If You Think Animal Welfare Has Nothing to Do With Your Health - Think Again
source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2011/feb/11/animal-human-health...
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Big agriculture, whether farms of hundreds of thousands of closely packed chickens or largescale irrigation projects that create new homes for disease spreaders like the mosquito, offer unprecedented opportunities for the emergence of new illnesses.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2011/feb/11/animal-...
Eliminating crowded, stressful confinement agriculture reduces the chance that diseases will jump from animals to humans with potentially devastating results. Also, by not applying antibiotics to animals that are sick from their environment in food factories, will give us tools to fight future diseases.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2011/feb/11/animal-...
Eliminating crowded, stressful confinement agriculture reduces the chance that diseases will jump from animals to humans with potentially devastating results. Also, by not applying antibiotics to animals that are sick from their environment in food factories, will give us tools to fight future diseases.
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- Animal Welfare
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- Disease, Viruses, Human Health, CAFO
