#Act4 FarmAnimals In documents dating to 2006, government officials predicted that a pandemic would threaten critical businesses and warned them to prepare. Meatpacking companies largely ignored them, and now nearly every one of the predictions has come true. Meatpacking companies dismissed years of warnings but now say nobody could have prepared for Covid-19 7 September 2020
#Act4 Wildlife Millions of live animals enter the U.S. each year without disease screening — leaving us vulnerable to another outbreak, a former wildlife inspector says. To prevent the next pandemic, it’s the legal wildlife trade we should worry about 7 May 2020
#Act4 FarmAnimals “If you actually want to create global pandemics, then build factory farms.” The meat we eat is a pandemic risk, too 23 April 2020
#Act4 FarmAnimals In the US, industrial slaughterhouses where hundreds of thousands of animals are killed every day, have become clusters of the Covid-19 pandemic. Industrial slaughterhouses have become COVID-19 clusters in the US 23 April 2020
#Act4 FarmAnimals Half of the UK’s chickens are being produced by companies fully or partly controlled by US agribusinesses, according to an analysis of industry data, fuelling concerns of growing American influence over the British food sector. Half of UK chickens produced by US agriculture giants 8 April 2020 CIWF
#Act4 Pets A pet dog in Hong Kong has a “low-level” infection of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 in people, in what may be the first known human-to-animal transmission of the novel coronavirus that has sickened more than 90,000 people worldwide. Dog has ‘low-level’ coronavirus infection in first known human-to-animal transmission 9 March 2020
#Act4 LabAnimals In his State of the Union address this year, President Trump pledged $500 million over the next 10 years to fund research into cures for childhood cancers. How reliance on animal disease models is halting progress in the biomedical sciences 14 February 2019