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
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California and New York Legislators Hope to Prevent Future Pandemics
‘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
‘Everything eats and is eaten’: false statement and poor excuse for choosing to harm animals
When we say, ‘Everything eats and is eaten,’ we are also implying a conclusion which is something like, “Therefore eating animals is justified because it’s natural.” But there are many READ ON
Why Plant Crops Don’t Kill More Wildlife than Pasture Raised Animals
Picture this: You’re a harvest mouse who lives in a wheat field. Being a mouse, you have excellent hearing and can easily pick up sounds that a human cannot hear. READ ON
