Leah Garcés: The Next Pandemic Will Probably Come From A Factory Farm
"…This is not a surprise in many ways and, for decades, not just animal rights activists, but public health experts have been sounding the alarm bells about this kind of risk. And you know, my concern is in many ways people are referring to this as a once in a century event or the black swan or something, but it's like rolling dice and rolling snake eyes once doesn't have any effect on rolling. And in fact, we're rolling the dice even faster now.
The main reason is because we are in so much contact with animals through factory farms. So the way to think about pandemics is that we know that…
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