The Ecological Hoofprint: The Global Burden of Industrial Agriculture

Akram-Lodhi, Haroon

doi:10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i2.59

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“…Infectious disease transfer and associated threats to public health can then be mitigated through changes in human relationships with animals. Specifically, human dependence on animal meat and other foodstuffs is facilitated by devaluing animals' lives and relegating humans as superior to, and in constant control of, animals [52][53][54][55]. This is clearly illustrated through poultry production in the United States, which elevates practices of farming that are detrimental to animal wellbeing [56][57][58][59][60][61].…”

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Zoonoses Transfer, Factory Farms and Unsustainable Human–Animal Relations

Marchese

Hovorka

2022

Sustainability

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Infectious diseases are rooted in unsustainable and unjust human–animal relationships. Zoonoses are facilitated by human proximity to animals, epidemiological risk embedded within factory farms, and exploitation of animals and humans in these intensive livestock production systems. The five major categories of epidemiological risk that factory farms propel include: intensification of production for which homogenous populations are congregated, creation of multi-species farms for which different animals are held within the same farm, long and intensive animal transport increases the likelihood of interaction with other wildlife, ecological characteristics of the pathogen lead to altered pathogen dynamics and antibiotic resistance within a human population through the overuse of antibiotics. Layer and broiler operations in the North American context illustrate these linkages. One Health is offered as a concluding conceptual and aspirational frame for pursuing a more sustainable and just world. This article offers two main messages. First, our relationships with animals directly impact the health of human populations through the transmission and creation of Emerging Infectious Diseases (EIDs). Second, adopting One Health offers a means forward for more just and sustainable human–animal relations and reduction of zoonoses transmission.

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