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Except bird flu won't come from wilderness, it will come from animal agriculture. The current worry is that the place it will develop mammal-to-mammal and ulti
by Pxtl 4y ago
Except bird flu won't come from wilderness, it will come from animal agriculture. The current worry is that the place it will develop mammal-to-mammal and ultimately human-to-human transmission is mink farms, and the incubator for the disease among birds is chicken farms.
Stop eating and wearing so many animal products and we'll be fine even with billions and billions of people all over the world.
Seriously, I know I'm coming off as an angry veg here, but are people blind to the fact that COVID likely came from a meat market (I mean the lab leak is also possible but the original meat-market theory is pretty likely too), and bird flu will come from meat-animal industrial farms and fur farms?
- nradov 4y agoHumans have been eating and wearing animal products since before we were even Homo sapiens. We'll be fine regardless. If the cost of using animals is an occasional pandemic then so be it, that's just the natural order of things.
- Pxtl 4y ago"Natural order of things" stopped mattering the moment we decided that starvation and infant mortality are bad things. COVID was milder than expected. The next one might not be.
- pc86 4y ago"COVID happened because we eat meat and wear leather" is a hilariously bad take.
- Pxtl 4y agopsst, mink aren't used for leather.