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eating meat or dairy is antithetical to being #COVID-cautious.
> Experts from both the UN and the European Food Safety Authority have previously identified industrial animal farming as the cause of most new infectious diseases in humans in the past decade, and have likewise warned it risks starting new pandemics.
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/meat-coronavirus-pandemic-science-animals-b1794996.html
COVID is a zoonotic disease caused by eating animals. if we want to support #disabled and #immunocompromised folks, going #vegan is one of the single best things we can do to avoid a future #pandemic.
or we could stuff our faces with dead, tortured birds while the avian flu continues to jump from factory farms to wild bird populations and humans. and veganism is #ableist? sure.
the choice is ours.
@ivy i’m not vegan, but I can definitely see that factory farming can be a serious source of disease.
@TransitBiker it’s horrifying, really. covid and avian flu and so many pandemics beforehand, all caused by eating animals. things don’t have to be this way!
what’s stopping you from making the switch?
@ivy well for one I’m poor and for two my body does not digest vegetable stuff particularly well. On top of that food is not a trivial thing for me - being on the autism spectrum comes with a lot of cool things, but also a lot of frustrating things like sensory issues… not just with touch, but also smell and taste. Even if I could digest more vegetable stuff, finding the right things that I can eat & can’t afford and pay with my food benefit is already too stressful as it is.