新科学论文呼吁关闭所有的工厂化农场，以杜绝像COVID-19（2019冠状病毒病）这样的疾病大流行

原文：https://vegnews.com/2020/6/new-scientific-paper-pushes-to-shut-down-all-factory-farms-to-stop-the-spread-of-diseases-like-covid-19

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NEW SCIENTIFIC PAPER PUSHES TO SHUT DOWN ALL FACTORY FARMS TO STOP THE SPREAD OF DISEASES LIKE COVID-19

新科学论文呼吁关闭所有的工厂化农场，以杜绝像COVID-19（2019冠状病毒病）这样的疾病大流行

“Intensive confinement of animals in factory farm operations should be discontinued worldwide for the sake of animals, humans, and the environment,” the paper says.

该篇科学论文宣称：“为了动物、人类和环境的利益着想，应在全世界制止工厂化农场密集圈养动物的行为。”

by NICOLE AXWORTHY

作者：NICOLE AXWORTHY

JUNE 11, 2020

2020年6月11日

A new peer-reviewed scientific paper is calling for an end to factory farming and live animal markets worldwide in an effort to prevent the creation and spread of zoonotic diseases such as COVID-19. What the COVID-19 Pandemic is Telling Humanity was written by prominent academic physicians David O. Wiebers, MD, Emeritus Professor at the Mayo Clinic, and Valery Feigin, MD, Editor-in-Chief of medical journal Neuroepidemiology and a professor in New Zealand.

这篇经同行评审的新科学论文呼吁取缔全世界的工厂化养殖业（factory farming）和活体动物市场（live animal markets），以防止产生和传播各种人畜共通传染病（zoonotic diseases），譬如COVID-19（2019冠状病毒病）。这篇科学论文题为“What the COVID-19 Pandemic is Telling Humanity”（“COVID-19大流行病告诉人类什么”），其作者是两位著名的学术医生（academic physicians）：医学博士（MD）、美国梅奥诊所（Mayo Clinic）的荣休教授（Emeritus Professor）David O. Wiebers和新西兰教授、医学博士（MD）、医学期刊《神经流行病学》（Neuroepidemiology）的总编辑Valery Feigin。

“Although it is tempting for us to lay the blame for pandemics such as COVID-19 on bats, pangolins, or other wild species, it is human behavior that is responsible for the vast majority of zoonotic diseases that jump the species barrier from animals to humans,” the paper states. “The alarming increase in the frequency of these lethal zoonotic diseases relates in large part to our human-dominated ecosystem with increasingly unnatural human-animal close contact, grossly aberrant crowding of animals for human purposes, destruction of animal habitats, and vast numbers of highly mobile humans to swiftly carry these diseases throughout the world.”

“尽管我们倾向于将COVID-19等疾病大流行归罪于蝙蝠、穿山甲或其它野生物种，但实际上是人类的行为导致绝大部分的人畜共通传染病跨越了从动物到人类的物种屏障（species barrier），”该论文披露。“这些致命的人畜共通传染病的发生率恐怖上升，在很大程度上与我们人类主宰的生态系统有关：人类违反自然规律与动物越来越多的密切接触；为满足人类的贪欲极其变态地聚集大量动物（密集圈养动物）；肆意破坏动物的栖息地；数量巨大的高度流动人口迅速将这些疾病扩散到世界各地。”

The paper points out that the hunting and selling of wild animals and the massive overcrowding of animals in factory farms constitute major public health risks and that continuing these practices will only assure further crises in the future.

该科学论文指出，人们捕猎和贩卖野生动物以及工厂化农场（factory farms）养殖过度拥挤的大量动物，构成了重大的公共卫生风险；如果不终止这些行为和做法的话，将来肯定会招致更多的危机。

“Intensive confinement of animals in factory farm operations should be discontinued worldwide for the sake of animals, humans, and the environment, and we should rapidly evolve to eating other forms of protein that are safer for humans, including plant-based meat alternatives and cultured meat (produced by culturing animal cells),” the article continues. “Additional investment in plant-based agriculture to grow crops to feed humans rather than livestock for human consumption would feed more people while utilizing far less land and water, allowing for the preservation of vital ecosystems for innumerable species.”

“为了动物、人类和环境的利益着想，应在全世界制止工厂化农场密集圈养动物的行为。我们应快速过渡到食用对人类更安全的其他形式的蛋白质，包括植物性肉类替代品和（通过培养动物细胞生产的）培养肉，”该论文表示。“加大对植物性农业的投资，种植各种农作物，直接用来为人类提供食物，而不是用来饲养供人类消费的牲畜，这样可以养活更多的人口，同时大大减少了需要使用的土地和水，从而能够有效保护无数物种赖以生存的至关重要的生态系统。”

The article will also be published in the print publication Neuroepidemiology in July. The online version is available free to the general public worldwide.

这篇科学论文也将在7月份的印刷出版物《神经流行病学》上发表。其在线版本现在向全世界的公众免费提供。