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How do you get a virus from a cooked animal?

I get that vegans want to push their agenda but this wouldn't help stop virus spread. It's easy to safely eat animals, you just cook them.



I suspect that in practice, decreasing the culture of meat consumption would have more of an impact on the emergence of zoonotic diseases than increasing the culture of food safety.

In particular, zoonotic influenza spreads by contact with infected farmed animals, not by insufficient cooking, and E. coli spreads by animal farming contaminating plants that don't normally call for cooking.

Plus, cooking doesn't kill prions, and prions are horrifying.




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