China’s ‘wet markets’: Should they be banned?

When the first cases of COVID-19 emerged in Wuhan, China, experts blamed one of the city’s wet markets that also sold wildlife. The virus is thought to have jumped from one of the animals being sold there to humans. The Chinese government responded by shutting down wet markets across the country. Now, they’ve started to reopen amid a growing chorus calling for them to be shut down altogether. But experts say these calls for wet market bans are misguided. Today, we’re joined by Zhenzhong Si, a researcher at the University of Waterloo who studies wet markets and food security in China and Aron White, a China specialist at the Environmental Investigation Agency.

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