Petition: Our Broken Relationship With Animals Caused This Pandemic. It Will Cause the Next One.

Public health experts have warned for years that the way humans confine and exploit animals is a pandemic engine. The U.S. CDC estimates that roughly three out of four emerging infectious diseases originate in animals, and the conditions that breed them look strikingly similar whether it’s a crowded wildlife market or an industrial factory farm: thousands of stressed animals packed together in filthy, poorly ventilated spaces make ideal incubators for viruses to mutate and jump to people. This petition argues that our broken relationship with animals is what drives pandemics — and that preventing the next one means confronting that root cause instead of only reacting once an outbreak is underway. Please sign the petition.

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We can keep spending on the aftermath — or we can address the source. Sign the petition to demand that policymakers treat industrial animal agriculture and wildlife exploitation as the public-health threats they are and invest in a safer, more humane food system. One Green Planet breaks down the connection in 5 Modern Diseases on the Rise Because of Factory Farming, and the Humane Society’s researchers lay out the risk in their report on how the next global pandemic could begin at a factory farm.

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