Ep 14: In the Midst of a Pandemic, How is COVID-19 Impacting Animal Agriculture?

The Disclosure Podcast

Ed Winters

Ethics, Politics, Whole Foods, Society & Culture, Education, Animals, Morality, Veganism, Philosophy, Vegan, Plant Based Diet

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🗓️ 4 April 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Breaking down the latest news surrounding COVID-19 in relation to our exploitation of animals. Last weekend The Guardian ran a headline article on their homepage 'Is factory farming to blame for coronavirus?' - which brought up the censorship of my recent Instagram post on 'COVID-19'. Additionally, I discuss how the current crisis is impacting animals, slaughterhouse workers and dairy farmers. Most worryingly, I discuss whether it is possible that another pandemic hits us whilst we're in the ...

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0:00.0	And the Hello everyone and welcome back to the next episode of the disclosure
0:21.0	podcast I hope that you're well and I hope that you're well and I hope that you're
0:23.7	safe and I hope that you're looking after yourselves and practicing maybe some of
0:28.0	the self-care things that we spoke about in the last episode, making sure that
0:31.3	you're taking time to enjoy yourself, you know doing things that you enjoy,
0:35.0	maybe you're finding new hobbies and also maybe learning about different ways to be an advocate for veganism,
0:41.0	maybe starting that Instagram account,
0:42.8	whether that's a positive one or a vegan one,
0:45.5	which is also positive as well, but one's solely focused
0:48.0	on vegan activism or one solely focused on kind of
0:50.6	things you enjoy outside of veganism.
0:53.0	I hope you know you've been able to enjoy yourself and you've not been able to,
0:57.0	or you've been able to distract yourself from the outside world which at times right now especially feels like a very negative place
1:04.6	doesn't it this week's episode is kind of going to be going through some news
1:08.0	that has come out in the past week or so things I think that might be interesting for us
1:11.8	to discuss related to what's going on with the
1:14.0	pandemic. Before we do that, just a quick thank you to all my patrons. Thank you to all of you who support
1:19.0	my work from my website. I appreciate it very much. If you would like more disclosure
1:23.8	podcast episodes and I do a monthly Q&A through my patron, for my patron
1:29.7	supporters where I answer any questions they have for me. So if that sounds like something you'd be interested in,
1:34.0	then you can get access to that through my patron.
1:36.0	And also just another thing that I like to say at the beginning
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