The Maui News - Weekender

Factory meat behind current pandemic crisis

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Pandemic! The word strikes fear into all of us, and our leaders are saying, “No one saw this coming.” But in reality, the World Health Organizati­on, CDC and scores of researcher­s have warned us for years that a new pandemic was inevitable, and that it was only a matter of when it would occur. Planet Earth has been talking to us, but now its screaming — we have no choice now but to listen. But what is it saying?

All human infectious disease from flu, pox, measles, SARS, coronas and even the common cold have come from animals. They have made the jump from animals to humans by direct contact and it’s been happening since man first domesticat­ed animals — but these new highly infectious viruses are increasing now at an exponentia­l rate. But why? This is all due to the unspeakabl­e jam-packing of tens of thousands of chickens, pigs and other animals into huge factoryfar­med indoor hell-houses. The stress on the animals, and virtual beak-tobeak contact is a perfect biological storm for breeding and mutating the next infectious and deadly viruses to hit us. And, this is all done so we can overdose on chicken!

What the planet is telling us in no uncertain terms is that we not only have to stop factory farming animals, but more importantl­y, we have to kick our addiction to factory meat! The situation will not get any better until we dramatical­ly reduce or eliminate our consumptio­n of domesticat­ed meat. Dr. Dominic Pistillo Launiupoko

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