How to Live a Healthy and Happy Vegan Lifestyle

  ''T he potential for another pandemic is not an abstract concept; it is a stark reality that requires our immediate attention. The key lies in acknowledging our role in these possible future outbreaks and taking decisive action to prevent them. By embracing a vegan lifestyle and advocating for ethical treatment of animals, we can pave the way for a healthier, safer world for ourselves and for generations to come.'' Michael Corthell In a world teeming with interconnected ecosystems and intricate relationships between species, the potential for a new pandemic looms ever larger. As a passionate vegan activist, I urge us all to recognize the urgent need for pandemic preparedness by acknowledging the role our exploitative interactions with animals play in fostering the emergence of deadly diseases. If we fail to heed this call, we risk repeating history's tragic mistakes and endangering countless lives. The disconcerting reality is that our current practices of facto...

'The report provides a stark warning about the devastating public  health risks of exploiting wild animals ' The World Health Organization (WHO) has listed the wildlife trade and fur farming as ‘areas of interest’ in its latest report on the origin of COVID-19. The Animal and Environmental Studies section of the document states that the possible pathways of emergence considered to be ‘likely to very likely’ was introduction via an intermediary host. Fur farming and wildlife trade A specific recommendation in the report calls for ‘surveys for SARSr-CoVs in farmed wildlife or livestock that have potential to be infected’. This includes species bred for food such as ferret-badgers and civets. As well animals such as mink bred for fur. Non-profit the Humane Society International (HSI) says the report shows that fur farming and wildlife trading ‘must be banned’. It branded the practices a ‘petri dish for the next global pandemic’. Continue...  

Oluwo Fish Market teems with life. It is a wet market just outside Lagos, Nigeria's largest city. ITV News secretly filmed there - a place awash with animals - alive and dead. Scientists believe wet markets are a breeding ground for disease, a high risk environment, from where the next pandemic could emerge. The very concept of a “wet market” means the presence of blood and bodily fluids. It is a marketplace selling fresh meat and fish, as opposed to a “dry market” that sells durable products. Not all wet markets sell live animals. Not all of them trade in wild and exotic animals, but some do, and some of those have been linked to outbreaks of zoonotic diseases, where an infection crosses the species barrier from animal to human. Exhibit A. Covid-19. The pandemic that allegedly originated at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, China .  Continue

A member of the World Health Organization investigative team says wildlife farms in southern China are the most likely source of the COVID-19 pandemic. China shut down those wildlife farms in February 2020, says Peter Daszak , a disease ecologist with EcoHealth Alliance and a member of the WHO delegation that traveled to China this year. During that trip, Daszak says, the WHO team found new evidence that these wildlife farms were supplying vendors at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan with animals. Daszak told NPR that the government response was a strong signal that the Chinese government thought those farms were the most probable pathway for a coronavirus in bats in southern China to reach humans in Wuhan. Those wildlife farms, including ones in the Yunnan region, are part of a unique project that the Chinese government has been promoting for 20 years now. Continue