[asdff]

People eat the reservoir species for these diseases in these areas. Not much local government can do about something that has been done for all of human history. Can't exactly tell a hungry person capable of hunting for themselves to stop hunting for themselves and go without.

[gus_massa]

I agree, but it's more complicated.

Some people in the developed world like to collect mushroom, and when someone misidentify one of them can have a horrible death.

I guess some of the hunter would say:

fake quote> The morons can't get their own food and must pay someone to fish in a barrel for them.

Anyway, I agree that the lot of rules that farmer and butchers must follow improve a lot the safety of the meat we eat.

[SilentM68]

It's hard to dismiss a population's drive to eat out of hunger. When its survival is at stake sometimes there is no choice but to hunt and eat what is available. It's hard to choose between animal's survival and your own survival.

Those hotspot areas are notoriously infamous for government coups and instability being commonplace. Even so, if a large percentage of the world population is at risk, then I would hope that friendly regional authorities would have enough forethought and common sense to, at least, find alternative methods of feeding their population, including asking for help.

I totally get that there are places where "authoritarian regimes and dictatorships or fragile and failed states," standby and do nothing, because it is in their interest or corruption is the norm. But even so, being a continuous obstacle, or an indirect cause to a potential world catastrophe, be it natural or man-made while willingly refusing to do something about it, should carry permanent, serious and long-lasting consequences for any government found to be negligent.

Not trying to make lite of this situation, but in cases like these, the needs of the many must truly outweigh the needs of the, corrupt few.

Thank you for letting me in!

Sol Roth

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