AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH: Moby slammed for claiming Veganism would stop future pandemics
Moby: 'Every year human beings kill over 150 billion animals... leading to pandemics, deforestation, climate change, water pollution, cancer, diabetes, and heart disease.'
NZ HERALD: Moby, real name Richard Melville Hall, has caused quite a stir on Twitter by claiming that if all humans switched to a vegan diet there would be no future pandemics like Covid-19… In a post to Instagram and Twitter, Moby claims that “in a vegan world there would be no pandemics”… going on to add, “100% of pandemics are zoonotic in origin”… Alongside the controversial statement, Moby posted a photo of himself, pointing his right hand toward the camera, clearly showing a “v” – one must assume it stands for vegan – in a circle, tattooed on his index finger…
The bold statement was met with instant Twitter backlash. Even fellow vegans were critical of the overly simplistic and scientifically erroneous statement made by the musician. “It would be awfully nice if I could just eat my vegan food in peace and not have to apologise for stupid shit that other vegans say all the time,” one critic tweeted. “You’re the fictional insufferably smug vegan stereotype that everyone hates except you’re here and you’re real,” harshly tweeted another…
Richard Reithinger, vice-president of Global Health, RTI International gave his thoughts on Moby’s controversial statement: “Consumption of meat and animal products are only one of the many ways that pathogens can spillover from animals to humans. Other channels include animal husbandry or contamination of foods through animal fluids/faeces. Ultimately, the reason why increased spillover events are happening are because of our increased contact and encroachment with wildlife—which is more a symptom of resource scarcity and population growth”…
This is not the first time Moby has made similar claims about the power of veganism to change the world. Just weeks ago he posted to Instagram that “every year human beings kill over 150 billion animal… leading to pandemics, deforestation, climate change, water pollution, cancer, diabetes, and heart disease”. SOURCE…
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