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United Nations and World Health Organisation chiefs are being warned they must lead radical overhauls of how humans treat animals to prevent future pandemics.
On the one-year anniversary of Covid-19 being declared a pandemic, a leading animal-welfare organisation is writing an open letter to those at the highest levels, accusing them and governments of tackling the symptoms but not the root cause of the pandemic.
The letter, which is addressed to the WHO, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), says that to prevent zoonotic pandemics, the world should “stop focusing on interim pharmaceutical solutions while not addressing the actual issues around animal abuse”.