• yesman@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    The problem isn’t that we pet birds, it’s that we eat them. Or more specifically we gather them in huge, unsanitary populations in close contact with humans as they are raised and slaughtered.

    This reminds me of how people think AIDS spread from other primates through bestiality, when bushmeat was the correct answer. I guess it’s easier to imagine bestiality than the consequences of carnism.

    *not vegan, Just finding it harder and harder to dismiss them.

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      4 months ago

      I guess it’s easier to imagine bestiality than the consequences of carnism.

      It’s because we spread HIV within our own population more commonly with sex than cannibalism

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      4 months ago

      But domesticated birds are not good carriers of influenza, specifically. Unlime wild birds, they do get sick. Otherwise, I totally agree.