can *.flu spread to plants?
go vegetarian!
go vegetarian!
But it's just a completely unhelpful comment. Humanity as a whole is not going to go vegetarian, let alone vegan. Proposing it as a solution is just pushing an agenda.
I do think it is entirely practical and possible that that most of humanity could go vegan some time in the future. Reducing the risk of disease is just one of many reasons why it would improve the world. If it is an economically superior solution then eventually that is the way the world is likely to head.
How's this for a more incrementally useful statement? Reductions in livestock and meat consumption would be likely to reduce the incidences of these type of diseases - therefore it is something we should look to minimise. It isn't an all or nothing proposition.
You would think the original mutation could easily have happened in circumstances that are different from the current means of transmission.
Either way it is a pretty safe bet the original pig wasn't being kept as a pet or for milk or eggs.
i'm too selfish to care about what the rest of the world eat ... if you regard my post as a solution, fine, that's my solution to avoid *.flu -- for my selfish self
well, enough of myself
can you come up with better solution? something creative is even better, much better than critical things you said about how unhelpful/unfeasible one's solution is.
sorry if my comment hurts your ego
There are people who already have issues getting enough iron and protein. This problem would only be exacerbated by a pure vegetarian diet.
Furthermore, we do not have an issue producing food for people. We have an issue convincing people to produce food for people. That is, most of the people who starve do so because they cannot afford food, rather than because food is too expensive. This is not a problem of too little food production, because farmers can barely support themselves in places.
This is not to say that reducing meat consumption is not a bad thing, just that it would probably not solve all the worlds problems (or even the food-related ones).
On balance I think it takes less cleverness to be a healthy vegetarian than it does than a healthy meat eater. I'm not a vegan so I can't comment in detail but if the misconceptions about vegetarianism are anything to go by I'd say the difficulties are pretty much all BS. And of course if society was vegan it would be trivial to find all the foods you needed regularly cause they'd be everywhere.
> Like it or not, the human colon is too short for a generic vegan diet; we evolved to eat meat.
The opposite argument actually works better. Could humans live on a 'generic' carnivore diet? It is just as easy to argue that we evolved to eat plants.
But if course that isn't how evolution works. We didn't 'evolve' to do anything but to further our genes. We didn't evolve to drive cars or use computers but here we are. Maybe we evolved to die early so there would be more food for our grandchildren. Evolution can be a rough guide but now we have science which favours a plant diet.
> There are people who already have issues getting enough iron and protein. This problem would only be exacerbated by a pure vegetarian diet.
People who are on the edge of starvation will benefit from any extra source of calories or nutrition. In the long term though the most efficient way to provide this would be via plants or perhaps even artificial means in some cases.
> Furthermore, we do not have an issue producing food for people.
Fair point. However the cheaper it is to produce food the more likely it will find it's way to the poorest of people.
Not to mention that livestock-spread diseases are just a drop in the bucket in the grand scheme of horrible ways to die via epidemic.
Anyone care to dispute the notion that vegetarians live healthier lives than meat eaters? Anyone care to provide an argument that eating meat is good for humanity either collectively or individually?
> Not to mention that livestock-spread diseases are just a drop in the bucket in the grand scheme of horrible ways to die via epidemic.
Unsupported and almost certainly wrong.