Animals and disease MOC

There are 4 primary but separate ways that animal agriculture contributes to disease:

1. Zoonoses are where a disease jumps from animals to humans
2. Working in or living near CAFOs can cause sickness due to unsanitary conditions
   • CAFOs injure and sicken their workers
   • CAFOs make rural communities sick
3. Outbreaks of animal disease decimates animal populations.
   • This has no direct effect on human health but results in the deaths of millions of animals in months, and this can also have #food_security and #economics implications.
   • Diseases in farm animals cause economic shocks
   • For animal disease outbreaks in asia, see Statharas and Zeng, 2023
4. Antimicrobial resistance

Another minor one in developing countries is foodbourne disease

Animal farming makes the effects of crop diseases worse