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It came across to me as stereotyping to just assume certain people engaged in something very specific without any evidence in order to look down on them. Furth
by anonsivalley652 7y ago
It came across to me as stereotyping to just assume certain people engaged in something very specific without any evidence in order to look down on them.
Furthermore, it's also impossible to prove where it didn't come, also without evidence, because you can't prove a negative.
- jacquesm 7y agoThat may be so, but bush meat has been positively identified as the source of quite a few outbreaks.
- dTal 7y agoAs an aside, I always found it strange that eating wild land animals is looked down upon as "bushmeat" and unsustainable and unhygienic, while eating wild sea creatures is just "seafood" (with farmed aquafauna looked down upon as the inferior product).
- jacquesm 7y agoThat's a good point. There is plenty of seafood that when not dealt with properly will happily kill you or make you at a minimum severely ill. Mussels, shellfish, oysters are best avoided unless you are very sure about where they came from and how they were prepared. Besides that, due to the liquid environment anything in the sea that is poisonous is usually so in a very potent fashion. Species jumping viruses are rare when it comes to regular fish but marine mammals are a risk.