That was a long one but had some good info.
I didn’t know 10-20% of cancer was of viral orign. Wonder if cooking meat gives humans an advantage there. Of course, going vegetarian would bypass that altogether.
the result that mammals consuming other mammals appear to have the highest cancer risk of all diet categories is consistent with a pathogenic origin of elevated cancer mortality risk among Carnivora. Host jumping of pathogens is most likely to occur in the case of phylogenetic proximity between the reservoir prey and the predator species33, making a mammal-to-mammal transmission the most likely host jump scenario.
I’d wager that cooking can inactivate most viruses, depending on the temperature. But what you do before the heating process also matters. Cooking at home, normal cooking, can get messy. In a lot of places, people even buy freshly killed animals or kill the animals at home (usually chickens or fish).
That was a long one but had some good info. I didn’t know 10-20% of cancer was of viral orign. Wonder if cooking meat gives humans an advantage there. Of course, going vegetarian would bypass that altogether.
Bovine leukemia virus relation to human breast cancer: Meta-analysis - ScienceDirect
Viral Oncology: Molecular Biology and Pathogenesis
Possible cancer-causing capacity of COVID-19: Is SARS-CoV-2 an oncogenic agent? - ScienceDirect
I’d wager that cooking can inactivate most viruses, depending on the temperature. But what you do before the heating process also matters. Cooking at home, normal cooking, can get messy. In a lot of places, people even buy freshly killed animals or kill the animals at home (usually chickens or fish).
That’s a great point. Not all viral interaction happens from eating food. Simple not washing a surface throughly could cause something later.