Need to drastically cut back meat intake to avoid future pandemic: UK Doctor

London: The UK needs to drastically cut back its meat intake to avoid a future global health crisis, a group of doctors have warned. Plant Based Health Professionals (PBHP) said that the connection between major disease outbreaks and factory farming is being "swept under the carpet" amid the coronavirus pandemic, as they join a wave of experts urging people to go vegan, the Metro newspaper reported. The vast majority of new infectious diseases that have appeared in humans over the past century have been caused by tampering with farmed animals and their habitats, including Swine Flu (pigs), Avian Flu (birds) and Spanish Flu (poultry).