Cheap meat makes future pandemics likely say scientists in South Africa

摘要

Scientists in South Africa have warned that unless we change our relationship with meat, more pandemics lookincreasingly likely in the future.The human demand for affordable meat is creating the perfect breeding ground for more diseases of this kind,scientists at the University of the Free State (UFS) in South Africa have claimed.“There will be more pandemics, and there is a feeling among some scientists that this could just be a dress rehearsalfor the really big pandemic,” said Professor Robert Bragg, a researcher in the Department of Microbial, Biochemicaland Food Biotechnology at UFS.