The new argument being pushed against meat production, following in from the climate change nonsense, which has been hammered by critics, is that meat production sets humanity up for pandemics. The main proponents of this argument base their claims on Covid-19 supposedly emerging as a species jumping bug from the Wuhan wet markets.
That hypothesis is now not the leading one, and the lab leak hypothesis has taken the key spot. Yet, let’s run with it. Certainly, the less than hygienic conditions of farming and markets in Asia do raise the chances of pandemic spread. But this is not an argument against meat production, any more than road accidents on poor roads is an argument against driving cars. It means that the markets and farming in Asia has to be improved.