Summary Of Chapter 11: Lethal Gift Of Livestock
10- Chapter 11: Lethal Gift of Livestock
A stable source of food like livestock can have a lot of negative consequences. Although food production spread at unequal rates, many people gained access to it right away. Naturally, it seemed like a good thing because the population size was increasing while the supply of food was slowly getting lower. This allowed people to gain access to a variety of foods from plant and animal domestication. However, what those people didn’t know was that human diseases were linked to animal origins. In the text it states, “Hence when we domesticated social animals, such as cows and pigs, they were already afflicted by epidemic diseases just waiting to be transferred to us” (Diamond 198). As mentioned in the book,
A stable source of food like livestock can have a lot of negative consequences. Although food production spread at unequal rates, many people gained access to it right away. Naturally, it seemed like a good thing because the population size was increasing while the supply of food was slowly getting lower. This allowed people to gain access to a variety of foods from plant and animal domestication. However, what those people didn’t know was that human diseases were linked to animal origins. In the text it states, “Hence when we domesticated social animals, such as cows and pigs, they were already afflicted by epidemic diseases just waiting to be transferred to us” (Diamond 198). As mentioned in the book,