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THE MEDIA ROOM

Welcome to our media library. Here, you'll discover the many aspects of our connection to viral outbreaks. From leading  scientists and experts weighing in, as well as to high profile journalists and documentarists, learn more about how and why our food system is a liability in the fight to prevent future pandemics. 

What is the origin of zoonotic diseases? | Mongabay Explains
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What is the origin of zoonotic diseases? | Mongabay Explains

Although the origin of the new coronavirus is not yet certain, some scientists suggest that SARS-Cov-2 originated in bats. COVID-19 is most likely a zoonotic disease, as it was transmitted from an animal to a human. It is not the only zoonotic disease humans have faced. Others have emerged before and will continue to do so as long as we allow certain human practices on our planet, experts warn. #mongabay #zoonoticdisease #COVID19 #biodiversity #publichealth ---- Mongabay is a nonprofit environmental science and conservation news platform that produces original reporting in English, Indonesian, Spanish, French, Hindi, and Brazilian Portuguese. Check out https://www.mongabay.com/. Watch more of our videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/MongabayTV Subscribe to Mongabay’s newsletter: https://mongabay.us14.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=80161fe385606408293ae0e51&id=940652e1f4 Follow Mongabay on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mongabay Follow Mongabay on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mongabay Follow Mongabay on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mongabay/
The Secret Weapon Against Pandemics That Nobody Wants to Talk About | Alex O'Connor | TEDxWarwick
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The Secret Weapon Against Pandemics That Nobody Wants to Talk About | Alex O'Connor | TEDxWarwick

Alex O’Connor is a prominent podcaster, YouTuber and student at the University of Oxford. In his TEDx talk, Alex puts forward the case against factory farming, not only based on ethical concerns, but also by exploring how factory farms can become breeding grounds for Zoonotic viruses. Alex O'Connor is a prominent YouTuber and podcaster. He has amassed over 400,000 subscribers, and his videos on Philosophy and Ethics have been viewed over 37 million times across the globe. He is the creator and host of the Cosmic Skeptic podcast, which has welcomed guests such as Richard Dawkins and Peter Singer. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
Plant-Based Food System or System Collapse? | Pandemic-Proofing our Plates
05:29

Plant-Based Food System or System Collapse? | Pandemic-Proofing our Plates

There is a single species responsible for the current pandemic: Us. Humans. This isn’t our first pandemic...and if we don't stop eating animals, it definitely won’t be our last. COVID-19 has been merely the dress rehearsal for future global zoonotic disease outbreaks. Zoonotic diseases are diseases that originate in other animals and spread to humans. Well-known examples are SARS, Avian / Bird Flu, Swine Flu, Mad Cow Disease, Ebola, HIV, Measles, Smallpox, the "Spanish" Flu … and, of course, COVID-19. Every year, we slaughter over 70 billion land animals for food around the world, with more than 90% of them in factory farms. This number doesn’t include the TRILLIONS of sea animals we kill around the globe on an annual basis. Whether in a wet market or a barn, large numbers of highly stressed animals with weakened immune systems, living side-by-side and on top of one another, in cramped and filthy conditions, is the perfect breeding ground for viruses to flourish, mutate, and jump to humans. All farms, whether small and family-run or large industrial complexes, keep animals in intensively confined spaces like large-scale incubators where diseases can spread easily. These animals are NOT social distancing. But free-range or regenerative agriculture is not the answer. Raising animals on smaller farms results in mass deforestation to provide pasture for animals to graze and also to grow other crops to feed them, leading to massive encroachments into the natural world and causing biodiversity loss. Such environmentally destructive practices bring humans and domesticated animals in closer contact with wild animals and their pathogens. We must demand that our governments, the media, and the public stop ignoring the source of pandemics happening time and again around the world, which is our dangerous and broken animal-based food system. By transitioning to a plant-based food system, we can stop zoonotic disease outbreaks in their tracks. All the masks, social distancing, vaccinations, and hand sanitizer in the world will not avoid the next, and potentially worse, global outbreak. Let’s take pandemics off the menu and make plant-based eating…the “new normal”. For more information, please visit www.EatingAnimalsCausesPandemics.com #EatingAnimalsCausesPandemics #PlantBasedFoodSystemOrSystemCollapse
Zoonotic Diseases: Exposing the Link Between Animal Use & Pandemics
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Zoonotic Diseases: Exposing the Link Between Animal Use & Pandemics

