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I don't understand why people eat monkey or bats? if they have all these virus or diseases in them. It's 2020 we have more food in the world than we did years ago no need to eat a bat just grab an apple.

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We're talking about a place where this is common practice.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zrv78nG9R04&feature=youtu.be

Supposedly the Chinese government is paying for the output from this sewage/gutter oil process (for combustion in power plants) in order to prevent it from ending up in the food supply chain as cooking oil. Attempts at being resourceful can have some unintended consequences/second order effects.

https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/et981n/this_is_how_...

Some people eat crocodiles, horse meat, etc. Eating cows or pigs themselves is pretty weird on itself, especially if you see how they kill and process the animal. The fact that we are used to se things is all that counts.

That being said, viruses were not transmitted by people eating bats. It was a species of cats that got infected by bats. As for cat consumption, well it is very easy to dupe somebody to eat cat meat thinking it is rabbit. That is why in a lot of developing countries when you buy rabbit meat they keep the furry head of the animal attached to the body on the bag so that you can see it is the real thing.

Good points.

In Australia, they also pride themselves on eating kangaroo meat. Can you imagine people eating a little baby Joey kangaroo?

But nobody bats an eye at this, or claim the Australians are backwards for propagating such a practice.

"Little baby Joey kangaroo" I take it you're not from Australia.

I’d rather catch a coronavirus than something like mad cow disease, anthrax, or tuberculosis, which all come from animals westerners eat.

The same reason people eat rabbits or deer and elk, despite the risk of diseases from them. It's 2020, we have more food in the world than we did years ago no need to eat a rabbit just grab an apple.

~ An Epidemiologist Who Really Hates This Bit of Othering That Always Shows Up In Outbreaks

Food is still a large share of many people's incomes. It is not surprising to me that some people may want to eat free or cheaper food, still in 2020. Some of us may have plenty of food - heck many of us have way too much. But if you travel around the world really at all you would quickly understand why some may eat non-commercially produced food.

Also, still in the US people eat animals like squirrels, raccoons or feral pork.

Or cattle and poultry. So you’d probably indeed need to become vegan

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