Description: Two of the greatest crises that humanity faces—climate breakdown and new pandemics—are linked by one industry: industrial animal agriculture is responsible for large-scale deforestation, 14.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions, the degradation of natural environments, and animal cruelty.
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One industry links two of the greatest crises humanity faces: climate breakdown and new pandemics. That industry is industrial animal agriculture, responsible for runaway deforestation, 14.5% of greenhouse gas emissions, the degradation of natural environments, and animal cruelty. This damage also makes new viruses like COVID-19 more likely to emerge.
Yet major development banks, such as the World Bank and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, who should be helping humanity create a safer, more sustainable world, are lending billions to the worst forms of animal agriculture. And they are ignoring our message to stop.