China’s intense desire to increase rations of meat sourced protein to its huge population led it to ‘factory farm’ massive numbers of pigs. This, in turn, led them to ‘stimulate’ Brazilian soybean production to feed them (example — the clearing of Amazon rainforest to raise soybeans, 70% of which goes to China). Besides contributing to ever decreasing rainfall averages in the Amazon, this, also, triggered an ongoing ‘swine flu’ virus epidemic in their pigs — and made risky levels of ‘virus research’ necessary.
Another animal protein source is wildlife — some species of which had not been allowed to be harvested, until just a comparatively short while before Wuhan became the epicenter of the Covid pandemic.
So, whether the pandemic source was a lab and/or a wet market, Chinese hunger for animal protein led to the pandemic.
Keeping in mind that soybeans are a whole protein source and, unlike most plant proteins , they provide all the essential amino acids your body needs, they could have saved much of the Amazon rainforest and prevented a major pandemic if they had done so. At any rate, the soybeans that would have gone to the pigs can be consumed by people, since a multitude of pigs were destroyed because of the swine flu.
Note: The Earth’s weather systems are all connected. The Gobi’s is connected to the Amazon’s — the decreased South American rainfall pattern negatively impacts Asia — just as Africa’s impacts the Amazon’s. Add global warming to this fact and China’s myopic view of the world becomes more and more negatively charged karma.
Related posting:
Agribiz in the Amazon
https://samslair.blogspot.com/2019/09/shortsightedness-of-agribiz-in-amazon.html?m=1
