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The virus most likely came from close contact between animals and humans in which humans wanted to consume the animal. Virtually all of the new infectious dise
by Nbox9 6y ago
The virus most likely came from close contact between animals and humans in which humans wanted to consume the animal. Virtually all of the new infectious diseases come from animal to human transmissions, and virtually all of those come from either direct consumption of animals or from animal agriculture. The total number of animals kept for agricultural purposes, plus the conditions they are kept in, means we can expect more and more diseases to come from this industry.
Shifting our food sources away from industrial animal agriculture would significantly decrease the number of new infectious diseases we have to encounter. This looks like lab grown meat, like plant based meat substitutes such as Impossible, Beyond, and Oatly, like grass fed beef, like backyard chickens, and it looks like less beef burritos and more bean burritos.
- forgotmypw17 6y agoIt would not be the first time nature is blamed for human activity, so I am not sure what makes you so sure. Two separate papers have come out saying pretty much the same thing, that there is lots of evidence pointing to this virus being more likely engineered (by modifying existing viruses) and that each piece of evidence also matches papers put out by researchers working at the Wuhan-based virus research lab, which is also where the outbreak is thought to have begun.
- SomeoneFromCA 6y agoThe problem is though that a lot more dangerous (than Covid) pathogen, Influenza A H5N1 is waiting to jump from chicken on people, which is only possible if people come into close contact with poultry. It has happened with Pig Flu. Influenza by far is most dangerous pathogen around, it had shown what it is capable of in 1918, and it may happen again.