In this panel from the Animal Justice Academy (register for free: https://www.animaljusticeacademy.com/), we gather top scientists and lobbyists in the field of linking pandemics to animal use. 75% of emerging infectious diseases in humans are now zoonotic, which means they start in animals and are passed to humans. The COVID-19 pandemic likely originated from wildlife in China, but it could just as easily have come from a factory farm in North America. Our panel will arm you with the facts to help get the public and government to take heed of the very serious pandemic threat posed by industrial animal farming (for food and fur) and the wildlife trade. We’ll also talk about how this is an opportune time to make the case to the government to protect animals to prevent the next pandemic. Panelists: • Dr. Aysha Akhtar, MD, MPH, President & CEO, Center for Contemporary Sciences • Melissa Matlow, Canadian Campaign Director, World Animal Protection • Dr. Tushar Mehta, Co-founder of Plantbaseddata.org • Dr. Jan Hajek - Clinical Assistant Professor, Infectious Diseases, University of British Columbia Animal Justice Academy is a FREE six-week online bootcamp and community to empower people to make a better world for all animals via politics, media, the legal system, veganism, corporate outreach, and their own communities and social circles. Sign up: https://www.animaljusticeacademy.com/
WHO warns Covid-19 pandemic is 'not necessarily the big one'
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WHO warns Covid-19 pandemic is 'not necessarily the big one'

Experts from the World Health Organization have told the end of year media briefing that even though the coronavirus pandemic has been severe, it is 'not necessarily the big one', and that the virus is likely to become endemic and the world will have to learn to live with it. The head of the WHO emergencies programme, Dr Mike Ryan, warned that the next pandemic may be worse, while Prof David Heymann, the chair of the WHO's strategic and technical advisory group for infectious hazards, said the 'destiny' of the virus is to become endemic, even as vaccines begin to be rolled out across the world Subscribe to Guardian News on YouTube ► http://bit.ly/guardianwiressub WHO warns Covid-19 pandemic is 'not necessarily the big one' ► https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/29/who-warns-covid-19-pandemic-is-not-necessarily-the-big-one Support the Guardian ► https://support.theguardian.com/contribute Today in Focus podcast ► https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/todayinfocus The Guardian YouTube network: The Guardian ► http://www.youtube.com/theguardian Guardian Football ► http://is.gd/guardianfootball Guardian Sport ► http://bit.ly/GDNsport Guardian Culture ► http://is.gd/guardianculture
Zoonotic diseases and warnings about their increasing frequency
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Zoonotic diseases and warnings about their increasing frequency

#PureScience #ThePrintScience #VIrus Zoonotic diseases are those that are transmitted from animals to humans. ThePrint’s Sandhya Ramesh discusses some of the common ones, some other ongoing zoonotic outbreaks, and a stark UN warning about increasing risk of newer outbreaks. Correction: The bubonic plague is caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis, not a virus. Error is regretted. Support our journalism: theprint.in/contribute --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Connect with ThePrint » Subscribe to ThePrint : http://bit.ly/SubscribeToThePrint » Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theprintindia » Tweet us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/theprintindia » Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theprintindia » Find us on LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/company/theprint » Subscribe to ThePrint on Telegram: https://t.me/ThePrintIndia

ZOONOTIC VIRUSES, EXPLAINED

The Secret Weapon Against Pandemics That Nobody Wants to Talk About | Alex O'Connor | TEDxWarwick
16:41

The Secret Weapon Against Pandemics That Nobody Wants to Talk About | Alex O'Connor | TEDxWarwick

