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Partially agreed about the vegan part. I wasn't trying to get too technical. However disease transmission mostly seems to occur via eating meat rather than milk
by dejb 17y ago
Partially agreed about the vegan part. I wasn't trying to get too technical. However disease transmission mostly seems to occur via eating meat rather than milk or eggs.
I do think it is entirely practical and possible that that most of humanity could go vegan some time in the future. Reducing the risk of disease is just one of many reasons why it would improve the world. If it is an economically superior solution then eventually that is the way the world is likely to head.
How's this for a more incrementally useful statement? Reductions in livestock and meat consumption would be likely to reduce the incidences of these type of diseases - therefore it is something we should look to minimise. It isn't an all or nothing proposition.
- scott_s 17y agoI got the impression that in this cases, the disease isn't spread through eating pigs. Rather, it's the fact that pigs and humans are living in close proximity to each other that allowed a flu strain to evolve that targeted both species. Hence my comment about livestock.
- dejb 17y agoI'm seeing a lot of contradictory indications in the news. 'China bans pork from US/Mexico', reports that 'properly cooked' pork is fine. You would think the original mutation could easily have happened in circumstances that are different from the current means of transmission. Either way it is a pretty safe bet the original pig wasn't being kept as a pet or for milk or eggs.