Beijing Daily
Interview with Zhong Nanshan, head of the high-level expert group of the National Health Commission, the case is concentrated in two districts of Wuhan, and the probability of animals is the source of infection
"From the initial epidemiological point of view, the possibility of the virus being transmitted to humans through wild animals is relatively large." Academician Zhong Nanshan's answer in an interview with the media on the source of the new coronavirus confirmed the conjecture of some people.
Tracing back to its origins, the first infected people came from a seafood market in Wuhan that also sold a variety of wild game, and a wild game menu in a market in Wuhan that was spread on the Internet made people take a breath of cool air: this is also too wild to eat. From peacocks to pheasants, from civets to hedgehogs, wolves are divided into live wolf cubs and wolf cub meat. Looking all the way down, I kept saying: "This can even be eaten."
"Zoonotic diseases"
Sars 17 years ago is not far from now. According to genetic mapping analysis, the virus came from the civets and then transmitted to humans.
As soon as the matter came out, the wild game dengshi, which was once loved and sought after by people, was beaten into the cold palace, like a street rat that everyone shouted and beat, completely ignoring the "love face" on the table that day. But people forget the pain much faster than expected, and soon the wind of eating wilds blows again.
Liang Congjie, then a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and president of the Association of Friends of Nature Conservation, reflected: "The epidemic of sars virus can be seen as a warning from nature to human beings. ”
At present, there are many "zoonotic diseases" in the world, many of which are produced by humans in the process of preying on and eating wild animals. When examining the origin of AIDS, scientists have found that the indigenous people of the African jungle often catch a local long-tailed monkey and drink its blood, which is likely to be the source of AIDS; the discolored Ebola virus also comes from primates; and the cause of Lyme disease, which can seriously damage the nervous system, comes from Borrelia burgdorferi transmitted between more than 30 wild animals and domestic animals, such as rats, deer, rabbits, and fox wolves.
Although the disease comes from wild animals, the real perpetrators are precisely humans themselves, because many wild animals, as long as they do not eat, the risk of contracting the virus will be significantly reduced.
Weird psychology
In 1999, the Conservation Department of the State Forestry Administration conducted a survey of 1381 restaurants operating edible wild animals in 16 provincial capitals and 5 prefecture-level cities, and the results showed that 46 species of animals made into food came from the wild.
In a post bar called "Wild Game Bar", many "Wild Game Exchange Groups" are looking for group friends, and October 2019 is the time when the Plague in Inner Mongolia is making people panic, but there are still people in the community who are looking for mountain rats to eat.
In the era of ru mao drinking blood and slash-and-burn farming, wild animals were indeed the main food source for humans, and many animals became domestic animals in the long process of domestication. But since entering the agricultural civilization, especially in modern times, most people have stopped eating wild game, and they will not try their best to spend a lot of money to buy wild game.
Among those who support eating wild game, the mentality of sellers and catchers is easy to speculate, which is nothing more than "a knife on the head of the word", but why do buyers just regard life as dust and mustard, and "eat" their hearts do not change?
It's certainly far-fetched to say it's delicious. Our ancestors screened and bred species that could be domesticated, which was bound to be selected and eliminated according to taste, and there was no reason to raise up the unpalatable and release the delicious ones. As for the nutritional value, there is no data support, especially there are a variety of parasites on wild animals, long-term eating, even if you can't eat serious diseases, using it for health is definitely nonsense.
But why eat it? Basically, it can be summarized into two points, one is lack, and the other is Xuan.
Eating wild game, to some extent, is that it is scarce and scarce. If pangolins and macaques are all over the streets, flooding in many communities, relying on caring people to rescue "wandering pangolins" and "stray macaques", pigs and sheep live in deep mountains and old forests, catch a net, set, and then come to the table through black market trading, then today's wild people are invited to go back to the "Five Visceral Temple" at a high price and do not know who it is.
This is an extremely naïve mentality. In essence, it is a kind of ideological root with driving a Mercedes-Benz car into the Forbidden City to pose and show off, "I don't want to be good to me, I don't want others to have me."
Another reason is even more absurd, purely because of "Xuan". To some extent, traditional Chinese culture places too much emphasis on "nature", and in the process of dissemination, it is even alienated into a kind of "metaphysics". The typical representative is the "medicine primer", the child's urine is the simplest and easiest to obtain, the difficult ones such as the cold incense pills taken by Xue Baochao in "Dream of the Red Chamber", is to be "white peony flower, white lotus flower, white hibiscus flower, white plum blossom flower flower each twelve two years of study, and with the same year's rain season rain, white dew season dew, frost season frost, small snow season snow twelve dollars each plus honey, white sugar and so on" made; "Yang Fu Performing Arts" Liu lang Yang Yanzhao coma, the national hand master prescribed the medicine primer is the enemy Empress Xiao's sideburns of the three hairs called " Female Dragon Hair".
After all, the novel is a novel, but in reality, there are people who believe in this evil, believe that tiger bones go to rheumatism, believe that eating wolves can strengthen their courage, believe in form complements, and even produce such a strange and terrifying way of eating such as eating live monkey brains and swallowing snake blood raw.
In short, based on these two mentalities, eating wild animals becomes more like a sense of ritual, good taste and body supplement dare not say, psychological satisfaction in their hearts is worth the money.
Finally, we would like to quote Mr. Liang Congjie's admonition: "The ecological balance of nature is like a big net, each species is a meridian and latitude on the net, and the extinction of any species will cause holes in this big net, and any hole is absolutely dangerous for human beings." ”