capital@lemmy.worldtoNews@lemmy.world•Covid origins: Genetic ghosts suggest pandemic started in market
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7 hours agoWould have far less human/animal face time if we didn’t eat so much of them, don’t you think?
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Would have far less human/animal face time if we didn’t eat so much of them, don’t you think?
No doubt that’s a factor. Implied in my comment (though maybe not well conveyed) is that there would be far fewer animals in captivity if we didn’t eat them.
But what we’re concerned about in the OP and the thread is zoonotic diseases that affect humans. Those surely wouldn’t infect humans at the rate we see today if we weren’t raising them for food and therefore in close proximity to them.