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User:Quercus solaris/List of economically important diseases of crops and livestock

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This is a list of economically important diseases of crops and livestock.

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Metatext:

This list might have to be hundreds of entries long to begin to approach comprehensiveness. Which doesn't make it non-useful necessarily. TBD.

The operational definition of a threshold for inclusion (that is, exactly how economically important does a disease have to be?) could be considered. The list should ideally include all important historical pestilences or murrains, even any such ones that haven't caused any epizootic episodes within the most recent two centuries.

This list is a representative example of the lamentably vast class of topic workups that are downright crucial to deeply understanding the real socioeconomic and sociopolitical facts and milieus of human life and yet tend to lack any substantively adequate and adequately readable workups to date. When I say topic workups I mean, essentially, database views from the database that is reality—database views or database queries collecting related aspects of reality into integrated and insightful discussions via analysis and synthesis, if reality were (or be, or be like, or be representable as or by) a vast database. (It doesn't matter which of those subjunctives be true; the concept applies regardless of whether shit is real or not.)

In fact this list could be tabular and each list entry could comprise a tuple, with one of the values being estimated impact in dollars (to the extent that humans can actually measure such impact accurately, at least).

Scribbled here later, before I forget again: regarding aspects of human life, especially material culture and socioeconomics, that are crucial underpinnings but don't get enough attention or exposition, at least not in various contexts where they ought to get more: a nice exemplar is what changed about grain drying in the mid-20th century and the deep combination of reasons for how it was able to change, so much and so fast, when it did. The other thought to scribble before it evaporates: if I recall correctly, this meta-theme is a chief meta-theme of Smil 2022, which I set aside a while back but will eventually pick up again. I'll wait until I'm in the right mood, durably, to resume there, which might be next week, next month, or next year; I won't know until it happens.

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Lede draft

Diseases of domesticated animals and of domesticated plants have important effects on the economics of agriculture (including principally the household and business finances of farmers, but also the agricultural policy set by national governments, and sometimes even balance of trade and government debt). They are important drivers of spending on veterinary services, pesticides (insecticides, herbicides, fungicides), and the veterinary segment of the pharmaceutical industry (for antibiotics and other drugs). They have potential to flare into matters of food security and national security. They affect border control policy via preventive bans and quarantines.

Some of these diseases are specific to certain plants or animals, whereas others may cut across many types of plants or animals. Some may have zoonotic potential (examples include anthrax, bird flus, and swine flus).

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