The Hidden Link Between Factory Farms and Human Illness

“In recent decades,previously unknown diseases have surfaced at a pace unheard of in the recorded annals of medicine: more than 30 newly identified human pathogens in 30 years, most of them newly discovered zoonotic viruses...(Zoonotic viruses are those that can be passed from animals to humans.)...Factory farms represent the most significant change in the lives of animals in 10,000 years. This is not how animals were supposed to live.”

Dr. Michael Greger
Author of Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching

By Laura Sayre

"The situation is akin to that surrounding global climate change four or five years ago: near-universal scientific consensus matched by government inaction and media inattention. Although the specter of pandemic flu — in which a virulent strain of the influenza virus recombines with a highly contagious strain to create a bug rivaling that responsible for the 1918 flu pandemic, thought to have killed as many as 50 million people — is the most dire scenario, antibiotic resistance is a clear and present danger, already killing thousands of people in the United States each year..."

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