Why do public health officials tell us to socially distance (and rightly so), but fail to mention the animals crowded into factory farms–a major risk for the next pandemic?
Join public health expert Dr. Aysha Akhtar, Animal Legal Defense Fund Executive Director Stephen Wells, and Staff Attorney Kelsey Eberly for a round table discussion about the impacts of stress and confinement of animals on disease transmission — and conditions where they are most likely to jump to humans.
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