Uh… yeah? Where I live you can buy vaccines for your livestock at the general store. Treating livestock with antibiotics on the other hand is stupid and big ag really needs to stop doing it.
Isn’t that how these diseases are generated in the first place?
No, livestock diseases were a problem long before vaccination. In fact it’s been hypothesized that the reason Europeans killed off Native Americans with disease instead of the other way around is that European livestock spread so much disease that it meant Europeans carried and were immune to a wide variety of diseases.
As for why livestock diseases are so common, it’s probably due to the obvious - the cramped conditions, often in close contact with other animals. Think of the classic Chinese wet market with animals from many different places stacked in cages on top of each other with fluids flying all over. That’s the real bio weapons lab.
Are we supposed to vaccinate all the livestock? Isn’t that how these diseases are generated in the first place?
I’m pretty sure the carnist holocaust will continue pumping out new variants.
Uh… yeah? Where I live you can buy vaccines for your livestock at the general store. Treating livestock with antibiotics on the other hand is stupid and big ag really needs to stop doing it.
Yes…? We’ve been vaccinating livestock for relevant diseases since 1879, starting with Chicken Cholera.
https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object-groups/antibody-initiative/veterinary
No, livestock diseases were a problem long before vaccination. In fact it’s been hypothesized that the reason Europeans killed off Native Americans with disease instead of the other way around is that European livestock spread so much disease that it meant Europeans carried and were immune to a wide variety of diseases.
As for why livestock diseases are so common, it’s probably due to the obvious - the cramped conditions, often in close contact with other animals. Think of the classic Chinese wet market with animals from many different places stacked in cages on top of each other with fluids flying all over. That’s the real bio weapons lab.
Given how much antibiotics they pump into livestock it wouldn’t be that weird.
But yeah, less intensive animal farming would likely also reduce spread & impact.