EDIT, with a relevant source for context:

Since 1940, an estimated 50% of zoonotic disease emergence has been associated with agriculture (1–3). This estimate, however, is necessarily conservative because only direct agricultural drivers are considered in the epidemiological literature, i.e., within the farm gat

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The intensification of animal agriculture through confinement and industrialization has directly led to the emergence of viruses including Nipah and H5N1 influenza (“swine flu”) (18) and antibiotic-resistant infectious bacteria including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli (19, 20).

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.add6681

  • @MacedWindow
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    7 months ago

    Just wait Mad Broccoli Disease is coming

    • @[email protected]OP
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      7 months ago

      Plants don’t have the same receptors as animals. Disease jumping from plants to animals is much more difficult. Even the diseases that you hear about coming from plants are usually from spraying or containmention from animal manuare produced by animal agriculture

      We aren’t dumping 73% of the worlds antibiotics on plants like we are with animal agriculture

      • Chloé 🥕
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        97 months ago

        you’ll have a different tone of voice when the world gets hit with the Cauliflower Flu /s