Health
8 frightening facts about animal-based foods
We may have just missed Halloween but if you didn’t get your fill of frights, read on to discover eight frightening facts about animal-based foods.
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We may have just missed Halloween but if you didn’t get your fill of frights, read on to discover eight frightening facts about animal-based foods.
The exploitation, misuse and abuse of wild and farmed animals is pushing us closer to the next pandemic – it’s time to go vegan now!
Fur farms provide a bridge between people and viruses circulating in wildlife, this is how pandemics start.
Bird flu has been detected in foxes and otters in the UK, is the demand for cheap chicken increasing the risk of another pandemic?
Campylobacter is the main cause of food poisoning in the UK and it is estimated that there are more than half a million cases and 80,000 GP consultations every year in the UK. Campylobacter bacteria are prevalent in farmed animals such as chickens, pigs, cattle and sheep, and have also been found in shellfish.
Most of the meat people eat today comes from genetically uniform, immunocompromised, regularly drugged animals packed by the thousands into filthy sheds or stacked cages. The perfect environment for emerging diseases.
Scientists have been warning us for years that the next pandemic could come from a factory farm. Let’s end factory farming before it ends us!
Poultry, pigs and cows are a significant source of this food poisoning bug but they may show no signs of infection and infected foods usually look and smell normal. Factory farms provide the ideal environment for Salmonella bacteria to spread as they are shed in the faeces of infected animals.
As we are fast-approaching a post-antibiotic era, the effectiveness of antibiotics used to treat human illnesses may be reduced if pathogens and resistance genes from the agricultural environment are repeatedly, but silently, being introduced into the human population.
