2007: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-foodmarket-idUSHKG2...
2012: https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2012/12/wet-markets-in-china-...
2013: https://qz.com/141596/chinese-bats-carry-viruses-primed-to-c...
2017: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/china-ground-z...
I was more aware of this danger and I guess the lab leak theory sounds more like a sci-fi plot to me before the pandemic.
I have reflected upon it, and decided I don't care. Anyway, animals would be the last on the list of things to help if I decided to act truly ethically. It feels nice to pretend you're ethically superior though, posting photos of vegan food with an iPhone, so I won't blame anyone for it.
Meat as a staple food is literally not genocide, because an actual animal genocide would literally lead to famine. Making silly comparisons like this doesn't make your position sound reasonable.
Maybe you want to call meat eating a moral crime, and you can make that argument, but you keep pulling in these tangential human-centric concepts like "war" and "genocide" in an attempt to make the normalized meat diet seem as morally perverse as possible, but I think the hyperbole is doing the opposite. If your position is the rational one, you shouldn't come across as irrational.
The argument that there are groups of food animals that constitute peoples in the sense used in the definition of genocide and that destroying them as a people is a necessary instrumental method to meat production is...not obvious.