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Anonymous asked, "hello friend! quick correction - coronavirus did not start from wealthy people eating foreign meat, but from wet meat markets which were popularized due to constant poverty in china. it became one of the only ways to eat and farm when farming was taken by large companies and the state, so strange backyard animals became their only source as it wasnt “farm animals” it is mostly the poor, forced to eat the meat to survive, by the rich!"

There’s one source that says exotic meat farmed for the rich were prior vectors for things like SARS, and it’s looking like the same practices might be responsible for Covid-19…

My source is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPpoJGYlW54 and roughly at time index 7:21 the expert says that the wildlife meat market is primarily with the rich and powerful.

Not the poor.

While it was initially a move produced by food scarcity, the wet markets’ use of exotic animals for a wealthy minority is what caused Covid-19 to become a thing. China’s poor, for example, can’t afford a side of Pangolin. They might visit the same wet market where it’s sold, but they’d never get to eat it.

Similarly, the exotic meat farms are no longer owned by people living in poverty. It’s highly funded and industrialised now.

The blame for this lies in the rich. Not the poor.

23/03/2020, 20:27 with 10 notes #Dear Nonny #correction incoming #let's learn together.#Anonymous

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