• 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”