Human Health & Zoonotic disease

The question isn’t IF its when…..

Feathers, from all countries, come predominately from factory farms, where thousands of animals are crammed into a small space and live among their waste for weeks on end. chicken, duck, turkey, and ostrich and emu farming, environments create the perfect conditions for the next zoonotic disease.

Factory farm animals also consume approximately 80% of the world’s antibiotics. Feeding animals antibiotics has the potential to create antibioitic resistant diseases [read more]. Health professionals and scientists believe a new disease from facilities such as these could have a greater impact than the current Coronavirus pandemic, as the disease could jump to wild species, and also be spread through meat products [read more].

Did you know that Influenza (the flu) started as an intestinal bug in ducks? The virus sits in their intestinal lining and as they secrete, it enters the water and is consumed by other ducks, spreading the virus in a more natural order as opposed to industrial animal farming where animals are confined together causing the virus to spread airborne, increasing the rapidness in contagion, allowing the virus to spread to humans and animals. When ducks were mixed with land-based avian species – chickens – the disease infected them, and then mutated to infect humans, the video below explains in more detail.

Other common disease outbreaks include salmonella, Escherichia coli, and Pasteurella multocidia, and Rimerella (Pasteurella) anatipestifer which causes tremors and incoordination [read more].