What can be done about third world countries and their standards of animal-human interactions?

[andywire]

Perhaps we could drop Hillary Clinton on them???

[Mircea]

Originally Posted by phinneas j. whoopee

The current covid 19 outbreak was traced to an outdoor market dealing in exotic animals with poor sanitation.

Originally Posted by Nanny Goat

They do have their own culture, rights to it, but what about other countries' rights to not have that impinge upon their right to be free from those diseases/pandemics?

Are you suggesting that an outdoor market dealing in exotic animals with poor sanitation existed at Fort Dix, New Jersey when an epidemic of swine flu occurred?

The first documented case of Spanish Flu in the US was Private Gilbert at Fort Riley, Kansas.

Perhaps we should close all forts and abandon and raze all cities with "Fort" in the name, like Fort Wayne, Indiana and Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Oh, wait, the HCOV-NH corona virus epidemic originated in New Haven, Connecticut.

Perhaps we should abandon and raze all cities that have "New" in their name, you know, like "New York."

Virus mutate. That's what they do. If you don't understand that, perhaps you need to refresh your knowledge of science.

Are you aware that there are Canine Corona Virus and Feline Corona Virus?

Perhaps we should exterminate all dogs and cats in the US, you know, just in case the virus mutates and jumps to humans and causes a pandemic.

Oh, wait, there's Bovine Corona Virus, too. We'll need to kill all cows in the US. We can drink goat's milk instead.

I almost forgot, there's a corona virus for rabbits, too. We'll have to hunt down and exterminate all rabbits.

Chickens are hardly exotic, but they have their corona virus and their own influenza virus.

You do understand that neither sanitary nor unsanitary conditions played any role in the transmission of avian flu and avian corona virus aka COVID-2 aka SARS, right?

Those were people who were around chickens feeding them and collecting eggs and they picked it up.

[bale002]

Originally Posted by phinneas j. whoopee

What can be done about third world countries and their standards of animal-human interactions?

Unbridled free trade, relocate a large swathe of manufacturing jobs to basically slave labor in countries like China, illegal immigration, subsidize mass production of corn and soybeans to feed Chinese pigs, while a large swathe of Americans sit around like Chinese pigs eating junk food and getting so obese that they succumb to viruses and other maladies.

Let's do that for 25-30 years, that should solve it.

And then do it again, just for good measure.

Good Luck!

[arctichomesteader]

We should just cut off trade with places like China. They've given us multiple disease outbreaks over the years. They've decimated our valuable native forests. They've driven the loss of jobs and drop in wages for many of our citizens. They treat their own people like dirt. There is no moral or ethical justification for the open trade with China that has existed. It exists because it benefits a small percentage of our population financially but that small portion of our population should not be dictating our policy