Viruses from animals human transference

[justasking111]

With sars, swine flu, avian flu, now coronivirus. Are we with our demands for meat creating the perfect storm by demanding cheap meat, therefore reducing the quality of the meat produced and thus risking our lives??

Absolutely yes.

Coronavirus is believed to have potentially originated from pangolins and SARS is possibly from bats, neither of which is routinely stocked in Asda.

I don't think demands for cheap meat have much to do with it and it's more to do with the ever shifting evolution of bacteria and viruses which adapt in order to find viable hosts.

We kept hens, ducks, geese, guinea fowl for years on our small holding, they were our friends really, we enjoyed their eggs and their company when out in the garden. The geese enjoyed pulling the washing off the line dismantling the wiring in the tractor which was a pain but they would snuggle around you when you sat down in the garden. The guinea fowl would come in through an open window stroll around the kitchen demanding food. This is the perfect way to live imo. But industrial farming demands are different.

When avian flu hit us we had just sold our place, the thought of our friends being locked indoors for weeks and months was just awful.

Perhaps where possible we should all keep a few animals around for enjoying/eating.