Alex O’Connor is a prominent podcaster, YouTuber and student at the University of Oxford. In his TEDx talk, Alex puts forward the case against factory farming, not only based on ethical concerns, but also by exploring how factory farms can become breeding grounds for Zoonotic viruses. Alex O'Connor is a prominent YouTuber and podcaster. He has amassed over 400,000 subscribers, and his videos on Philosophy and Ethics have been viewed over 37 million times across the globe. He is the creator and host of the Cosmic Skeptic podcast, which has welcomed guests such as Richard Dawkins and Peter Singer. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
Plant-Based Food System or System Collapse? | Pandemic-Proofing our Plates
05:29

Plant-Based Food System or System Collapse? | Pandemic-Proofing our Plates

There is a single species responsible for the current pandemic: Us. Humans. This isn’t our first pandemic...and if we don't stop eating animals, it definitely won’t be our last. COVID-19 has been merely the dress rehearsal for future global zoonotic disease outbreaks. Zoonotic diseases are diseases that originate in other animals and spread to humans. Well-known examples are SARS, Avian / Bird Flu, Swine Flu, Mad Cow Disease, Ebola, HIV, Measles, Smallpox, the "Spanish" Flu … and, of course, COVID-19. Every year, we slaughter over 70 billion land animals for food around the world, with more than 90% of them in factory farms. This number doesn’t include the TRILLIONS of sea animals we kill around the globe on an annual basis. Whether in a wet market or a barn, large numbers of highly stressed animals with weakened immune systems, living side-by-side and on top of one another, in cramped and filthy conditions, is the perfect breeding ground for viruses to flourish, mutate, and jump to humans. All farms, whether small and family-run or large industrial complexes, keep animals in intensively confined spaces like large-scale incubators where diseases can spread easily. These animals are NOT social distancing. But free-range or regenerative agriculture is not the answer. Raising animals on smaller farms results in mass deforestation to provide pasture for animals to graze and also to grow other crops to feed them, leading to massive encroachments into the natural world and causing biodiversity loss. Such environmentally destructive practices bring humans and domesticated animals in closer contact with wild animals and their pathogens. We must demand that our governments, the media, and the public stop ignoring the source of pandemics happening time and again around the world, which is our dangerous and broken animal-based food system. By transitioning to a plant-based food system, we can stop zoonotic disease outbreaks in their tracks. All the masks, social distancing, vaccinations, and hand sanitizer in the world will not avoid the next, and potentially worse, global outbreak. Let’s take pandemics off the menu and make plant-based eating…the “new normal”. For more information, please visit www.EatingAnimalsCausesPandemics.com #EatingAnimalsCausesPandemics #PlantBasedFoodSystemOrSystemCollapse
Zoonotic Diseases: Exposing the Link Between Animal Use & Pandemics
01:23:15

Zoonotic Diseases: Exposing the Link Between Animal Use & Pandemics

In this panel from the Animal Justice Academy (register for free: https://www.animaljusticeacademy.com/), we gather top scientists and lobbyists in the field of linking pandemics to animal use. 75% of emerging infectious diseases in humans are now zoonotic, which means they start in animals and are passed to humans. The COVID-19 pandemic likely originated from wildlife in China, but it could just as easily have come from a factory farm in North America. Our panel will arm you with the facts to help get the public and government to take heed of the very serious pandemic threat posed by industrial animal farming (for food and fur) and the wildlife trade. We’ll also talk about how this is an opportune time to make the case to the government to protect animals to prevent the next pandemic. Panelists: • Dr. Aysha Akhtar, MD, MPH, President & CEO, Center for Contemporary Sciences • Melissa Matlow, Canadian Campaign Director, World Animal Protection • Dr. Tushar Mehta, Co-founder of Plantbaseddata.org • Dr. Jan Hajek - Clinical Assistant Professor, Infectious Diseases, University of British Columbia Animal Justice Academy is a FREE six-week online bootcamp and community to empower people to make a better world for all animals via politics, media, the legal system, veganism, corporate outreach, and their own communities and social circles. Sign up: https://www.animaljusticeacademy.com/
How To Prevent The Next Pandemic
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How To Prevent The Next Pandemic

