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Maybe, just maybe, we should ease off on the factory farming...
It’s just such a shame all 8 billion earthlings are so addicted to food!
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There's more alt-milks than I can count. While cow's milk obviously is used to produce other things, we can drastically reduce the need for it by moving to other kinds of milk for the liquid-consumption part.
Alt milks are usually ultra processed and quite unhealthy compared to regular milk. Not sure this is a viable alternative.
It is ultra processed in name, not nutrition.
By the way, humans are the only species drinking the milk of another animal, or after childhood.
Is there a significant chance of a human crossover stemming from this cow outbreak? Are the influenza virus targets in cows similar to those of humans, that adaptations for one host would be useful for the other? Is the large population size (millions of cows) worrisome for viral evolution, with the high cumulative volume of mutations? Do governments not consider mass culling an option here, the way they routinely ap…
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There's more alt-milks than I can count. While cow's milk obviously is used to produce other things, we can drastically reduce the need for it by moving to other kinds of milk for the liquid-consumption part.
Alt milks are usually ultra processed and quite unhealthy compared to regular milk. Not sure this is a viable alternative.
Let's keep livestock in poor conditions and give them antibiotics to survive, then complain about the consequences
Are antibiotics suddenly a factor in viral infections?
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I’ve taken at least a half dozen Covid tests and have never tested positive. That would seemingly kill your conspiracy theory.
Id hazard a guess that live virus contact with people on scale is what — by chance — eventually selects a cross over strain. So virus that can be cultured into existence of out of milk presents a possible vector for that. Hence they are testing to see if they can grow the virus from milk samples.
mixing milk dramatically increases these chances. If each person drinks milk from one cow, and there are 1 million of each, then you have 1 million chances. A chance is higher if a cow has a few mutations in its viruses, or if a person has a slightly different receptor or immune system... But if you put all the milk from the 1 million cows in a mixing vat and then distribute it to the same 1 million people, now there…
Maybe, just maybe, we should ease off on the factory farming...
How would that change anything. factory farms are more likely to take biosecurity seriously and thus not allow wild bird contact.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Feedlot-1.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Confined-animal-feed...
I assure you, wild birds are around.
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