Eating meat

Coronavirus is a type of disease that can occur in both animals and humans, like SARS. COVID-19 most likely began in bats or pangolins.^[1] A study undertaken by virologists found that COVID-19 is 96% similar to a variation of coronavirus found in bats.^[2] Reports have traced the earliest occurrence of COVID-19 to an animal market in Wuhan, China.^[1] At this market, many types of animals including birds, snakes and rabbits are traded illegally.^[3] It is believed that from here the disease jumped from animals to humans, perhaps being transmitted from bat to pangolin first.^[4] Without reasons to be in close proximity to animals, without people eating meat - pangolins are sold because they're a delicacy - coronavirus would not have spread. Eating meat is already incredibly bad for the environment.^[5] Now, it has caused a global pandemic.

[P1] The coronavirus pandemic began in a meat market. [P2] If we did not eat meat, the pandemic would not have began.