The global appetite for meat increases the risk of future pandemics - STAT

The global appetite for meat increases the risk of future pandemics - STAT

The growing global appetite for meat increases the risk of future ‘spillover’ pandemics. We can do something about it

By JERRY MARTIN

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The risk of pandemic threats has a great deal to do with humans' desire for animal protein, whether that meat is raised on a farm or comes from the wild.

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