{"id":20,"date":"2025-04-24T19:19:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T19:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/veganinternational.org\/english\/?page_id=20"},"modified":"2025-06-17T18:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T18:24:11","slug":"zoonotic-disease","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/veganinternational.org\/english\/zoonotic-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoonotic Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Zoonotic diseases, Covid-19, HIV, Ebola, SARS, MERS and others, have been linked to \u2018spill over\u2019 from exploited animals to humans, and then transmitted among humans.\u00a0 Emerging diseases, and pandemics, are almost invariably zoonotic.\u00a0 An estimated 60% of all viruses that infect humans come from animals, and 75% of all new infectious diseases in the past decade are zoonotic.\u00a0 This is drastically increasing as a result of habitat destruction and disease transmission from unjustly incarcerated, exploited animals.<\/p>

Zoonotic disease, the cause of epidemics and pandemics, is transmitted to humans from unjustly incarcerated and exploited animals. \u00a0The deadliest pandemics in history are zoonotic.\u00a0 Speciesism, is the underlying cause of zoonotic disease.\u00a0 It is the abuse and exploitation of other species for the benefit of the human species and includes habitat destruction, species extinction, eating, incarcerating, and exploiting animals.<\/p>

Zoonotic diseases caused an estimated 3 million human deaths per year before even before the Covid-19 pandemic.\u00a0 This includes Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Ebola virus, SARS, MERS, Swine Flu, and Avian Flu, Black Death, Spanish Flu, and many, many others.<\/p>

COVID-19 originated from an animal unjustly incarcerated and awaiting extrajudicial execution in a live animal market.\u00a0 Live Markets, or \u2018wet markets\u2019, offer the sale and on-site slaughter of a multitude of innocent animals.\u00a0 This often includes endangered or threatened wild animals, and other animals who never come into contact with one another in the wild.\u00a0<\/p>

These markets exist all over the world.\u00a0 Covid-19 is believed to have started in one in Wuhan, China.\u00a0 Scientific evidence indicates that the virus originated from a bat coronavirus, then transferred to an intermediate host, either a domestic or wild animal, and finally to a captive, exploited animal individual used as food by humans.\u00a0 The virus ultimately evolved into SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus responsible for COVID-19, and spread to humans.\u00a0<\/p>

HIV\/AIDS, also from zoonotic origins has infected more than 33 million people worldwide.\u00a0 More than 25 million people have died.\u00a0 HIV\/AIDS originated when an established SIV switched from primates to humans through exposure to blood or other secretions of infected primates.\u00a0 This occurred through the hunting and butchering of innocent wild animals. Bites and other injuries caused by primates kept as pet animals can cause a viral transmission according to \u2018Future Medicine\u2019.<\/p>

Ebola virus disease (EVD), also from zoonotic origins, is a deadly disease with outbreaks that occur primarily on the African continent.<\/p>

Swine Flu (H1N1) results from agricultural facilities, factory farms, with horrific conditions.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Swine Flu H1N1 has a mortality rate of 60 percent, and could easily mutate and become more lethal.\u00a0 H1N1 originated in exploited innocent pigs in in the United States causing more than 200,000 infections and 18,000 human deaths, including 250 children.\u00a0 Innocent, exploited pigs suffered much higher casualties!<\/p>

According to the World Health Organization, outbreaks of Bird Flu (H5N1) results in the deaths of hundreds of humans, and millions of chickens and other birds.\u00a0 H5N1 has an estimated human mortality rate of 60 percent, and could easily mutate and become more lethal.\u00a0 The innocent, exploited, victimized birds suffered much higher casualties!\u00a0<\/p>

The United Nations Summit on Biodiversity states that the emergence of deadly zoonotic diseases, HIV\/AIDS, Ebola, SARS, MERS, Spanish, Black, and Avian Flu, Covid-19, and others, are the direct result of human imbalance with nature, specifically the supremacist exploitation of other species by humans.\u00a0<\/p>

Species extinction is happening at approximately 1,000 times the natural rate, and is a major factor in zoonotic disease.\u00a0 Approximately eighty percent of earth\u2019s land area has already been heavily transformed by human activity, primarily due to expansion animal agriculture.\u00a0 As animal agriculture grows, it needs more resources of land and water, destroying the habitats of existing species and causing extinction of irreplaceable and unique individuals.\u00a0<\/p>

Habitat loss is positively correlated with increased zoonotic pandemics. High biodiversity reduces the risk of zoonotic disease by the \u2018Dilution Effect\u2019 protecting human health by reducing the risk of zoonotic disease.\u00a0 Species extinction from habitat destruction makes disease transmission between species more likely and more deadly.<\/p>

United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) maintains that farmed animals are the weakest link in the global food systems.\u00a0 Factory farms are epicenters of disease for humans as well as for the billions of unfortunate animal individuals involuntarily incarcerated there.\u00a0 An estimated 99% of the ten billion unique individual land animals murdered for food every year are imprisoned in factory farms and murdered with impunity.\u00a0 Conditions make them susceptible to pathogens, which then get passed on to their human abusers (bridge population), and the human population in general through zoonotic pandemics.<\/p>

The current human \/ animal relationship is unjust and unsustainable. This troubled relationship with animals keeps humanity at risk of zoonotic outbreaks, directly resulting from exploitation of animals and the environment shared with them.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Zoonotic Disease Zoonotic diseases, Covid-19, HIV, Ebola, SARS, MERS and others, have been linked to \u2018spill over\u2019 from exploited animals to humans, and then transmitted among humans.\u00a0 Emerging diseases, and pandemics, are almost invariably zoonotic.\u00a0 An estimated 60% of all viruses that infect humans come from animals, and 75% of all new infectious diseases in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/veganinternational.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/veganinternational.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/veganinternational.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veganinternational.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veganinternational.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"https:\/\/veganinternational.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":920,"href":"https:\/\/veganinternational.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions\/920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/veganinternational.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}