Pandemics
Plant-Based = Massive Mega-Trend in Grocery Stores During & Post Covid And, the man who declared this should know. He’s been immersed in the grocery business for almost half a century. Walter Robb is the former co-CEO of Whole Foods.
“Normal” Is A Ticking Time Bomb “When the pandemic is over” has become an all-too-common phrase these days. We hold out hope that, one day, we can gather in groups again. Eat at restaurants indoors. Live music, perhaps? Bottom line… most of us want to get back to normal.
Help Answer This Crucial Question: What Can Farmers Do, On Their Land, to Thrive Without Using Animals? Animal agriculture is the most destructive industry in our world today, a leading cause of deforestation, habitat destruction, climate change, human world hunger, and human diseases like cancer and heart disease.
April 9th, 2020 They say politics makes strange bedfellows. Well, in these very strange times, politics is making for extremely strange bedfellows. Senator Cory Booker, New Jersey Democrat and former presidential contender and Senator Lindsey Graham, a conservative Republican from South Carolina, have banded together – with more than 60 congressional lawmakers – to plead with the World Health Organization to close all wet markets around the world as the coronavirus continues to wreak havoc on human health and the global economy.
By now, we all know that this coronavirus plague began at a live animal market in China. In 2003, SARS also began at another live market in China. Obvious conclusion: eliminate live animals markets to reduce the chance of further outbreaks.
The CDC says about 75 percent of infectious diseases are of animal origin. Experts warn the next viral pandemic to erupt may be deadlier. What’s the panacea? The deadly coronavirus, that is now plaguing humankind, has been traced back to a live meat market.
“I woke up feeling like I’d smoked 60 cigarettes in the last hour” says Mikey Smith, Mirror’s political correspondent, who is currently at home in quarantine with the suspected and dreaded coronavirus. Coronavirus is a highly contagious, deadly respiratory virus that is now a global pandemic.
On Monday, March 16th, more than a dozen concerned New Yorkers protested outside New York City Hall demanding the city’s 85 live meat markets be closed down in the wake of the coronavirus, which began at a live meat market in China.
Lying by omission is one way to define “fake news.” By that definition, virtually all the mainstream coronavirus news coverage you are watching is fake. The networks essentially refuse to discuss the origins of the catastrophic coronavirus! Sure, you may hear news hosts make oblique and passing references to “live markets” as they urge you to hunker down in your homes and whip out the Lysol.