Originally posted by: AllThatCritique
China believes in eating everything natural. I have Chinese friends who used to eat snake soup when they were young because their parents wanted their kids to have vitamins staight from the source. They have old Chinese books talking of great effects of snake soup. My friends fortunately grew up and take actual vitamins.
I can guarantee than even after this orthodox Chinese people won't stop eating bats, snakes, civets and we've had another one virus on our hands in a few years. The animal blackmarket is a huge part of Chinese finances and it won't go away. Corona happened inspite of SARS.
And eating worms and the likes is very common in India as well. The difference is that it's mostly tribes or tribal areas and lack of other form of food is a big reason but most countries outside look at it as delicacy.
Every country though has one disgusting thing they eat or drink. The fact that it takes literally one animal to human sublevel interaction to birth a virus with no cure is finally catching up.
That was very informative. Hope more people, like your friends, grow up and examine their choices regarding their dietary choices, its possible impacts vs their traditional beliefs.. otherwise yeah, this type of epidemics from zoonotic viruses will occur frequently in future.
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