Zoonotic diseases (animal related diseases) cost $300Bn in health and $200bn economic losses annually.
Deforestation is bring animals closer to humans
NExperts warn of more animal borne & infectious diseases, and more with global warming
Recent outbreak has caused multi-year hardship on lives and economy
During outbreak, there is less food, causes social insecurity, cause more interaction with animals to make food, transport issues, and more diseases, it’s a cycle, then more chaos – it’s unthinkable!
Vegetarian diet will reduce global warming, not require animal wet markets, factory farms where such new illness can emerge and burden the country health and economy!

Animal, Poultry disease outbreaks take millions

An estimated 60% of known infectious diseases and up to 75% of new or emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic (due to animal interaction)
Ebola virus, salmonellosis have caused recurrent outbreaks
Novel coronavirus caused global pandemic
In 2015 & 2022, CDC reported 50 million birds died due to avian flu; Typhoid believed from domesticating chickens
1918-20 Spanish Flu took millions of human lives impacted 1/3rd of world!
1977 H1N1 flu took 700K lives globally, 2009 swine flu impacted 10-20% of world’s population
A disease outbreak amongst animals and birds, large many are culled