When will we say enough is enough and decide that eating animals just isn’t worth it? Hunting and animal farming served their purpose for millennia of human population growth but now, in the 21st century, such endeavors are no longer necessary. We must be brutally honest with ourselves. Killing animals is archaic and unethical, and it is killing us too. Our current system is broken: it is cruel, unsustainable, and extremely unsafe. For years, experts have been warning us that a pandemic like COVID-19 – or worse, like the 1918 flu that killed an estimated 50-100 million people – would come, and that when it did it would be a virus of our own hatching. We can’t keep doing this. We can’t keep breeding and killing animals by the trillions as if doing so won’t have consequences. We can’t keep cutting down rainforests and destroying wild habitats without exposing ourselves to the deadly pathogens they house, and we can’t continue to greedily exploit nature and expect our children not to have to pay the price. They will – we all will – unless we change our eating habits. For most of us, eating animals is an indulgence – not a necessity – and it is one that could hurt us all. The time has come to ask ourselves what we truly value most: the safety of our families and loved ones OR the taste of animal flesh? Experts warn that if we don’t act now, we may not have another chance to. The good news is that we CAN take pandemics OFF the menu and, to do so, we need look no further than our own plates. Learn HOW at MillionDollarVegan.com/Pandemics
A Letter For Our Future | Animal Agriculture Causes Pandemics
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A Letter For Our Future | Animal Agriculture Causes Pandemics

🦠 😷 A Letter For Our Future | Animal Agriculture Causes Pandemics 😷 🦠 For years, governments have ignored us and failed to tell the truth on the climate, ecological and health crisis’ COVID-19 has made the past year a very difficult one for all walks of life and it’s time the government put people over profit and tell the truth! ANIMAL FARMING = PANDEMICS Governments must tell the truth and publicly address the connection between animal farming, exploitation and the threats of zoonotic disease. We must transition away from farming of all animals and move towards a prospering plant-based society! WE NEED YOU! Interested in being part of our battle for a PLANT-BASED FOOD SYSTEM? 🌱 Visit our Linktree where you will find our volunteer form: https://linktr.ee/animal.rebellion Thank you to everyone that signed this letter: Animal Rebellion Animal Aid Animal Justice Project Animal Welfare Party Surge BOSH! : Henry Firth & Ian Theasby Emily-Jane Williams VIVA Dr Alice Brough Megan McCubbin: Zoologist Genesis Butler Youth Climate Save Matthew Shribman Plant-Based Health Professionals Dr Shireen Kassam Direct Action Everywhere: USA Veg Capital: Matthew Glover Kate Werner: PETA UK Champions for Earth: Dave Hampton Jewish Vegetarian Society Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade Dominic Dyer Humane Being Save Europe: David Huntley Animal Save Movement Extinction Rebellion Vegans Animal Think Tank Edited by @dillon.p_photography #PlantBasedFoodSystem #PreventFuturePandemics #AnimalRebellion

FACTORY FARMING AND ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE

Are vegetarians less prone to a severe COVID-19 illness? | COVID-19 Special
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Are vegetarians less prone to a severe COVID-19 illness? | COVID-19 Special

Could what we eat be the difference between life and death – between a light fever or a stay in intensive care? We know that obesity, high blood pressure or diabetes can lead to severe Covid-19 complications. Does this mean, our diet our destiny? Could eating fewer animals and more plants be the solution? A new study suggests it could come down to a survival of the vegetarians. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/user/deutschewelleenglish?sub_confirmation=1 For more news go to: http://www.dw.com/en/ Follow DW on social media: ►Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/deutschewellenews/ ►Twitter: https://twitter.com/dwnews ►Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dwnews Für Videos in deutscher Sprache besuchen Sie: https://www.youtube.com/dwdeutsch #COVID19 #Vegetarian #Health
How To Prevent The Next Pandemic
04:12

