Marc Bekoff:
"Also, consider the situation now, during the COVID-19 pandemic, of what's happening to numerous humans working in meat-packing slaughterhouses in which animals butchered after living horrific lives on the way to their deaths. There have been a number of COVID-19 cases because of the horrific unsanitary working conditions in these hellholes.3 And it's possible intensively farmed and severely abused pigs may play a role in spreading COVID-19."
Source Psychology Today:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/animal-emotions/202006/in-these-horrific-times-why-do-you-work-animals
Scientists see a possible epidemiological link between pigs and Covid-19
Hypothesising on the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 through bats: Its relation to intensive pig-factory farming and the agro-industrial complex
"The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 and the resulting disease, COVID-19, is possibly related to bats, which have been shown to be a reservoir for many kinds of viruses, including coronaviridae, due to their physiological peculiarities. However, it remains controversial how, if at all, the virus evolved from bats to become infectious to humans, turning the resulting disease into a pandemic. The current discussion is based on some facts around the agro-industrial complex, such as intensive pigfactory farming in the city of Wuhan and its surroundings. A putative triangular relationship between bats, pigs and humans is described as a striking fictional story first, serving to illustrate the hypothesis. Then the history of current globalised animal farming from its beginnings during the 'Green Revolution' and its detrimental impacts are summarised. With COVID-19 research in its infancy, this is followed by mappings of pigfactory farming in the state of Santa Catarina, in the south region of Brazil and outbreaks of COVID-19 in humans."
Immo Fiebrig • Larissa Bombardi • Pablo Nepomuceno
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Immo_Fiebrig/publication/341525356_Hypothesising_on_the_emergence_of_SARS-CoV-2_through_bats_Its_relation_to_intensive_pig-factory_farming_and_the_agro-industrial_complex/links/5ec5778092851c11a87ad7b9/Hypothesising-on-the-emergence-of-SARS-CoV-2-through-bats-Its-relation-to-intensive-pig-factory-farming-and-the-agro-industrial-complex.pdf
