#but bushmeat hunting (esp for commercial trading) and traditional chinese medicine involving wild animals | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

tendercoretroglodyke · 4 years

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I hope you all know that, while the covid-19 pandemic is of course a public health issue, it is absolutely an environmental issue as well. this pandemic was a direct result of the too-close interactions humans have had with wildlife. increasingly overlapping habitats, illegal wildlife trade, bushmeat trading and consumption, all cause us to get uncomfortably close to zoonotic diseases that are often far more deadly in humans than in the animals we got them from. illegal wet markets (those that sell wild animals) must be closed down and we need to change attitudes to discourage use of wild animals in traditional medicine or in black market exotic pet trading. if nothing changes (and you know it won't), our next pandemic will be soon and it will be from animals we are entirely too close to, and it could be far more deadly

#we of course want to be sensitive to the needs of humans and traditions of other cultures #but bushmeat hunting (esp for commercial trading) and traditional chinese medicine involving wild animals #is simply unsustainable for the environment and unsafe for humans #most of the epidemics we have witnessed in our lifetimes have been from close contact with animals #i hope that people will start to take notice that the way we interact with the environment and wildlife is unsafe and must be changed #but it takes a lot to make people think past the money they can make and it takes even more to change behavior #covid-19 #coronavirus

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