Research findings released today by World Animal Protection has laid bare the most damaging human health impacts linked to industrial livestock production systems. It further shows how these negative health impacts will only get worse as the demand for meat continues to grow. Over seventy percent of the 80 billion land animals farmed globally are raised and slaughtered within cruel industrial livestock production systems annually. On top of this threat, industrial livestock production systems squash animals into tightly packed sheds, risking disease like swine flu or bird flu that can jump to humans. We need a moratorium on Industrial Livestock Production systems.”African governments should recognize the inter-connectivity between public health and planetary impacts of industrialized farming systems and commit to stopping the support for these systems.

Source: News Business Ethiopia April 27, 2022 21:01 UTC