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Send to Kindle Demand for regular supplies of affordable meat will create future pandemics that will make Covid-19 pandemic look like a “dress rehearsal , scientists are warning. Producing meat is creating the perfect breeding ground for diseases of the same kind to emerge, according to the South African academics. The risk is created by humans’ interactions with animals and a lack of learning from the past, they say. The coronavirus pandemic, many of the early cases of which were linked to a live-animal-slaughter market in China, has killed around 2.2 million people worldwide in a year. Experts from both the UN and the European Food Safety Authority have previously identified industrial animal farming as the cause of most new infectious diseases in humans in the past decade, and have likewise warned it risks starting new pandemics. ....
Russia’s Booming Intensive Animal Farming ‘A Ticking Time Bomb’ for Future Viruses Following the discovery of the first case of H5N8 bird flu in humans, activists and virologists fear the country’s large-scale farms will become “petri dishes.” Russia s poultry production is rising. Yegor Aleyev / TASS As the world grapples with the coronavirus pandemic, Russia’s discovery of the world’s first cases of transmission of bird flu from animals to humans is prompting experts to warn that the country’s increasing large-scale industrial meat production could create conditions for future viruses to thrive. While the H5N8 strain of avian flu has been ravaging the global poultry industry for decades, with Germany and other European countries seeing their last major outbreak in the winter of 2016, Russia has become a hub for this strain and other bird flu viruses as it ramps up animal farming in the wake of bans ....
South African scientists have warned that rising demand for affordable meat and the expansion of intensive animal agriculture creates the ‘perfect breeding ground’ for the development of viruses that could spark future pandemics. With over 100m confirmed cases worldwide and more than 2m deaths, it is believed that the current COVID-19 crisis started in a Huanan wet market, where the first cluster of cases is thought to have originated. Currently, a WHO team are visiting sites in the Chinese city of Wuhan, attempting to piece together the puzzle of how SARS-CoV-2 passed from animals to humans. While the origin of SARS-CoV-2 is not yet fully determined, scientists at the University of the Free State in South Africa have outlined the link between food production, past pandemics and possible future crises. ....
Cheap meat makes future pandemics likely say scientists in South Africa 71 Scientists in South Africa warn that unless we change our relationship with meat, more pandemics look increasingly likely in the future. Our desire for cheap meat could land us in trouble in the future according to scientists. The term “once in a generation” has been used frequently to describe the havoc being wreaked by COVID-19. Yet some scientists feel that the current pandemic, which has already infected more than 16 million people and killed more than 600,000 people worldwide, is only a dress rehearsal for an even bigger one. The human demand for affordable meat is creating the perfect breeding ground for more diseases of this kind, scientists at the University of the Free State (UFS) in South Africa have claimed. ....
Keeping meat animals in conditions where they are stressed creates conditions for new viruses to form Demand for regular supplies of affordable meat will create future pandemics that will make Covid-19 pandemic look like a “dress rehearsal", scientists are warning. Producing meat is creating the perfect breeding ground for diseases of the same kind to emerge, according to the South African academics. The risk is created by humans’ interactions. ....