I filmed a Kung San chap speaking (I wanted the clicks) about an arts centre during which he takes the piss out of people around him. The San fascinate me. Most diverse people genetically.
Maybe all the early ‘umans ate all the really nice stuff and we’re left with the dross 🤔
Yep, piss-taking as a form of social control (EEE Pritchard!). Among the Kung status can be achieved through giving. I got stuck a couple of times driving in the desert and ended up leaving the vehicle in a San guy's compound. I gave him a fairly chunky note and within seconds it was in the hands of his three-year-old. Delightful!
I read today that 70% percent of disease comes from animal agriculture, including one some might know called SARS-Covid19.
It’s not through ‘animal agriculture’, it’s through the capture of inappropriate wild animals that themselves have been exposed to various wild viruses via contact with other wild animals. As in the trading and slaughter of pangolin purely for their scales* for use in health treatments that don’t do anything, the pangolin live in areas with large bat populations, and people get infected by contact with both the pangolin and with bat guano, which is also harvested in large quantities as fertiliser.
It’s in the illegal ‘wet markets’ that the main spread among humans occurs; the animals aren’t being bred, in an agricultural sense, they’re being trapped in the wild for financial gain and human greed, not for any calorific value.
*I’ve often wondered if money can be made from gullible idiots by collecting hair clippings and nail clippings from the various salons, grinding them into powder and selling it as ground pangolin scales and rhino horn, it’s exactly the same material, keratin.
That’s high profile media wise (and something I’d like to see an end to for many reasons) … but animal farming pushing into wild areas (especially pigs) is the most likely way for viruses in wild animals to hop towards man… via domesticated animals.
