Chinese bats carry viruses primed to cause the next deadly pandemic (2013)

I don't know Chinese culture well enough to know if we can solve this problem through market controls (might just shift to the black market), so we should be focusing efforts on identifying and understanding viruses and bacteria that could transfer to humans so we can stay a step ahead of disease. I'm sure we're doing a lot of that now, so perhaps we just need to adjust funding.

As with most things, the "obvious solution" is the naive and wrong solution. Sadly, that type of shallow thinking is prevalent in vegan cultism.

> No more coronas, bird flus, swine flus, mad cows, salmonellas, etc.

And no humans and no human civilization... Besides, the human population has grown 3000% the past few centuries. Far more people have benefited from meat than have been hurt by it. It's why pretty much every society on earth consumes meat.

Also, technically, if "No more coronas, bird flus, swine flus, mad cows, salmonellas, etc." is what you want, we'd either have to completely cordone humanity from nature altogether or we'd have to wipe out all animals. Most zoonotic diseases aren't transmitted via meat, it's transmitted by air, spit or bites ( from animals ). So no more hiking, parks, etc? Humans also get zoonotic diseases from pets, should we ban dogs,cats,etc?

Anything that isn't on the allowed list isn't allowed as food. Then if any new virus infects your herd of beef, you can't sell it anymore. That's a strong incentive to keep your herd isolated and not hunt random wild animals.