# The Cost of Putting Humans First

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Podcast: [Public Health Insight](https://stenobird.com/podcast/public-health-insight-361186)
Published: 2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00
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Animal abuse is a predictor child abuse. Slaughterhouse locations correlate with violent crime. Over three-quarters of emerging infectious diseases trace back to how we treat animals and ecosystems. In this episode of the Public Health Insight Podcast, Dr. Hope Ferdowsian connects these patterns to a single root cause: systems built on hierarchies that reduce living beings to their financial worth. She challenges public health to stop treating symptoms, expand its moral circle beyond humans, ...

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