We must stop tearing down forests to make way for animal farming or to grow animal feed. We must protect ecosystems and prioritise the safety and freedom of wild animals, leaving them to live their lives away from human contact. If we don’t take urgent and far-reaching action now, eating animals will be the death of us.
“China and other governments around the world must act quickly and decisively to end the wild animal trade. Unless that happens, we predict with confidence that covid-19 will not be the last viral pandemic. There will be others, as long as wild animals are widely exploited for food and for other purposes, whether in China or elsewhere.”
– Jared Diamond, author of “Guns, Germs, and Steel,” and virologist Nathan Wolfe
Let's be clear: Eating bats is a monstrous and disgusting practice on par with other heinous traditions such as eating the body parts of chickens, cows, pigs, and fishes.
— Jay Shooster (@JayShooster) March 18, 2020
The Chinese government has permanently banned the wildlife markets suspected to be at the center of the COVID-19 pandemic. Will factory farms be next?
“We cut the trees; we kill the animals or cage them and send them to markets. We disrupt ecosystems, and we shake viruses loose from their natural hosts. When that happens, they need a new host. Often, we are it.”
my favourite consequence of the covid-19 societal lockdown is aquarium penguins roaming around freely and when this is all over I for one welcome them as our new overlords pic.twitter.com/jRAQsF9nqm
— sloane (sipihkopiyesis) (@cottoncandaddy) March 17, 2020
The planet’s tallest animal is in far greater danger than people might think.
Bernie Sanders in 1995 calling out a homophobe in front of congress. pic.twitter.com/aAjIlxcUQ7
— BOYSDOCRY • Trey Vincent (@thetreyvincent) March 4, 2020
the american presidency being contested by two openly corrupt, senile perverts reflects the decadent state of global capitalism with such poetic accuracy that it's almost unbearable
— Eleanor Robertson (@marrowing) March 11, 2020
Van Jones just dropped a gem: “Biden views Trump as a disruption of the status quo. Bernie views Trump as a result of the status quo.” Most important distinction.
— Ross M. Tedder? (@TedderRM) March 11, 2020
no time to explain…… hop on.. pic.twitter.com/beARZUoYcz
— brother magnon (@riley_sessions) February 29, 2020
Funny how twitter celebrates this as an achievement, but if she did this to her dog you’d try to get her put in jail. https://t.co/kRIJwx12l5
— Macken (@MackenMurphy) March 4, 2020
'What IS the stopping distance of a pregnant ferret travelling at 4mph?', I hear you cry…
Please observe. pic.twitter.com/aujIndzafv— Dick King-Smith HQ (@DickKingSmith) March 4, 2020