ReviewScience advances2022
The infectious disease trap of animal agriculture.
Review in Science advances, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
30 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 79 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
- Interdisciplinary modelling approaches for One Health in agri-food systems: a scoping review and conceptual analysis.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Wild Boar and Red Deer as Key Players in Coxiella Burnetii Circulation in the Wildlife-Livestock-Human Interface: Serological Analysis Using a Gaussian Mixture Model.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- Livestock immunomodulators as alternatives to antimicrobials - a roadmap for the fight against drug resistance.BMC veterinary research · 2026Review
- Aquatic virus transmission to humans.Nature microbiology · 2026Article
- "We Were on Our Own": Animal Slaughtering and Processing Industry Workers' Perspectives on Workplace Health and Safety During the COVID-19 Pandemic in North Carolina.New solutions : a journal of environmental and occupational health policy : NS · 2026Article
- AI Ethics Guidelines: Time to Include Animals.Science and engineering ethics · 2026Article
- Next-generation detection in bovine respiratory and enteric diseases: metagenomic and amplicon sequencing insights into microbial diversity.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2026Review
- Evidence-based opportunities to address pandemic drivers via the Pandemic Agreement: lessons from the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.BMJ global health · 2025Article
- Every Person Counts in a Fair Transition to Net Zero: A UK Food Lens Towards Safeguarding Against Nutritional Vulnerability.Nutrition bulletin · 2025Article
- Trained immunity in farm animals.Veterinary research · 2025Review
- Why is the medical profession reluctant to talk about diet change?Future healthcare journal · 2025Article
- Review
- Nothing to hide: How governments justify the adoption of ag-gag laws.Canadian review of sociology = Revue canadienne de sociologie · 2025Article
- "With every big outbreak, we lose staff": The mental health impacts of depopulation on veterinarians.The Canadian veterinary journal = La revue veterinaire canadienne · 2025Article
- Pathogens and planetary change.Nature reviews. Biodiversity · 2025Article
- Broad-Spectrum Virus Elimination by Nasal Mucosa-Colonized Wild-TypeResearch (Washington, D.C.) · 2025Article
- The protein deficit myth.Revista de saude publica · 2025Article
- Sustainability of animal-sourced foods and plant-based alternatives.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Opportunities for carbon sequestration from removing or intensifying pasture-based beef production.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
1 author at 1 institution in 2 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Infectious diseases originating from animals (zoonotic diseases) have emerged following deforestation from agriculture. Agriculture can reduce its land use through intensification, i.e., improving resource use efficiency. However, intensive management often confines animals and their wastes, which also fosters disease emergence. Therefore, rising demand for animal-sourced foods creates a "trap" of zoonotic disease risks: extensive land use on one hand or intensive animal management on the other. Not all intensification poses disease risks; some methods avoid confinement and improve animal health. However, these "win-win" improvements alone cannot satisfy rising meat demand, particularly for chicken and pork. Intensive poultry and pig production entails greater antibiotic use, confinement, and animal populations than beef production. Shifting from beef to chicken consumption mitigates climate emissions, but this common strategy neglects zoonotic disease risks. Preventing zoonotic diseases requires international coordination to reduce the high demand for animal-sourced foods, improve forest conservation governance, and selectively intensify the lowest-producing ruminant animal systems without confinement.
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