It is then diverted to a long plastic sleeve or ‘artificial vagina’ held in the worker’s other hand.  Both male animals are tethered by a harsh metal nose rings as their sexual organs are manipulated by humans.  Nose ringing is a very distressing and painful process for the animals.  With electroejaculation, an anal probe is inserted into the bull’s rectum and electric shock applied to the muscles that control ejaculation.

Nearly 80% of dairy cows in the U.S. are forcibly inseminated once a year.  This is a crude procedure that involves a farmer inserting one arm up to his elbow inside the cow’s rectum.  Then the farmer optimally positions her cervix, and uses his other hand to insert an ‘artificial insemination gun’.  Semen is shot into her vagina.  Rectal violation plays no part in natural bovine copulation.  This brutal procedure commonly results in the cow violently and painfully defecating. 

Do not support this.  Drink plant milk and eat plant based cheese and ice cream.  Thanks.

From 'Livestock's Long Shadow'

Animal exploitation is not only the cause of zoonotic disease, such as covid-19, HIV, SARS, MERS, and the historic Spanish Flu and Black Death, but is destroying the planet.

The livestock business is among the most damaging sectors to the earth’s increasingly scarce water resources, contributing to water pollution, euthropication and the degeneration of coral reefs.  The major polluting agents are animal wastes, antibiotics and hormones, chemicals from tanneries, fertilizers and the pesticides used to spray crops.  Widespread overgrazing disturbs water cycles, reducing replenishment of above and below ground water resources.  Significant amounts of water are withdrawn for the production of feed.

Meat and dairy animals now account for about 20 percent of all terrestrial animal biomass.  Livestock’s presence in vast tracts of land and its demand for feed crops also contribute to biodiversity loss; 15 out of 24 important ecosystem services are assessed as in decline, with livestock identified as a culprit.

Livestock now use 30 percent of the earth’s entire land surface, mostly permanent pasture but also including 33 percent of the global arable land used to producing feed for livestock.  Forests are cleared to create new pastures causing deforestation, especially in Latin America where 70 percent of former forests in the Amazon have been turned over to grazing.

It is time to stop exploiting innocent, defenseless individuals, and begin to recognize their value as individuals, and in the process save them, ourselves, and the planet.

Let's Get Animals Off the Menu Before We All Perish!

Let’s get animals off the menus and out of the torture chambers before we all perish from species induced zoonotic disease like Covid-19!

If any nation had developed weapons that could wreck such havoc on the world as the meat and dairy industry, we would bomb it.  Zoonotic disease such as Covid-19, SARS, MERS, HIV, and Ebola are all caused by pathogens that transfer from animals to humans.  Weapons of mass destruction are our own knives and forks. 

Eliminating meat, dairy, and speciesism will solve our environmental, water, and human health problems, and end cruelty.  Farming won’t end, it will boom.  Only the product line will change.  Governments will love it.  Health insurance premiums will plummet because meat and dairy cause a wide range of cancers and heart disease.

Animals are not just another species, they are other nations.  We murder them at our peril.  Peace is not just the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.  Justice must be blind to race, color, religion, or species.  There is unimaginable terror in those “factory farms” and “slaughterhouses”.  It spills over as zoonotic disease.  Pandemics will continue and getting worse!  Another world is possible, let’s make it happen! Go vegan!

Covid-19 is Zoonotic, Eliminate the Cause!

COVID-19 originated from an animal bought and murdered in a live animal or ‘wet’ market, which exist all over the world.  Scientific evidence indicates the virus originated from a bat coronavirus, transferred to an intermediate host, an animal sold for consumption or traditional medicine.  It ultimately evolved into SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus responsible for COVID-19, and spread to humans. 

Zoonotic diseases, the cause of most epidemics and pandemics, result from exploitation of animals.  The most serious infectious diseases are zoonotic, caused by a pathogen “spills over” from animals to humans, and then transmitted directly among humans.

Emerging diseases are almost invariably zoonotic.  Examples include Covid-19, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Ebola virus, SARS, MERS, Swine Flu, and Avian Flu, among many others.  Zoonoses have caused the deadliest pandemics in history: Black Death, Spanish Flu, HIV, and now Covid-19.  Zoonotic diseases are increasing.  Without eliminating their cause - exploitation and abuse of other species - it is impossible to prevent the next pandemic.  It is time to treat innocent animals with the dignity and respect they deserve, if only for safety reasons.