The CVVC aims to raise awareness as to the human health and environmental benefits of a plant-based diet.
It has as its mission statement: “The promotion of a plant-based diet to improve human health; protect the environment; facilitate social justice; and reduce animal cruelty”.
It is hard to establish with certainty which diseases jumped from other animals to humans, but there is increasing evidence from DNA and RNA sequencing, that measles, smallpox, influenza, and diphtheria, came to humans this way.
The negative effect of a meat diet on both human health and the environment is well known, and is the contemporary global driving force for the adoption of a balanced plant-based diet.
Leaving aside strong animal cruelty concerns, and threats to bio-diversity, the eating of bush meat ought to be banned outright as being a severe danger to human health.