How To Prevent The Next Pandemic

When will we say enough is enough and decide that eating animals just isn’t worth it? Hunting and animal farming served their purpose for millennia of human population growth but now, in the 21st century, such endeavors are no longer necessary. We must be brutally honest with ourselves. Killing animals is archaic and unethical, and it is killing us too. Our current system is broken: it is cruel, unsustainable, and extremely unsafe. For years, experts have been warning us that a pandemic like COVID-19 – or worse, like the 1918 flu that killed an estimated 50-100 million people – would come, and that when it did it would be a virus of our own hatching. We can’t keep doing this. We can’t keep breeding and killing animals by the trillions as if doing so won’t have consequences. We can’t keep cutting down rainforests and destroying wild habitats without exposing ourselves to the deadly pathogens they house, and we can’t continue to greedily exploit nature and expect our children not to have to pay the price. They will – we all will – unless we change our eating habits. For most of us, eating animals is an indulgence – not a necessity – and it is one that could hurt us all. The time has come to ask ourselves what we truly value most: the safety of our families and loved ones OR the taste of animal flesh? Experts warn that if we don’t act now, we may not have another chance to. The good news is that we CAN take pandemics OFF the menu and, to do so, we need look no further than our own plates. Learn HOW at MillionDollarVegan.com/Pandemics
Moby - 'Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad? (Reprise Version)' (Official Video) #WhyDoesMyHeartFeelSoBad
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Moby - 'Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad? (Reprise Version)' (Official Video) #WhyDoesMyHeartFeelSoBad

'Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad? (Reprise Version)' by Moby feat. Apollo Jane & Dietrick Haddon is taken from the new album 'Reprise' out now on Deutsche Grammophon. Credits: Directed & animated by Steve Cutts Buy/Listen to 'Reprise' here: http://moby.la/repriseYo More info about 'Reprise': http://moby.la/reprise-homeYo Subscribe to Moby: http://moby.la/subscribeytYo​ For info on Moby music, merch, tour dates & more, please visit https://moby.com/ Follow Moby Instagram: http://moby.la/instagramYo​ Mailing List: http://moby.la/mailing-listYo Facebook: http://moby.la/facebookYo​ Twitter: http://moby.la/twitterYo​ Twitch: http://moby.la/twitchYo Spotify: http://moby.la/spotifyYo Apple Music: http://moby.la/apple-musicYo Amazon Music: http://moby.la/amazon-musicYo YouTube Music: http://moby.la/youtube-musicYo Bandcamp: http://moby.la/bandcampYo
Plant-Based Food System or System Collapse? | Pandemic-Proofing our Plates
05:29

Plant-Based Food System or System Collapse? | Pandemic-Proofing our Plates

There is a single species responsible for the current pandemic: Us. Humans. This isn’t our first pandemic...and if we don't stop eating animals, it definitely won’t be our last. COVID-19 has been merely the dress rehearsal for future global zoonotic disease outbreaks. Zoonotic diseases are diseases that originate in other animals and spread to humans. Well-known examples are SARS, Avian / Bird Flu, Swine Flu, Mad Cow Disease, Ebola, HIV, Measles, Smallpox, the "Spanish" Flu … and, of course, COVID-19. Every year, we slaughter over 70 billion land animals for food around the world, with more than 90% of them in factory farms. This number doesn’t include the TRILLIONS of sea animals we kill around the globe on an annual basis. Whether in a wet market or a barn, large numbers of highly stressed animals with weakened immune systems, living side-by-side and on top of one another, in cramped and filthy conditions, is the perfect breeding ground for viruses to flourish, mutate, and jump to humans. All farms, whether small and family-run or large industrial complexes, keep animals in intensively confined spaces like large-scale incubators where diseases can spread easily. These animals are NOT social distancing. But free-range or regenerative agriculture is not the answer. Raising animals on smaller farms results in mass deforestation to provide pasture for animals to graze and also to grow other crops to feed them, leading to massive encroachments into the natural world and causing biodiversity loss. Such environmentally destructive practices bring humans and domesticated animals in closer contact with wild animals and their pathogens. We must demand that our governments, the media, and the public stop ignoring the source of pandemics happening time and again around the world, which is our dangerous and broken animal-based food system. By transitioning to a plant-based food system, we can stop zoonotic disease outbreaks in their tracks. All the masks, social distancing, vaccinations, and hand sanitizer in the world will not avoid the next, and potentially worse, global outbreak. Let’s take pandemics off the menu and make plant-based eating…the “new normal”. For more information, please visit www.EatingAnimalsCausesPandemics.com #EatingAnimalsCausesPandemics #PlantBasedFoodSystemOrSystemCollapse

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