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https://archive.is/oYVuY for the paywall


Unfortunately that's not enough to solve the disease problem. The biggest problem is that the production and consumption levels are high for meat, dairy, etc. There's a good paper which talks about animal agriculture having a "disease trap" of sorts. (The infectious disease trap of animal agriculture)

The gist is that if you operate with intensified animal agriculture, there's the obvious disease risk with tons of creatures close together. However, if you try to do less intensive production, you increase land usage significantly which increases deforestation and thus zoonetic disease risk by exposing more wild animals to human populations

The main way out is to move away from the industry and towards the direction of plant-based diets which take up less land and don't have the crowding issues

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