Bill Maher speaks out about wild animal markets, trafficking in wild animals, and our system of raising and slaughtering animals for food: “Big AG”.  He says what I have been waiting to hear from someone whose voice can be heard loud and clear.  God bless you, Bill Maher.

Just some of what Maher has to say.  Powerful to hear it all straight from him:

Torturing animals is what got us into this mess.  That’s the lesson we keep refusing to learn: that you can’t trash the environment, including animals. and not have it come back and kill YOU!

America’s factory farming is just as despicable as a wet market and just as problematic for our health.  Factory farms have a lot more lobbyists, but ecological time bombs tick the same.  …. Most, if not all, infectious diseases are zoonotic, meaning they start in animals and jump to humans.

We have “Ag Gag” laws that make it a crime to report the crime — and it is a crime — of animal abuse that goes on in our food industry.

If we keep producing food the way we do, you are going to get sick with something medicine cannot fix.  You don’t have to care for the sake of the animals.  I wouldn’t want to mess with anyone’s reputation as a heartless asshole.

Animal cruelty leads to human catastrophe.

There’s no such thing as keeping a wild animal pent up, but treating them well.

People should take their meandering outrage and focus it on this issue:  You keep animals in cages, be they tigers or turkeys, and look who winds up being the prisoner.