By now, we all have read/seen dozens of analyses, videos (like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se9yqWNIG8A)">https://www.youtube.com/watch... linking coronaviruses with:
1)Industrialization of farming (not & #39;domesticated& #39; but *abused* animals), incl. excessive (mis)use of #antibiotics
2) #Urbanization (breaking ecosystem balance) 1/
And I& #39;m now moving on to my territory: The shipping industry and @IMOHQ must push for an end to #Livestock shipping.
To the uninitiated to the horrors of this, just watch this:
https://twitter.com/WorldAnimalNews/status/1199436767675346945?s=20
https://twitter.com/WorldAnim... href="https://twtext.com//hashtag/BanLiveExport"> #BanLiveExport 3/
Accidents like the #QueenHind are not even that rare. Most small and medium size livestock carriers are converted box or roro ships - with huge stability problems, bearing flags of convenience and routinely failing #ParisMoU inspections...
https://twitter.com/panos_strather/status/1096901168629014530?s=20">https://twitter.com/panos_str... 4/
Main live exporters (via shipping) are Australia, Brazil, and among European countries, are Netherlands, Denmark, and Romania. Main importers are Middle East countries, Turkey, Pakistan. #EndLiveExport 5/ https://twitter.com/panos_strather/status/1166478016970727424?s=20">https://twitter.com/panos_str...
Giving up livestock shipping also helps (albeit by little) the shipping industry to reduce emmissions of all sorts and make environmental targets easier to meet:
https://twitter.com/panos_strather/status/1186914087336402944?s=20
https://twitter.com/panos_str... href="https://twtext.com//hashtag/Degrowth"> #Degrowth
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