This month the World Health Assembly elects the next Director-General of the World Health Organization(WHO) and over 200 experts in health, medicine, biology, policy and climate research have signed a letter urging the WHO to acknowledge that factory farming of animals is a major impediment to the health of not just the animals and our planet, but global human health. The letter (which you can read in full here) includes a series of policy recommendations:
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- Ban the use of growth-promoting antibiotics in animal farming and provide incentives to meat producers to dispose of antibiotics and animal waste in ways that prevent environmental contamination.
- Stop subsidizing factory farming.
- Adopt nutrition standards and implement education campaigns that warn of the health risks of meat consumption.
- Finance research into plant-based alternatives to meat.
See: 200 Health and science experts have powerful message about factory farming.
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- The most powerful thing individuals can do to be part of the solution? Stop buying the products that come from animal factory farming. In general that means avoiding fast, big box, mass produced food. It’s pretty simple.
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