They've been doing it for DECADES
AMERICAN COWS ARE MUNCHING AWAY AT BUCKETS OF CHICKEN SHIT RIGHT NOW
AND IT MADE THE NEW PLAGUE
WE FED THE COWS THE BIRD DOODOO
They've been doing it for DECADES
AMERICAN COWS ARE MUNCHING AWAY AT BUCKETS OF CHICKEN SHIT RIGHT NOW
AND IT MADE THE NEW PLAGUE
WE FED THE COWS THE BIRD DOODOO
Sometimes I wonder how many deadly epidemics would have been prevented if society had just gone vegan.
Basically all of them afaik. Most of the big epidemics spread to humans from 1. domesticated animals 2. kept in very close/tight quarters
I would give the caveat that it's almost all diseases after the 19th century or so given that most of the epidemics before that were caused by people, like, drinking water with literal human shit in it.
To the best of my knowledge that isnt really accurate. For one, smallpox, the biggest recurring epidemic disease, is from rats. Bubonic plague is from fleas on rats drawn to cowfeed and other grains stored in large quantities. Chickenpox, cowpox etc also from livestock.
For another, the water in pre-1800s Europe was much more drinkable than is commonly assumed. You might get worms, but generally you dont see the massive outbreaks of dysentry until urban populations explode from the 1600s on. Generally pre1800s epidemics are a complex mixture of lack of nutrition and a disease transmitted from some animal, rather than just "people drank their own shit".
Rare-cooked meat is the primary infection vector for toxoplasmsa gondii
woah really? I thought it would be cleaning litter boxes or something else involving cat feces
something like 80% of france has toxo just from steak tartare, I think they're equally liable to infect
Unless you're cleaning your cat's litter box on the counter you prepare your food, nope. Eating pork is the main way that people get infected.