We will either change our behavior and start treating animals with respect, quit the cruelty and mass slaughter, or human civilization will collapse. Pandemics will continue and become even more deadly.13 As we switch from our current agriculture infrastructure to a plant-based diet, in addition to saving the environment, we will ultimately save ourselves. This change is going to occur because of economics, not the sudden realization that it is immoral to continue killing plants and animals.14
