Op-Ed: COVID-19 shows that what we're doing to animals is killing us, too (via latimesopinion)
is clear: Diseases like COVID-19 are an expected consequence of how we’re choosing to treat animals and their habitats.
By changing the nature and frequency of human-animal interactions, our actions — through the wildlife trade, deforestation, land conversion, industrial animal farming, the burning of fossil fuels, and more — propel the emergence and transmission of novel and known human infectious diseases.Scientists suspect that COVID-19, like SARS, is caused by a coronavirus that jumped from bats to humans at a live animal market in Wuhan, China.
China is not alone in creating ideal conditions for diseases to spill over species barriers. Every year, Americans pay to capture, box up, and importof live animals for agriculture, the pet and aquarium industries, and other uses. Inevitably, some of these traded animals carry hitchhiking pathogens or disturb their new environments in ways that amplify disease risk.
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