Proposed climate action in the livestock sector could increase pandemic risks and other health threats
Animal agriculture negatively impacts the climate, public health and animal welfare, a group of experts argue in an article published today in Frontiers in Animal Science. Improving one of these impacts risks making the other two worse, so authors of the recent study are urging policymakers to weigh the trade-offs between all of these major impacts. One Health approach towards food systems transformation reveals risks and benefits of different interventions. Credit: Frontiers in Animal Science. The figure