Pandemics like Covid 19 are caused by viruses that are transmitted from the animal kingdom to humans. In many cases it is viruses that can develop in factory farming. Under normal conditions they would not arise. So you have to make it very clear that the way we have kept and killed the animals up to now cannot go any further. About the connections there are here from ProVeg a well-founded information pdf. We must now exert pressure so that sustainable change can begin today.
There are solutions here and now, but we don't use them.
There are solutions and alternatives to factory farming and meat and milk consumption, we just don't use them. This means that lobbies block the further development and use of alternatives because they want to continue to drive up their returns.
It's about the whole.
And they in doing so, contrary to all common sense, disregard research, science and ethics. Just as the autocratic rulers of some countries inflict massive damage on their people and plunge the world into deep crises, so do the agricultural lobbies in our country. In the area of the environment, health and security of supply for people.
You are putting everything on the line to be able to reap a few more years of big profits. We must therefore exert pressure to ensure that sustainable change begins here and now.
But we now know too much that we can just watch. Because the threat is absolutely present.
The demand is that the Corona reconstruction fund be invested in sustainable reconstruction as promised by politicians. In purely theoretical terms, we have the possibility of doing without the meat industry with factory farming. There are even alternatives for people who don't want to give up their meat.
Agriculture clings to its unscrupulous business by all means. At the expense of people, animals and the whole world.
But these meat alternatives are poorly or not at all listed in the supermarkets. There is no help to increase research in this sector and there is a penetrating flood of disinformation through the meat lobby. You can find real smear campaigns against people who no longer want to eat meat on the regional radio stations and newspapers. And so the opinion of the population is constantly being manipulated in such a way that tofu and co are generally still poorly accepted. The change that is long overdue is not given a real chance. That is why we now have to exert massive pressure so that sustainable change begins today.
And meanwhile the animals suffer and the world is ruined with viruses from the animal kingdom like Covid 19. If we continue like this, it will certainly not be the last of its kind. Nature is simply at the limit. Man has grossly exaggerated the exploitation.
Many politicians make common cause with the lobbies.
As long as politics is subservient to the lobbies as it has been up to now and does not make decisions with foresight, ethical awareness and simply common sense, we have to set a clear signal through very conscious consumption. Because money is the only thing that the system (so far) accepts to change the direction of travel. For example, as long as we have Covid 19 under control through a vaccination and people continue to consume their cheap meat, there would be for them Meat lobby no reason to change anything in your unscrupulous actions.
As long as it is cheaper to fix the consequences of a breakdown than to tackle the causes, NOTHING will happen.
And politics will just offset (they understand something about mathematics) that the cost of immunizing mankind is lower than the loss of tax revenue that the abolition of factory farming would mean, so there is no need to change anything. But with every piece of dead animal that is left in the supermarket, change begins. It is very important that we show that we do not want to continue like this. We have to apply pressure.
Here a wonderful one Contribution from the Albert Schweitzer Foundation on exactly this topic. You can't really add anything to that and, especially after this article, there is absolutely no excuse for politics to tolerate and even patronize the goings-on in the meat lobby.
Each and every one of them can now tip the scales.
And until the wheels of politics move it's up to uswhat happens to the animals and whether we want to initiate the next pandemic. If we ourselves start to spend our money on vegan alternatives to meat and dairy products with our own purchasing decisions and only buy products that are certified for animal welfare in the case of meat and eggs (preferably not even those), then we set a clear example. That will help politicians to make the right decisions in a timely manner, and with it we will turn around in time sustainable world can create.
