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Originally Posted by Irace86.2.0

Eliminate? No. We don't need to eliminate all humans in order to prevent the spread of the pandemic to more humans. We change the behavior in how humans interact with each other. Likewise, we need to change the behavior in how we interact with animals, and how they interact with each other. Currently, livestock is corralled in small areas in horrible conditions with terrible air quality, terrible movement ability, often surrounded by other dead animals, standing in their own feces and urine, and then they are moved to slaughter houses where they are killed in ways that often brings animals, meat and blood in proximity to humans or where it directly contaminates the end product.

I am saying that someone should consider the science, which suggests the biggest source of pandemics is the livestock/meat industry through animal to human transmission. If someone says that they don't want to consider that science then I would find that concerning. If their motives are personal because this could mean changing their behavior to eat less or no animal products then I find that line of reasoning consistent with those who say that they don't want to modify their behavior to wear a mask or to socially distance because their motives are personal. Do I think the risks are immediately equal? No, but the reasoning is consistent, even if the assessment of immediate risk is not consistent, yet it does seem clear that there was a very big global impact in loss of lives and hits to economies from our lifestyle choices, which could have been prevented. I would hope that those who are interested in preventing the spread of this pandemic would also be interest in preventing the occurrence of future pandemics. Are you interested in preventing future pandemics?

You could say the biggest source of new diseases comes from animal to human transmission (and vice versa). However, a pandemic is directly caused by human travel in cases like covid-19. Additionally, animals used as food are not the only source of new diseases. As such, it seems that reducing global travel and urban living are probably more effective means of reducing the spread of disease in general.