Wendy Orent, Los Angeles, column: From bat, to pig, to you? Relax

A bat settles in a palm tree somewhere in southern China. It nibbles on a piece of fruit and later it drops part of it in a pigpen, where it is eaten by a piglet. The piglet is slaughtered. A chef who handles the meat shakes hands with Gwyneth Paltrow, who then goes back to the U.S., visits her lover, stumbles home, shakes, foams at the mouth and dies.

By: Wendy Orent,

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Wendy Orent, Los Angeles, column: From bat, to pig, to you? Relax