{"id":7603,"date":"2024-12-05T01:11:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T06:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=7603"},"modified":"2024-12-05T12:59:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T17:59:16","slug":"how-ag-gag-laws-hurt-animals-and-increase-pandemic-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/how-ag-gag-laws-hurt-animals-and-increase-pandemic-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"How Ag-Gag Laws Hurt Animals and Increase Pandemic Risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><i class=\"fa fa-exclamation-triangle\" aria-hidden=\"true\" style=\"color: #ffc107;\"><\/i>&nbsp;Content warning: This article contains depictions of animal suffering and inhumane treatment of animals.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A teen in British Columbia recently became critically ill after becoming infected with H5N1. H5N1 is a highly pathogenic strain of bird flu. <\/p>\n<p>Outbreaks of avian influenza, or bird flu, in livestock and flocks on industrial-scale chicken and dairy farms \u2014 so-called factory farms \u2014 in the United States are raising alarm bells for public health across the world.<\/p>\n<p>Mainstream commercial animal agriculture is conducted in an intensive way in often cramped and unhygienic environments. These conditions are ideal for new viruses to jump from animals to humans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><i class=\"fa fa-exclamation-triangle\" aria-hidden=\"true\" style=\"color: #ffc107;\"><\/i>&nbsp;Content warning: This article contains depictions of animal suffering and inhumane treatment of animals.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A teen in British Columbia recently became critically ill after becoming infected with H5N1. H5N1 is a highly pathogenic strain of bird flu. <\/p>\n<p>Outbreaks of avian influenza, or bird flu, in livestock and flocks on industrial-scale chicken and dairy farms \u2014 so-called factory farms \u2014 in the United States are raising alarm bells for public health across the world.<\/p>\n<p>Mainstream commercial animal agriculture is conducted in an intensive way in often cramped and unhygienic environments. These conditions are ideal for new viruses to jump from animals to humans.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/how-ag-gag-laws-hurt-animals-and-increase-pandemic-risks\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Ag-Gag Laws Hurt Animals and Increase Pandemic Risks<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1267,1265,1007,1006,1009,96,1264,1008,1266],"class_list":["post-7603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ag-gag-laws","tag-animal-rights","tag-avian-flu","tag-avian-influenza","tag-bird-flu","tag-canada","tag-factory-farms","tag-h5n1","tag-speciesism","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7603"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7611,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7603\/revisions\/7611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}