Shelter-in-place mandates, shuttered businesses and community spaces, and the loss of important social and familial rituals has found us confronting an unprecedented moment of alienation. We are profoundly disoriented by READ ON
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Unending Quarantine: We Are Not the Only Ones
California and New York Legislators Hope to Prevent Future Pandemics
On the heels of a bipartisan Congressional coalition’s letter to the World Health Organization and other intergovernmental bodies urging a worldwide ban on live animal or “wet” markets, legislators in California and READ ON
What Fauci’s Call to Shut Down ‘Wet Markets’ Means for All Slaughterhouses
Amid the Coronavirus pandemic, we are stunned by the lack of reporting on the source of the problem. Finally, after weeks of sparse coverage, we are beginning to see the READ ON
‘Predictable, Inevitable, Preventable’: Viral Outbreaks and Our Contact with Other Animals
“Predictable, inevitable, preventable.” Those are the words of Wendy Orent, an anthropologist specializing in health and pandemics, in describing the Novel Coronavirus outbreak.
Why Are We Ignoring the Root Cause of this Pandemic?
Language can inflame racism and prolongs solving the root of the problem that we now face: the wildlife trade and animal agriculture. Covid-19 could have originated in any country that READ ON
