b'Is Factory Farming making us sick?least 700,000 deaths each year, includingOUR TREATMENT OF 230,000 deaths from multidrug-resistantANIMALS IS MAKING US SICKtuberculosis. We are warned that this figure could increase to 10 million deaths per year by 2050 if no action is taken 6 . All over the world, our treatment of animals, both wild and farmed, is making Dame Sally Davies, UK Special Envoy onus sick. Cutting down vast swathes of Antimicrobial Resistance, said in a pressnatural habitats - often to grow feed for interview in April 2019 that the threat offarmed animals - stresses wild animals and antibiotic resistance was as great as thatbrings them in ever closer contact with from climate change, and advocatedpeople.that it should be given as much attentionCreatures who would never naturally meet, from politicians and the public. Instead,find themselves caged or killed in close it is largely ignored. Haileyesus Getahun,proximity at wet markets. Stressed live the director of the UNs Interagencyand newly killed animals cause the mixing Coordination Group on Antimicrobialof blood, saliva and faeces. Viruses jump Resistance (IACG), has described the threatfrom host to host, from wild to farmed of antimicrobial resistance as a silentanimals, from animals to people.tsunami 7 .Meanwhile, inside vast factory farm warehouses, stressed and sick animals are crammed snout to tail, standing or lying in their own excrement. Pathogens emerge, spread and grow more virulent. They can go on to infect and kill people.The history of zoonotic diseases is long and devastating but one thing is certain: there will be many more future pandemics unless we radically change the way we treat animals and the planet.An array of antibiotics used on a UK Pig farm 5'