We should not place humanity at severe risk by continuing industrial chicken operations that intensively confine birds in their own waste. We should not play chicken with industrial chicken.
Industrial Chicken 'farm'...
Industrial animal food production, especially chicken, places humanity at
severe risk of a deadly pandemic. H5N1 influenza, for example, almost
certainly evolved in industrial poultry operations in China in the 1990s,
and now it is circulating in wild bird populations around the world. H5N1 is
60 percent lethal to humans. It is more than ten times as lethal as the 1918
influenza pandemic that killed 700,000 people in the US, and 50 million
worldwide. The mortality rate of COVID-19, by comparison, is about one
percent.
Many experts warn that H5N1 is only a few mutations away from pandemic form
(i.e., easily transmissible between humans). If this occurs, more than one
billion people could die. It would shut down society for years, if not
longer, and be the worst disaster to ever hit humanity.
The good news is H5N1 does not have to mutate into pandemic form. It is
within our control to prevent this catastrophe, so long as we eliminate the
risks. That means eliminating or substantially modifying industrial animal
agriculture operations. Because it is in those facilities where H5N1 is most
likely to evolve into pandemic form.
This situation perfectly illustrates the harmful nature of current economic
and political systems. These systems unintentionally compel businesses to
degrade the environment and society. They require companies to prioritize
shareholders’ returns over the well-being and survival of humanity. In the
Global System Change books, I provide a whole system approach for evolving
human systems and society into sustainable forms, with a strong emphasis on
the corporate and financial sectors.
The fourth volume of the series, Sustainable Food Production and Diet,
extensively discusses the many problems caused by industrial animal and crop
production. The book describes how switching to a whole food, plant-based
diet is usually the single most powerful action that individuals can take to
improve their health, extend their lives, lose weight, protect the
environment, relieve global hunger, reduce animal cruelty, and prevent
severe pandemics.
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