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Following up on this issue. Rob Wallace - socialist and evolutionary biologist - is skeptical. This shows how careful we lay people really need to be. Here's what Wallace commented on Facebook: Rob Wallace <https://www.facebook.com/rob.wallace.3133?hc_location=ufi> commented on his page: "The problem with this GRAIN stab is that the genetics of the virus appear to converge on a recombination event between a bat coronavirus and one circulating in pangolins, the latter exactly the kind of animal that wet markets sell, regardless of whether or not the first cases emerged out of the Wuhan market. Clearly I'm a proponent of the notion industrial ag selects for virulent pathogens, but there is presently no smoking gun to stick SARS-2 on hog, beyond a circumstantial possibility I raised myself in January and a previous hog-specific spillover. GRAIN, which I greatly respect, also aims to have it both ways here: save wet markets and, piggybacking off my commentary, wild animals are becoming increasingly industrialized. How about we better square that circle? Why focus on exactly the kinds of object-oriented epidemiology--wild animals vs industrial livestock--I suggest we largely abandon? Instead, to better encapsulate the wide range of pathogens emerging in different parts of the periurban continuum--HPAI, Ebola, Zika, African swine fever, cornaviruses--how about we track how multiple systems of production, across wild foods and industrial production alike, are being entrained into expansive disease geographies tied to capital-led development? That SARS is splattering across host types means it's not (just) about the specific host. It's about the means by which populations of any living organism can be commoditized, turned into another reservoir beyond bats, and transported near and far, a threat to all others folded into propagating circuits of production." On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 10:06 AM John Reimann <1999wild...@gmail.com> wrote: > It seems that evidence is emerging that the novel corona virus that is > causing this pandemic originally may have jumped the species barrier to > humans on a factory farm, not in that "wet market". The most likely > candidate for such a farm is a pig farm, because pigs immune system is > genetically similar to humans. None of this is proven yet, but we as > workers must keep aware of this science. The capitalists certainly won't do > anything to stop factory farming. > > > https://grain.org/e/6437?fbclid=IwAR2mY1aX9CszAvDHYWBDeTmdljocu28nVOYlEUC3rNeaDPmRbgBhtwD_ke4#.XogylbfSSFs.facebook > > John Reimann > -- > *“In politics, abstract terms conceal treachery.” *from "The Black > Jacobins" by C. L. R. James > Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com also on Facebook > -- *“In politics, abstract terms conceal treachery.” *from "The Black Jacobins" by C. L. R. James Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com also on Facebook _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
