• bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        Not keeping them in cramped filthy conditions like those that exist in Chinese meat markets. Particularly small mammals which are genetically similar enough to humans for a virus to jump species. There’s a reason all the nastiest plagues have come from people trying to eat bats and monkeys.

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          1 year ago

          Factory farming suffering animals, especially chicken live under exactly those conditions, just that we dont see them

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoonosis

          Bats are not genetically similar to us, but the same as birds they can carry diseases over distance.

          Lots of diseases came from “regular western farm animals”