Want to Save the World? PETA U.K.’s Poorva Joshipura Tells You How in a New Book

Have you ever considered how the main crises affecting us today—including pandemics, epidemics, antibiotic resistance, climate change, and pollution—are linked to our treatment of animals? A new book by PETA U.K. Senior Vice President of International Affairs Poorva Joshipura explores this link, as well as providing readers with a roadmap for connecting the dots and finding a path forward to change these disturbing and destructive patterns. With a foreword by United Nations Secretary-General Advocate for Sustainable Development Goals Dia Mirza, Survival at Stake: How Our Treatment of Animals Is Key to Human Existence is essential reading for anyone looking to learn more about the issues facing the world and what each of us can do to change these worrying trends. Order your copy today, and be sure to share it with a friend!

To Change the World for the Better, Consider All Its Inhabitants

From tracing the origin of COVID-19 and SARS to wildlife markets in Asia and the first cases of HIV and Ebola in humans to hunting in Africa to warning about bird flu and swine flu threats and antibiotic resistance caused by factory farms and highlighting how climate change, pollution, and species extinction are linked to meat, egg, dairy, and leather production, Survival at Stake will leave you convinced that animals’ well-being is essential to our own.

Chapters also cover the link between India’s tuberculosis crisis and dairy consumption, how the use of monkeys and other animals in laboratories is a threat to public health, how deadly “sports” like dogfighting and jallikattu (cruel bull races) encourage violence to humans, and how cruelty to animals is linked to rape and other violent crimes.

It’s Joshipura’s view that if we reject speciesism—the belief in human superiority—and accept that we are also animals, irrevocably interconnected to other species (from the largest elephant to the smallest bee), and a part of nature, rather than holding dominance over it, we can take the necessary steps toward the betterment of all the planet’s inhabitants.

“Survival at Stake may be the most fascinating and troubling book you will ever read. Tracing the path that brought us HIV, COVID-19, and other killers, it shows exactly how to protect against future threats. More than a wake-up call, it is an alarm bell for environmental and health risks, along with a well-mapped escape route. The real gift of this book is its optimism. It shows how the steps that protect our health and those that protect our planet and the animals with whom we share it are one and the same.”

—Dr. Neal D. Barnard, president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Washington, D.C.

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