Italy's in shut down

jendan

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Mixed Farmer
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Northumberland
The most recent outbreak in Beijing is reported to have come into the country in European fish imports. Let's not be too quick to jump to conclusions, but I certainly wouldn't be throwing any stones from our (glass?) houses.
The first news report i saw this morning,im sure it said a "wet" market in Beijing. I think it was later altered to "wholesale" market, and then after "traced back to European salmon". I wouldnt believe a word they say.
 

Cowabunga

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Ceredigion,Wales
Spoke to a friend yesterday who bought some fancy salmon from Tesco and at home, upon inspecting the package, saw that it came from China. It went straight in her bin, unopened. In light of the current news, I reckon she was more wise than wasteful.
 

DrWazzock

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Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
Quite an outbreak at an abattoir in Germany. Seems to favour cold moist environments with people working close to one another. Summer has probably helped the population at large.
 
Yes, I think the world as a whole is going to ask authorities in many countries about practices such as eating wild animals that are potentially high risk. Even though there are cultural issues.

I agree, eating wild animals is probably high risk.

You could say keeping hundreds of thousands of animals in the same confined air space is also asking for an emerging strain of avian influenza or something to get stuck into the human population given that such an environment must be a disease breeding ground?
 

Cowabunga

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Ceredigion,Wales
How does one raise the production costs of pangolins caught in the wild? Need they use an RSPCA-approved trap?
They would need to test and certify each pangolin before and after slaughter if it were up to me. Any coronavirus would render it to be rendered.
I would ban the widespread use of rat meat in Vietnam. I mean, how disgusting. They are now quite capable of growing and eating tidy food and hunting rats in the rice paddies and disposing of them in field digesters as being the waste rubbish that they are. Why eat the damned filthy rubbish unless you are literally starving otherwise?
 

Ashtree

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Spoke to a friend yesterday who bought some fancy salmon from Tesco and at home, upon inspecting the package, saw that it came from China. It went straight in her bin, unopened. In light of the current news, I reckon she was more wise than wasteful.

Did she not have a bottle of chlorine in the house?
The magic cure all for bad hygiene.
 

Still Farming

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Mixed Farmer
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South Wales UK
This was one of the first threads on the pandemic.
Here we are now:-
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