If you don’t want to ditch meat for health reasons, do it to avoid pandemics GlobeDebate
Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World.on what livestock can be fed.
Canada’s feed restrictions are important for safety, of course, but there are likely more fundamental changes needed to reduce the risk not only of animal disease outbreaks such as African swine fever, but also diseases that could jump from farm animals to humans, sparking a pandemic. One need look no further than the avian influenza virus that caused the 1918 Spanish flu outbreak, taking 50 million human lives, to know that the threat posed by a pandemic is all too real.
Taking their advice of raising fewer animals could reduce pandemic risk, but that’d hardly be the only benefit. Enjoying a more plant-based diet also happens to be the advice of Canada’s new dietary guidelines, primarily to improve public health.
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