The truth portrayed in this cartoon holds the key to understanding the current coronavirus pandemic - and to prevent the next, more fearsome viral plague that is surely incubating among the billions of chickens, pigs and cattle crowded into the worlds factory farm system.

This pandemic - and all the contagious scourges portrayed in the drawing - are urgent messages from the animals saying, "Enough! We are not your food! If you keep confining us to raise, slaughter and eat, you will face repeated viral pandemics, each more destructive than the next."

"Homo sapiens, you are not carnivorous apes. Go back to the whole, plant-based foods your body was designed to run on and all will be well - for you and for us and for the Earth on which we all depend."

"I have to say something about the origin of this scourge that we are facing. Now this is not a random event. This came form a common theme that you've heard me and others talk about. It has to do with the confinement and slaughter and eating of animals! We are plant-eating creatures and we repeatedly seem to violate that natural reality with all the cows, the pigs and chickens we eat."

"In Asia, they have a long history -- I'm not blaming folks in Asia -- I'm just narrating the chronology here. They have a long history of eating anything that moves. And they may come from centuries of starvation and I'm not condemning that. But what it has devolved into now are these dreadful wet markets in Asian countries and these poor wild creatures -- the bats, the scaly anteaters, the pangolins, the ducks and salamanders and the snakes and the fish are all kept in cages (fish are kept in tanks, of course), stacked on each other. And the bats on top defecate on the pangolins down below and the pangolins get the virus that mutates in their body -- they become the intermediate host. And people eat these pangolins -- these beautiful, scaly anteater creatures!

"But people eat bats themselves! And apparently, in China and in Asian countries, people go into the caves and they pull these cave bats off the walls! Well, bats naturally are teeming with viruses! There are so much guano (excrement) and close contact in those caves; they are great incubators for viruses. So each of these bats they yank off the walls or snare in the air are full of viruses!"

"And.. so what must have happened?"

"Because people like to put parts of bats, their heads and muscles and wings into soups and stews -- it's an ancient tradition there -- well, you can say with some precision, going backwards in this epidemic, 6 months ago (or) 8 months ago, in the wet market in Wuhan, China, some man or woman took a bat out of a cage while it was still alive or a dead one, put it onto a chopping block. And a man or woman took a nice sharp cleaver and butchered the bat to sell it to somebody who wanted to put it in their stew. And when that cleaver came down and split that bat in half, ... well, it ruptured open its bladder and its intestines.. and bat urine full of viruses and bat feces full of viruses, sprayed all over that person.. on their face.. whatever.. they wiped it away.. they inhaled the viruses who got into their system and into their lungs.. and they developed that cough and they started coughing it out.. and that was patient zero! And we are now all dealing with the repercussions of that.. and you know.. we can trace that all the way back to that one fateful cleaver blow.. that changed the course of human history!"

".. and this is a message from the animals.. another message.. the same ones that we are getting from the.. -- because in the West, we do the same thing -- remember the SARS virus, it was a pig virus that comes out of these confinement operations where they put thousands of hogs or cattle -- these are all virus factories, virus incubators when you confine animals like this. And we can't be shocked when these exotic viruses and infections erupt from unnatural and inhumane installations that keep these animals together."

"And so the bats are telling us, the pangolins are telling us, the pigs are telling us, the cows are telling us, "Stop eating us! We are not your food! If you confine us and eat us, you are violating the natural law and it's gonna come back on you and naturally, that's what this coronavirus is really all about."

"And so all we have to do is go to our natural diet. The bats are telling us, "We are not your food, you eat rice and beans and greens and fruits and vegetables, you'll be fine and healthy, we'll be fine and healthy, we'll be fine and healthy.""

"Don't go into bat caves and take the bats for food. They are not our food."

"Let's eat a healthy whole food plant-based diet. And this will all go away. This will be be the last animal based viral epidemic that we'll have to face. That's the real message here and it's not being mentioned in the media here. But we need to talk the reality about the message behind this epidemic. And it's another Western Union telegram from the animals, saying "Let's live in peace. You homo sapiens, you go back to your plant-based diet and you don't have to go through stressful times.""