I just dont get what is so egregiously different about these markets that justify articles be written about banning their practice.
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Have you ever been to a farmers market where wild animals in cages were killed, cleaned, and their meat sold to customers? I didn’t think so.
The meat in the Farmers Market I go to is wrapped in paper and then plastic, so you can cook it or put it in your freezer. All the dressing of the meat was done in a well regulated, and closely monitored slaughterhouse. The chicken might not be washed in chlorine like the stuff in the grocery store, but it was raised under regulated conditions by people who knew they had to meet stringent western animal production regulations.
This is hard to watch, but it will answer your question: https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=Y7nZ4mw4mXw&fbclid=IwAR24obtrSJ7XZ8UFXvb5E7n0oXF2V5LfjZRFojDd5_orJ98THK7hFwXx1NQ
I’m not an expert at all but I would assume that a lot of these “wet markets” in Asia peddle in many hunted or trapped wild animals so there’s little control, testing or health regulation, as opposed to a farmer that has to adhere to health guidelines and procedures if they’re raising/slaughtering/selling meat for consumption.
I’ve never seen any live animals at a US farmers market. Asian wet markets have cages of diverse kinds of wild animals, things like chickens, ferrets whatever. All alive and next to/on top of each other’s cages.
This puts the customers not only in direct contact with these live animals, but also the animals in contact with each other. It’s a perfect little Petri dish for viruses to get into humans. Even if the virus is too different to get directly into humans there can be some other beast that can serve as an intermediary.
Combine this with the insane population density in eastern China and you have pandemics waiting to happen.
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