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Originally Posted by Pedestrian
The problem would have been the human consumption of wild animals and/or the confinement of different species wild animals that may not normally come into contact with each other in close proximity.
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But we should probably focus on minimizing the interactions of humans with intermediary species like parasites and eating wild animals.
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Exactly. And I really think that if China were the truly communist country that it used to be before it embraced capitalism, commerce would be highly regulated, and wet markets would not have been allowed to keep live animals in close proximity to each other, etc. etc.
And there would have been no demand for wild bats or whatever else exotic animals for humans to even buy and eat; my assumption is the desire to even buy and eat those things became a "status" thing, created by deregulation and the capitalism that they didn't use to have in China. Because eating bats wasn't (and still isn't) a common thing in China.
But hey, that's just my spin on it.