Virus question.

[Botany]

Is the virus coming into the meat pack plants on the animals or with the employees?

[Wounded Bear]

1. Most likely employees...

I don't think it infects any of the animals we eat.

[SCantiGOP]

2. No one has even speculated

that it can infect livestock. Cats and bats and a few exotic animals on a small scale.
I'm sure there have been tests to make sure that cattle and pigs can't carry it.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. A few dogs as well, and some lions and tigers at the Bronx zoo.

But all of the animals except the pangolins and bats got the virus from people, didn't get very sick or spread it to each other, and apparently their viral load is too small to re-infect people.

[SCantiGOP]

5. forgot the lions and tigers

I'm never eating them anymore

[Botany]

6. Not as an infection of the animal but could it be on their bodies or their carcasses

Normally this would be a FDA problem but with fucktard in power who knows what is up.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. The employees. They have to work very close together.

The virus isn't spread by the animals and we don't have to worry about eating meat from the packing plants. The people who have to worry are the people who work in them.

[secondwind]

7. COVID 20 is just down the street, they say.. and the asshat has already cut funding for the research

[Flaleftist]

8. I figured it was crowded conditions and not so great sanitation, just like prisons.