The Covid-19 pandemic shows we must transform the global food system | Jan Dutkiewicz, Astra Taylor and Troy Vettese

Our global, profit-driven, meat-centered food system is making us sick. We need a radical rethink

It was bats. Or pangolins. To hear common narratives about the origins of Covid-19, there is a simple causal relationship between China's consumption of wild animals and the coronavirus ravaging the globe.

Dr Anthony Fauci, the United States' top epidemiologist, told Fox: "It boggles my mind how when we have so many diseases that emanate out of that unusual human-animal interface, that we don't just shut it down." His opinion echoes a growing chorus across the political spectrum that singles out China's so-called "wet markets" as the culprit for the pandemic. The Republican senator Lindsey Graham has called the Chinese exotic animal trade "disgusting" and conservationist Jane Goodall has called for "a global ban".