Poorva Joshipura: Survival at Stake

Species Unite

elizabeth novogratz

Society & Culture, Philosophy

5 • 911 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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“…but what's happening lately is that mink on fur farms have been starting to be infected with H5n1 bird flu. So, the World Health Organization is worried that this disease is now changing to better infect mammals. Of course, we are mammals. And of course, if it's on fur farms, there's human mammals on the fur farms who can be infected by the bird flu, just the same way that COVID kept pinging back and forth between animals and fur farms and the humans who work there. And so this is a real concern because it’s a 60% mortality rate, I mean, that can wipe out most of humanity.” – Poorva Joshipura

Poorva Joshipura has spent her entire career at PETA. She's currently PETA's Senior Vice President of International Affairs. Poorva’s second book, Survival at Stake, was just released. It’s about how we treat animals and how our current ways of doing things, from factory farming to animal testing to the use of animals in materials and everywhere else we exploit them greatly affects us all.

Our treatment of animals is linked to pandemics, epidemics, antibiotic resistance, climate change, deforestation, loss of biodiversity, and many other horrors that humans and the planet are currently facing. It’s all connected and unless we change how we treat animals, and remove them from all of the systems that they’re innocent victims of, things don’t look so good for our survival as a species.

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0:00.0	Species,
0:07.0	species.
0:10.0	Unite, unite. But what's happening lately is that Mink on far farms have been starting to be
0:19.7	infected which H5N1 bird flu.
0:23.8	So the World Health Organization is worried
0:27.0	that this disease is now changing
0:30.8	to better infect mammals. Of course we are mammals and of course if it's on
0:36.1	fur farms there's human mammals on the fur farms who can be infected by the bird
0:41.5	flu just the same way that COVID kept pinging back and forth between
0:46.4	animals and fur farms and the humans who work there. And so this is a real concern
1:12.5	because 60% mortality rate, I mean that canigrats. This is Species Unite. We have a favor to ask.
1:13.9	If you like today's episode and you have a spare minute,
1:17.8	could you please rate and review Species Unite
1:20.4	on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to Podcasts. It really helps people to find the show. This conversation is with Porva Josephura.
1:37.0	Porva is the Senior Vice President of International Affairs for Pita,
1:42.0	and she recently released her second book. It's
1:44.8	called Survival at Stake and it's about how we treat animals and how that treatment of
1:49.3	animals affects us. And unless we change it, our survival as a species is at stake. Hi, Porva. It's really good to meet you.
2:10.0	Great to meet you, Porva. It's really good to meet you.
2:13.0	Great to meet you too.
2:14.0	I read your book and that's what we're going to talk about today, but before we get into it,
2:19.0	let's talk a little bit about you.
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