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Yet another reason to move to a plant-based lifestyle. Covid came from some folks in China using exotic animals for some purpose. Now a new variant seems inevit

Yet another reason to move to a plant-based lifestyle. Covid came from some folks in China using exotic animals for some purpose. Now a new variant seems inevitable from animal populations. Is it worth the burgers and coats?

RobertDeNiro 6y ago
You're being downvoted for no good reason. Mass farming is what brought us here. This will keep happening, unless we change our behavior.
- Aaronstotle 6y ago
  Wet markets and mass farming are two different beasts
  - thehappypm 6y ago
    Are they though? Mass farming puts humans into orders of magnitude more contact with animals than wet markets. In the case of covid, a wet market led to the disease. There are plenty of cases — just about the majority of plagues — where a domesticated animal led to disease
    - to11mtm 6y ago
      In some ways the dangers are different, perhaps more manageable in some cases. For wet markets, it's the unknown from nature. In the case of Domesticated markets, it is more typically an issue either from failures in procedure (i.e. e.coli/listeria/salmonella) or because of over-industrialization (Mad Cow Disease)
arkitaip 6y ago
You have to love the morons who downvoted you when it's painfully obvious that eating meat is the cause of so much health and environmental issues on the planet. For most people here, it's not even that big a deal to switch to a plant-based diet or mostly plant-based diet. Better to adapt now rather when the double or triple digit taxes start coming for our meat-eating asses.
- bamboozled 6y ago
  The true origin isn’t known. Maybe escaped from a lab, we don't know yet.
  - delecti 6y ago
    And maybe it was aliens, we don't know yet. But it's not really helpful to suggest random theories without a shred of evidence on the off-chance that they might be accurate, because that rabbit hole has no bottom.
    - bamboozled 6y ago
      People have really overacted to my comment. It’s also “not helpful” to just dismiss the truth. Without China cooperating and trying to save face, we don’t truly understand the origin of this virus and how it initially spread so well. I responded to a post that said “we need to go plant based to avoid these things happening”. Well going vegan won’t do so any good if this was released from a laboratory?

RobertDeNiro 6y ago

You're being downvoted for no good reason. Mass farming is what brought us here. This will keep happening, unless we change our behavior.

Aaronstotle 6y ago
Wet markets and mass farming are two different beasts
- thehappypm 6y ago
  Are they though? Mass farming puts humans into orders of magnitude more contact with animals than wet markets. In the case of covid, a wet market led to the disease. There are plenty of cases — just about the majority of plagues — where a domesticated animal led to disease
  - to11mtm 6y ago
    In some ways the dangers are different, perhaps more manageable in some cases. For wet markets, it's the unknown from nature. In the case of Domesticated markets, it is more typically an issue either from failures in procedure (i.e. e.coli/listeria/salmonella) or because of over-industrialization (Mad Cow Disease)

arkitaip 6y ago

You have to love the morons who downvoted you when it's painfully obvious that eating meat is the cause of so much health and environmental issues on the planet. For most people here, it's not even that big a deal to switch to a plant-based diet or mostly plant-based diet. Better to adapt now rather when the double or triple digit taxes start coming for our meat-eating asses.

bamboozled 6y ago
The true origin isn’t known. Maybe escaped from a lab, we don't know yet.
- delecti 6y ago
  And maybe it was aliens, we don't know yet. But it's not really helpful to suggest random theories without a shred of evidence on the off-chance that they might be accurate, because that rabbit hole has no bottom.
  - bamboozled 6y ago
    People have really overacted to my comment. It’s also “not helpful” to just dismiss the truth. Without China cooperating and trying to save face, we don’t truly understand the origin of this virus and how it initially spread so well. I responded to a post that said “we need to go plant based to avoid these things happening”. Well going vegan won’t do so any good if this was released from a laboratory?