| Published March 2020 |
Coronavirus Should Make You Reconsider Eating Meat
| More than two years after the pandemic began, scientists determined that the novel coronavirus likely originated in a wet market in China, where humans regularly came in contact with wild animals. But in the early stages of the pandemic, only a select few publications openly discussed the links between the use of animals and the spread of zoonotic disease. Sentient Media was one of the first to address this gap in crucial information, offering extensive, in-depth reporting on how animal agriculture contributed to the spread of COVID-19. “Inconvenient truths are so common to our era that we may well be inoculated to them,” wrote Macken Murphy as COVID-19 began to surge. “Every time we buy animal products, we directly sponsor a system that will continue to produce pandemics and will ultimately render ineffective our existing antibiotics.” |
| Over the past two years, Sentient Media has continued to report on the pandemic, exposing the meat industry’s connection to the spread of the vicious disease. As COVID-19 cases on farms skyrocketed, shutting down facilities across the country, we covered mass culls on farms and some of the ethical questions facing consumers. We took you inside factory farms to show you what they looked like during the worst of the pandemic and exposed “baseless” claims of meat shortages that kept processing plants open and put thousands of workers’ lives in danger. |
Exposing the Big Game 