**"The answer begins with the dismantling of our industrialized factory farming infrastructure. Not only are America’s factory farms vile for the animals and the workers that slaughter them, but they are essentially breeding grounds for future pandemics."**
— Dr. Michael Greger, *How to Survive a Pandemic*

**"Highly pathogenic bird flu viruses are primarily the products of factory farming."**
— Dr. Michael Greger

**"If you actually want to create global pandemics, then build factory farms."**
— Dr. Michael Greger, via Vox

🔗 Source: [How to Survive a Pandemic – Dr. Greger on Rich Roll Podcast](https://www.richroll.com/podcast/michael-greger-md-532/)
📚 More: [NutritionFacts.org](https://nutritionfacts.org)

#PandemicPrevention #FactoryFarming #BirdFlu #SwineFlu #ZoonoticDiseases #MichaelGreger #HowToSurviveAPandemic #PublicHealth #PlantBased #EndFactoryFarming

**"The answer begins with the dismantling of our industrialized factory farming infrastructure. Not only are America’s factory farms vile for the animals and the workers that slaughter them, but they are essentially breeding grounds for future pandemics."**
— Dr. Michael Greger, *How to Survive a Pandemic*

**"Highly pathogenic bird flu viruses are primarily the products of factory farming."**
— Dr. Michael Greger

**"If you actually want to create global pandemics, then build factory farms."**
— Dr. Michael Greger, via Vox

🔗 Source: [How to Survive a Pandemic – Dr. Greger on Rich Roll Podcast](https://www.richroll.com/podcast/michael-greger-md-532/)
📚 More: [NutritionFacts.org](https://nutritionfacts.org)

#PandemicPrevention #FactoryFarming #BirdFlu #SwineFlu #ZoonoticDiseases #MichaelGreger #HowToSurviveAPandemic #PublicHealth #PlantBased #EndFactoryFarming

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For those who still believe eating meat is healthy out there, here is a curious excerpt from the book, “How To Survive A Pandemic” by Dr M. Greger.

“In 2016, the Chinese government recommended its citizens cut their meat consumption in half to reduce the growing rates of chronic diseases.”

#meat #HowToSurviveAPandemic

“The editorial [of the journal of the American Public Health Assoc.] questioned the prudence of raising so many animals for food in the first place, given the pandemic threat they may pose. It is curious, therefore, that changing the way humans treat animals—most basically ceasing to eat them or at the very least radically limiting the quantity of them that they’re eating—is largely off the radar as a significant preventive measure. Such a change sufficiently adopted or imposed could still reduce the chances of the much feared influenza epidemic. It would be even more likely to prevent unknown future diseases that in the absence of this change may result from farming animals intensively and killing them for food. Yet humanity doesn’t even consider this option.”

An excerpt from the book, #HowToSurviveAPandemic by Dr M. Greger

#bookstodon #pandemic