yes they treat animals like shit and deserve hell for this. But seriously, don't fall for the shit that bat meat caused the virus.

They are eating bat meat of worst quality since thousands of years, but exactly now, before Trump 2020 reelection, we get a Corona pandemic with perfect timing?

Come on.

Nature magazine discussing in 2015(!) why it is bad to engineer Corona viruses out of bats

But other virologists question whether the information gleaned from the experiment justifies the potential risk. Although the extent of any risk is difficult to assess, Simon Wain-Hobson, a virologist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, points out that the researchers have created a novel virus that “grows remarkably well” in human cells. “If the virus escaped, nobody could predict the trajectory,” he says.